Snowflake Launches Arctic: The Most Open, Enterprise-Grade Large Language Model
Snowflake Arctic adds truly open large language model with unmatched intelligence and efficiency to the Snowflake Arctic model family
Study finds 83 per cent of Australia and New Zealand SMBs concerned about economic conditions
Constant Contact’s global SMB report reveals 50 per cent of Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) businesses spend less than $15,000 per year on marketing, and 23 per cent spend less than $1,500
Neuroscience Research Australia and the Talent Development Project launch “Music and Memories”
Emerging singer songwriters collaborate with people diagnosed with dementia to create original songs inspired by real life.
Australia to avoid technical recession, but inflation to keep rate cuts off the agenda until Q4 this year: Oxford Economics Australia
Brisk population growth is expected to be the key pillar of Australia avoiding a technical recession, but the issue of inflation – as it is globally – is set to persist in 2024, with impacts across all sectors of the Australian economy.
Nozomi Networks Secures $100 Million Investment to Accelerate Mission to Defend the World’s Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Threats
Latest round includes investments from Mitsubishi Electric and Schneider Electric; spotlights demand for an OT/IoT security platform that supports heterogeneous operating environments
Constant Contact Appoints New Executives to Enable Rapid Growth in the Asia Pacific Region
Company appoints Gerard Smith and Sam Whitmore to accelerate regional growth and enhance new and existing partnerships.
Australian start-up Quasar selected by US Government-backed Catalyst Accelerator
Australian start-up Quasar Satellite Technologies (‘Quasar’) has been selected as one of seven companies – and the only international organisation – to participate in the 13th Catalyst Accelerator, a program powered by the US Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/RV).
Nearly Half Of Aussie Organisations Likely To Reduce Decarbonisation Spend If Economic Conditions Worsen
ENGIE Impact’s 2024 Net Zero Report also finds that Australian businesses are down on confidence when it comes to enacting decarbonisation strategies
Toowoomba Regional Council Enhances Route to Digital Services With Boomi
Boomi announced that Toowoomba Regional Council has implemented the Boomi platform to streamline digital services delivery to residents and drive key initiatives such as its Internet of Things (IoT) water infrastructure project.
Manly Set for Page-Turning Event in March
50 authors announced for the inaugural Manly Writers’ Festival
CSIRO spin-out Quasar’s world first Space Domain Awareness launch to revolutionise space industry
Australian start-up launches satellite ground station to provide government, defence, intelligence agencies and private sector view of all satellites in orbit
Macquarie Data Centres receives green light for new AI-ready Sydney Data Centre
The new facility will take the company’s total data centre IT load to a potential 63 megawatts (MW). It will be able to accommodate the power and cooling demands of AI and cloud tech, and will leverage efficient technologies such as liquid cooling.
Vocus to Roll Out 1.6 Tb/s Technology with Ciena’s WaveLogic 6
Upgrade will improve network power efficiency and boost capacity to support cloud and AI demands.
Property Price Growth to Slow in 2024 Before Bouncing Back in 2025: Oxford Economics Australia
2024 is expected to be a softer year for home prices than last year, increasing a muted 2.7%. Leading the pack, Perth’s property market is expected to outperform over the next three years.
BlueAnt's X-3D MAX 40-Watt Bluetooth Speaker Redefines Portable Audio
With four active speaker drivers and continuous play, the waterproof X-3D MAX is designed to deliver crystal clear audio anywhere, everywhere and anytime.
Constant Contact Appoints New Leadership in APAC to Accelerate Growth in the Region
Renée Chaplin joins organisation as VP of APAC to help drive local adoption of Constant Contact and to scale its international business.
Coates Power & HVAC Deploys Industrial Chiller to Visy To Maintain Vital Milk Bottle Production Line
Visy faced a disruption to its milk bottle production line and required an industrial chiller to keep the production going as planned. It engaged Coates Power & HVAC for a suitable chiller to be installed as soon as possible.
Australian businesses are ready to ditch passwords, says new report from FIDO Alliance and LastPass
Ninety per cent of Australian IT leaders expect passwords will represent less than a quarter of their organisation's logins in five years or less
Rubrik Appoints Abhilash Purushothaman GM and VP Asia
Antoine Le Tard, Vice President, Rubrik APJ, said the role was a newly created position where Purushothaman will lead the business in India, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and across ASEAN.
Rubrik Zero Labs Finds Almost Two-Thirds of Australian Businesses Would Pay Ransomware Demand
Rubrik Zero Labs commissioned its second global study with Wakefield Research to gather insights from more than 1,600 IT and security leaders—half of which were CIOs and CISOs—across 10 countries. This study was supplemented by Rubrik telemetry, combining both qualitative and quantitative data.