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The pace of digital transformation drastically increased in 2020 due to the onset of the pandemic. Remote working, social distancing, and the need for business continuity saw factories, offices, and even restaurants and coffee shops tapping into cloud computing. Taking our lives and our information even further online. With even more data being generated, processed, and stored, particularly by bus

The key strategic pillars of the five-year plan for 2021-2015 were published this week, following four days of private meetings between President Xi Jinping and the CCP’s top decision-making body, the Central Committee. Among other targets – such as ensuring sustainable economic growth – China will promote technological self-reliance and aim for “major breakthroughs in core technologies in key are

The data center industry continues to grow. Amazon, Google, Equinix, Digital Reality Trust, and numerous other providers can’t build their data centers fast enough, spurring investments in startups and a hefty amount of MA activity. The sector was hot before the COVID-19 pandemic, and the crisis has only increased interest as companies accelerate their migrations to the cloud.Goldman Sachs is the

The Darling Downs (Photo: Paul Budde) In October 2020, I went on a two-week tour into Queensland’s Outback, traveling through various landscapes from pastoral and agricultural lands to savanna and the desert. Leaving Brisbane, past Toowoomba, you enter the Darling Downs. This is one of the richest agricultural areas in Australia. British Botanist Alan Cunningham first explored it in 1827. H

If someone had told me five months ago that the name of the game for cloud in 2020 would be “the ability to scale,” I would probably have thought they were 10 years late. Fast-forward to now, and it seems the biggest asset for organizations is indeed the ability to scale their digital selves to meet the tremendous demand of a world where their physical self is literally constrained by social-dista

The move to cloud computing has been creating a new cyber security landscape for Australian enterprises for several years.Now with the increased complexity of hybrid cloud environments, greatly accelerated of course by COVID-19, CSIOs and CIOs with responsibility for cyber are having to rethink how they go about creating effective frameworks to ensure protection in an increasingly virtual world, w

Why Elon is smiling captured from an interview during the virtual convention of the Mars Society, Oct 16, 2020. This is an impressive list of achievements, but bear in mind that we are still in the early days of a yet-unproven technology and market in a complex geopolitical environment. The last two months have seen a flurry of Starlink activity, including the following: Bill Gates has a his

The move to cloud computing has been creating a new cyber security landscape for Australian enterprises for several years.Now with the increased complexity of hybrid cloud environments, greatly accelerated of course by COVID-19, CSIOs and CIOs with responsibility for cyber are having to rethink how they go about creating effective frameworks to ensure protection in an increasingly virtual world, w

Most tech professionals don’t need prodding to upskill — adopting new technology is just part of the appeal for working in the field. But the COVID pandemic has heightened focus and revealed needs in a few areas in particular: remote work, cloud computing, and self-learning. For proactive tech workers, self-directed projects in emerging areas can provide new career opportunities and a sense of sec