Commonwealth Bank brings in CTO – Finance – Training & Development
The Commonwealth Bank has appointed a new chief technology officer, with Rodrigo Castillo starting in the role this week. Rodrigo Castillo (Image credit: Gavin Munroe/LinkedIn)…
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Telstra taps Digital Victoria exec to lead IT strategy and transformation – Training & Development – Telco/ISP
Telstra has appointed a new group owner of IT strategy and transformation, securing the services of Suzanne Aitken from Digital Victoria. Aitken is the second…
Microsoft in EU antitrust crosshairs over Teams, Office tie-up – Cloud
Microsoft has found itself the target of an European Union antitrust investigation over the bundling of its chat and video app Teams with its Office…
Privacy group challenges Ryanair’s use of facial recognition – Security
Digital rights group NOYB has filed a complaint against Ryanair, alleging that the airline is violating customers’ data protection rights by using facial recognition to…
UQ adding GPUs, CPUs to Bunya supercomputer – Strategy – Hardware
The University of Queensland’s Bunya supercomputer is being upgraded with new GPUs and thousands more CPU cores, with project completion due in August or early…
Nominations for the 2023 CRN Fast50 are now open! – Promoted Content
The CRN Fast50 is back for 2023, with nominations now open for Australia’s biggest awards program for fast-growing IT partner businesses. Celebrating the fastest growing…
CBA IT staff impacted as bank “retrenches” 251 – Finance – Strategy – Training & Development
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has cut an unknown number of IT staff, including data architects and software engineers, as part of a larger round of…
Coles deploys 5G fixed wireless to stores, distribution centres – Hardware – Networking – Telco/ISP
Coles Group is deploying 5G fixed wireless to its retail stores and new distribution centres as a failover option in the event that primary connectivity…
AI lesson for Microsoft and Google: Spend money to make money – Software
Artificial intelligence is expected to pay off big for tech giants including Microsoft and Alphabet someday – but expect deeper investments before gains trickle to…
GreenSquareDC signs Multiplex for data centre build – Strategy – Cloud
WA data centre outfit GreenSquareDC has announced that Multiplex will be building its WAi1 facility, a 96MW data centre that’s aiming for net zero carbon…
Portugal won’t compensate telcos for replacing “high-risk” equipment – Telco/ISP
Portugal will not compensate telecoms operators for any Huawei or other equipment they may have to swap as a result of a recent decision barring…
Russian court jails cyber security executive for 14 years – Security
A Russian court convicted a top cyber security executive of treason and jailed him for 14 years in a case that state news agency TASS…