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Pushing cyber-awareness beyond Australia's C-level

Now that CEOs across ANZ properly understand cybersecurity and cyber-risks, it's time to get the board of directors up to speed.

By Jim Cook • 4 min read • Tue, 10th Aug 2021

Cloud Security

Qualys enters into agreement to acquire TotalCloud

Cloud security company Qualys has announced an agreement to acquire TotalCloud, the cloud workflow management and no-code automation platform.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 2 min read • Tue, 10th Aug 2021

Virtualisation

Entrust nShield security models certified with VMware Kubernetes Grid

Entrust nShield hardware security modules have achieved certification with VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, enhancing containerised application security.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Tue, 10th Aug 2021

Cloud Services

Seequent acquires Imago Inc to bolster cloud capabilities of geoscientific imagery

The move enriches Seequent's solutions portfolio and bolsters its capabilities to help engineers solve earth, environment, and energy challenges.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Mon, 9th Aug 2021

Partner Programmes

Hyland appoints new VP of global partner programmes

Promoting from within, the company has appointed Bob Dunn to the role, who has spent six years at the company operational practices space.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Mon, 9th Aug 2021

Malware

48 million malware messages: Proofpoint reveals the reality of today's threat landscape

Proofpoint's Human Factor 2021 report reveals the reality of cyber threats, with millions of ransomware-loaded emails and new attack methods.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 5th Aug 2021

Malware

Ivanti tackles today's biggest security threats with RiskSense acquisition

Ivanti has acquired risk-based vulnerability management specialist RiskSense to enhance its patch management capabilities.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Wed, 4th Aug 2021

Cloud Services

Rackspace Technology appoints Angeline Maronese as managing director of ANZ

Rackspace Technology has announced the executive appointment of Angeline Maronese as managing director of Australia and New Zealand, effective immediately.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 3 min read • Tue, 3rd Aug 2021

Marketing Technologies

Square to acquire Afterpay for approximately AUD$40 billion

Square to acquire Australian buy now, pay later firm Afterpay in a $29bn deal aimed at delivering more compelling financial products and services.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 3 min read • Tue, 3rd Aug 2021

Customer Relationship Management

Qualtrics acquires conversational analytics company Clarabridge for $1.125 billion

Qualtrics is set to acquire Clarabridge, a company specialising in omnichannel conversational analytics, in a $1.125 billion stock transaction.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Mon, 2nd Aug 2021

SAP

SNP acquires SAP data specialist Datavard

SNP SE acquires software and consulting company Datavard AG to strengthen its platform strategy in data transformation and management.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 3 min read • Mon, 2nd Aug 2021

Dicker Data

SOLD: Dicker Data snaps up Exeed in landmark $68M deal

Dicker Data's $68 million acquisition of Exceed will make it the second largest IT distributor in NZ, with estimated revenue of over $500m.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Sat, 31st Jul 2021

Firewalls

Video: 10 Minute IT Jams - Who is Fastly?

Fastly's area vice president Derek Rast and technical evangelist for APAC Stephen Gillies discuss Fastly's offerings and the need for modern security solutions.

By Nick Forrester • 6 min read • Fri, 30th Jul 2021

Open source

BigCommerce makes first acquisition since going public

BigCommerce intends to leverage Feedonomics to expand the number of global marketplace and advertising channels for merchants.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Thu, 29th Jul 2021

Alfresco

Interview: The master plan behind Hyland's Nuxeo & Alfresco acquisitions

Enterprise content management (ECM) and content services provider Hyland thrives on grabbing the right opportunities for its evolution.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Tue, 27th Jul 2021

Artificial Intelligence

Veritone acquires AI hiring company PandoLogic

Veritone, the creator of an AI operating system, announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire PandoLogic.

By Ryan Morris-Reade • 3 min read • Tue, 27th Jul 2021

Marketing Technologies

Bayesian optimisation: What it is, and how it can improve modelling

Originally used to break free from the grid, Bayesian optimisation efficiently uncovers the global maxima of a black-box function in a defined parameter space.

By SigOpt • 5 min read • Tue, 27th Jul 2021