Continuing to innovate with cloud report 1.5 times greater cost reduction. Change is the new normal, however it’s why so many organizations are reimagining their businesses and migrating systems and applications to the cloud. And they’re doing it while their industries and business are in flux. It’s akin to a…
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Cost of a data breach hits record high during pandemic
Average total cost of a data breach increased by nearly 10 per cent year over year. Data breaches now cost surveyed companies USUS$4.24 million per incident on average – the highest cost in the 17-year history of IBM’s annual Cost of a Data Breach Report. Based on in-depth analysis of real-world data…
Read MorePublic cloud infrastructure and platform-as-a-service workloads
Puts worldwide revenue at US$400B in 2025. The combined Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS market is forecast to have revenues of US$400 billion in 2025 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28.8 per cent during the 2021-2025 forecast period. Application development and testing, structured data management, and structured…
Read MoreFour trends are shaping the future of public cloud
Global end-user spending on public cloud services expected to exceed US$480B Four new trends in cloud computing are continuing to expand the breadth of cloud offerings and capabilities, accelerating growth across all segments in the public cloud services market, according to Gartner. The four trends are: cloud ubiquity, regional cloud…
Read MorePowerlink sparks major modernisation with transition to Cloud
Supporting the business as it transitions to the new world . Powerlink is a leading Australian provider of high voltage electricity transmission services that ultimately power 5 million Queenslanders. It also operates in a sector undergoing a deep reformation. Australia is experiencing the fastest energy market transformation in the world,…
Read MoreToyota builds virtual desktops for its workforce with Nutanix
Has introduced a work-from-home program for about 13,000 employees. Japanese car brand, Toyota Motor Corp has adopted the Nutanix cloud platform to build a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment that can run 3D CAD software, delivering a new way of working for its Engineering Design Group. The car manufacturer with…
Read MoreRise of supercomputers as data generation grows in volumes
High performance computing emerges. A confluence of developments including growing volumes of data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, and the emergence of new content and data-rich applications, some of which are incorporating the use of artificial intelligence (AI), is set to drive demand for higher performance computing solutions…
Read MoreForecast spend for future of work technologies could hit US$656B
How people work is evolving, enabled by technologies and accelerated by COVID-19. Future of Work (FoW) is a fundamental shift in the work model to one that fosters human-machine collaboration, enables new skills and worker experiences, and supports a work environment un-bounded by time or physical space. A new forecast…
Read MoreQueensland Treasury Corporation overhauls data and cloud
Striving for operational excellence and mitigating risk by eliminating inefficiencies. As the central financing authority for the Queensland Government, QTC provides financial resources and services for the State. In the last financial year, it delivered A$300 million worth of returns for Government stakeholders and achieved a record A$20.5 billion issuance…
Read MoreClouds on the horizon
Manufacturers are under extreme pressure to digitise. The Manufacturing Execution Systems market has been pretty lively in 2020-21, noted Gartner. Much of the activity has been the crush of vendors rushing to embrace microservices, containerized applications and low-code/no-code development, wrote Rick Franzosa senior director analyst at Gartner. In a blog…
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