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Cybersecurity and compliance company Proofpoint has appointed 20-year IT industry veteran George Lee as Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ).

GUEST INTERVIEW: Sumit Bansal, BlueVoyant's Head of APJ, talks to iTWire about how it helps CISOs and CIOs protect their company, assets and brand reputation from internal and external threats.

Hybrid multicloud computing provider Nutanix has appointed Shree Balachandran to the newly created position of Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) Cloud Economist.

GUEST RESEARCH: Software intelligence company Dynatrace announced today the results of an independent global survey of 1,300 CIOs and senior DevOps managers, including 100 from Australia, in large organisations.

GUEST RESEARCH: Software intelligence company Dynatrace has announced the results of an independent global survey of 1,303 (including 100 from Australia) CIOs and senior cloud and IT operations managers in large organisations. The findings showed that as the move toward cloud-native architectures accelerates, the data generated by such environments outstrips current solutions' ability to produce meaningful analytics. CIOs noted that their teams rely on multiple, disparate monitoring and data analytics solutions to maintain observability and security, making it challenging to extract answers quickly and drive digital transformation forward.

GUEST OPINION by Debashish Jyotiprakash, APJ managing director, Qualys:  In the last couple of years, we have witnessed a rapidly growing number of cyberattacks that has left organisations exposed to threats as they struggle to keep pace with and balance the growing need to transform and innovate, and match it with the cybersecurity investments required to properly assess the risks to their critical business processes, putting even more pressure on cybersecurity teams, which are often already understaffed.

Hardware and software vendor Lenovo announces the launch of its Workspace Solutions portfolio to provide employees with flexible working options, offering the benefits of both in-office interactions and remote work.

A survey conducted for machine identity management specialist Venafi found that CIOs expect the average number of machine identities per organisation to grow from 250,000 at the end of 2021 to more than 500,000 by 2024.

Local research and advisory firm Adapt has today urged organisations to rethink their cloud migration strategy as their survey, which polled more than 1,000 digital transformation leaders, reveal evolving challenges and shifts in IT workloads brought on by cloud migration.

GUEST OPINION by Fleming Shi, Chief Technology Officer, Barracuda: With remote working now the norm for many organisations, security is topping the list of concerns for Australian CIOs.

As the pool of skilled talent diminishes in the Australian market, organisations cannot afford to take a misstep in their talent strategy, according to new independent research by one recruitment firm revealing that the impact of a bad hire is more damaging and costly today than it was a year ago.

Seventy three percent of Australian CIOs plan to extend salary increases to their tech employees in 2021, according to a new salary guide from one recruiting firm.

GUEST OPINION by Kathryn Ramanathan, ANZ Channel and Distribution Manager, Cohesity:  As Australian organisations recover from the disruptions of the past 12 months and make fresh plans for the year ahead, many are seeking ways to improve the performance and flexibility of their IT departments.

GUEST OPINION by George Tsoukas, ANZ Manager, Gigamon:  In a recent study, 60 percent of CIOs and IT executives surveyed said they expect a decline in their budgets as a result of the pandemic. Simultaneously many CIOs and IT managers are being told to find ways to accelerate digital transformation to provide an improved customer and user experience.

GUEST OPINION by Derek Cowan, Cohesity: It’s been on the medium and long-term strategic roadmaps for organisations of all sizes, but now digital transformation has become a must-do item.

GUEST OPINION by Paul Randlesome, global vice president of Value Management at Silver Peak: This year has seen Australian enterprises accelerate their digital transformation efforts, migrating applications and infrastructure to the cloud as they shift from dedicated data centres to shared public infrastructure.

As cloud technology, data analytics and cyber-security increasingly dominate the ICT agenda, old school CIOs need to find new ways to add value to the organisations they serve.

GUEST OPINION by Wayson Vannatta, Chief Information Officer at WatchGuard Technologies:Infrastructure, intellectual property and IT security…just a decade ago, the CIO’s role as curator and custodian of the backroom cost centre that was ICT was well defined. So was their place at the top table, where their expertise in what was then an esoteric area of operations went largely unchallenged.

GUEST RESEARCH by Gartner: Enterprise IT spending across all industry sectors in Australia will grow 3.6% to reach more than A$95.8 billion in 2021, following an expected 2.8% decline in 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc.

A survey of cyber security professionals in NSW has found that 96.5% were working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic and the income of 12.6% had been affected due to the outbreak.

An extra US15 billion a week has been spent globally on technology by IT leaders to enable safe and secure home working during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis, representing one of the biggest surges in technology investment in history - with Australian IT leaders increasing spending on cyber security, despite struggling to find skilled cyber security professionals, according to a new global survey.