NCI gets $70m to replace Raijin and return to world top 25
The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) based at The Australian National University will receive a $70 million funding boost to replace its ageing supercomputer, Raijin.
Stories by George Nott
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Why are hackers breaking into politicians’ accounts and liking single tweets?
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Nibby chatbot launched to assist NIB Health Fund customers
NIB Health Funds has launched an intelligent chatbot to help customers with health insurance enquiries.
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AWS exodus due to Amazon Australia competition 'doesn’t make rational sense': A/NZ chief
Amazon Web Services' Australian chief has dismissed suggestions local retailers will pull out of the company’s cloud services following the arrival of Amazon.com.au in the country.
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Amazon Web Services brings machine learning to the masses with SageMaker and DeepLens
AWS’ ANZ managing director Paul Migliorini says there is an appetite among Australian organisations to try their hand at machine learning.
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APAC CIOs ahead of peers on AI, IoT, chatbots: Gartner survey
Chief information officers working in Asia Pacific are steaming ahead of their global peers in the adoption of disruptive tech
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Vodafone extends Splunk deal to 'fine-tune ops'
Vodafone signs multi-year deal with machine data analysis platform provider Splunk, to crunch and correlate operations and network performance data.
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Dropbox launches product suite in response to booming gig economy
Dropbox has launched a suite of products targeted squarely at the self-employed business user, in response to the growing freelancer economy.
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National security contractor hacked, government reveals
A hacker gained access to a national security contractor’s system for an “extended period of time” and stole a “significant” amount of data last year, the government will reveal today.
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Cyber warfare fine but stick to the rules, Australia urges world
The Australian government has said there will be consequences for states breaking international norms in cyberspace, and is prepared to take "military measures" in response to malicious cyber attacks.
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BT joins pack offering new SD-WAN services
BT today launched a new software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service aimed at large organisations.
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Transpacific in-transit encryption trial achieves 100Gbps
Engineers from Telstra, Ericsson and Ciena have demonstrated the ability to encrypt data while in transit between Los Angeles and Melbourne at 100Gbps.
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Cloud skills shortage holding back some Aussie businesses
A quarter of Australian IT chiefs are finding it difficult to recruit staff with the cloud skills they need, according to a survey by Rackspace.
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Give Aussie cyber firms a fair go, says government growth network CEO
The CEO of the government's Australian Cyber Security Growth Network today implored hundreds of IT professionals to give Aussie security firms a fair go.
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CBA to spend $40m to improve suspicious activity monitoring tech
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is spending $40 million to improve the technology used to monitor accounts and transactions for suspicious activity in the wake of a legal challenge from AUSTRAC accusing the bank of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism law breaches.
