Cloud

Big data

Corporate giants expand Industrial Internet

General Electric has announced partnerships with AT&T;, Cisco and Intel to expand the industrial internet.

Cloud computing

Verizon to scout Australian cloud

John Considine, chief technology officer, Verizon Terremark.

Nate Cochrane US telco Verizon is considering data centres in Sydney and Canberra to take on Amazon in the burgeoning Australian cloud market.

Procurement

NSW to take to the cloud, develop digital strategy

NSW Minister for Finance and Services Andrew Constance seeing here in during a press conference. File

Sylvia Pennington Increasing government use of cloud computing and improving the skills of government IT workers are next on the NSW technology reform agenda.

Cloud

Cash Converters convert to cloud

Stuart Corner Retail chain Cash Converters claims to have converted technology problems into significant savings by moving its worldwide store system into the cloud.

Cloud

Canon Australia taps cloud to give consumers one photo bucket

Stuart Corner Canon Australia will soon launch a cloud image storage service to give consumers a definitive home for all the photographs they might have spread across multiple websites and computers.

Data sovereignty

Cloud providers urged to collaborate, consider 'country of storage' labelling

Stuart Corner Australian cloud computing providers are under pressure to collaborate more and even consider "country of storage" labelling.

Jobs

Victoria wants a tech-led future

Victoria Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips seen here with former Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy at the opening of the NBN Co's national operations facility in Melbourne in November 2011.

Lia Timson Victoria will overtake NSW as Australia's tech capital if its Minister for Technology, Gordon Rich-Phillips has anything to do with it.

Data sovereignty

US cloud providers to lose clients over surveillance fears

Edward Snowden's revelations appear to be impacting cloud providers.

Stuart Corner The US cloud industry could lose up to $38.7 billion over three years as government surveillance frightens customers away.

Cyber security

IBM buys Trusteer to add cloud security

IBM is paying $US1 billion for Israeli security firm Trusteer.

IBM, the world's biggest technology services company, is buying Israeli security firm Trusteer, in an effort to strengthen its security offerings.

Industry

Long technology wishlists for federal election

'If Australia was a business, there is no way it would let its best ideas and talent walk out the door to a competitor,' says Microsoft managing director Pip Marlow.

The technology industry is adamant it needs more support from the federal government, writes Sylvia Pennington.

Insurance

Demand for cloud insurance tipped to surge

Stuart Corner Revelations about the US PRISM surveillance regime and the possible introduction of mandatory data breach disclosure laws in Australia are set to drive demand for insurance against the risks created by storage of sensitive data in the cloud.

Cloud

Mining company looks to tech horizon

An aerial view of the Oz Minerals Prominent Hill open pit mine.

Trevor Clarke After substantially consolidating its data centre and IT infrastructure, copper miner OZ Minerals has now set out a five-year technology plan to drive its core mining processes.

Machine-to-machine

Nissan Leaf gives mainframe a new kick along

Nissan is upgrading its existing IBM mainframe computer to act as the backend for an online portal that connects its Leaf electric vehicle's smart technology with drivers.

Trevor Clarke Nissan is revisiting an old technology to cater for a brand new one.

Cloud risks

Insurers lag on cloud cover

Has your insurer come to grips with cloud cover yet?

Stuart Corner Cloud computing presents businesses with a new set of risks the insurance sector is finding hard to comprehend.

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Cloud

Bitter rivals Oracle, Salesforce team up on cloud

Oracle's Larry Ellison and Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at the unveiling of the new Oracle-Microsoft partnership.

Jim Finkle Oracle, the technology giant losing market share to younger firms that sell software via the Web, has signed a long-term partnership with archrival and cloud computing pioneer Salesforce.com.

The Cloud

Oracle, Microsoft forge cloud-computing deal

Oracle announces a partnership that will let business customers access some of its key products on cloud services provided by its longtime software rival Microsoft.

The Cloud

In search of the elusive private cloud

Stuart Corner A mythical beast or just a good old server farm? Stuart Corner seeks the definition of private cloud.

Cloud

CIA faulted for choosing Amazon cloud over IBM

The CIA selected Amazon over IBM to build a cloud computing service for the spy agency even though IBM's proposal carried a lower price tag, according to a government report.