At the moment, interest in cloud computing is booming. As businesses continue to operate remotely, the ability to access data safely and securely, while finding new opportunities to scale up and innovate is a vital business imperative for many organizations. So much so, that Gartner predicts that cloud-native platforms will underpin more than 95 percent of new […]
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Australian companies are adopting multiple cloud platforms more enthusiastically than those in any other country, according to new research that has also flagged major deficiencies in the skills to manage them and questioned the wisdom of companies putting all their eggs in the one proverbial basket. Fully 39 per cent of Australian companies, surveyed by
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“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data,” claimed The Economist in 2017. Such is its importance, every industry has been transformed by digital technologies and, as a result, oceans of data are being continually collected. The data contained within Australia’s national critical infrastructure is of such consequence it underpins the functioning
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“Government data at rest and in motion will now be exclusively within Australia,” Minister Stuart Robert said in a speech this week. All Federal Government departments and agencies have until 30 June 2022 to comply with the Hosting Certification Framework. “All citizen data will be stored in certified data centres within Australia and any cloud
The Digital Transformation Agency has taken the first step towards replacing the federal government’s all-important data centre panel ahead of its expiry in mid-2023. The agency issued a request for information calling for feedback on a new data centre panel, which will offer “newer technology and additional products”. The DTA said the new panel will
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Data sovereignty,. privacy, cybersecurity – government agencies demand a lot from their cloud services, and ADC’s collaboration with Oracle to deploy the Dedicated Region capability in Canberra allows them to meet the federal government’s sovereign policy framework with next level offerings. To find out more, download the IBRS whitepaper in The Mandarin.
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For all the marketing clamour accompanying the public sector’s rapid transition to cloud apps and remote delivery spurred by the global pandemic, away from the public gaze a more fundamental shift in the delivery of highly secure infrastructure has been playing out. As many federal and state agencies successfully made a general leap to cloud
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Australia’s public cloud market is dotted with global and domestic players, with maturing adoption across public and private sectors. Read more in Computer Weekly.
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Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency certifies Macquarie Telecom, Canberra Data Centres and Australian Data Centres as strategic operators for hosting government data. Read more in Computer Weekly.
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The minister responsible for whole-of-government data and digital policy Stuart Robert late on Friday announced “significant progress in implementing improved protection and security for government held data”, saying the first bunch of providers had been certified to store sensitive data locally. Read more on ZDNet.
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