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Looking ahead to the rest of 2024, Australia and New Zealand’s economic prospects are modest, with both nations facing similar economic issues since mid-2023 including high inflation, sluggish growth, and rising interest rates. Against this complex backdrop, Forrester anticipates only a modest increase (+4.0%) in tech spending in Australia for 2024.

COMPANY NEWS: Sunday 23 June is the eleventh year of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED).

When Lunar Lake processors appear in Q3, new Thread Director technology will attempt to pass all workloads through the new high-performing and power-efficient 'Skymont' Efficiency cores.

COMPANY NEWS: Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH), a global leader in supply chain commerce solutions, proudly announces its dual recognition as a Leader in both the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS) and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). This marks the sixth consecutive year Manhattan has been recognised for TMS and the sixteenth consecutive year for WMS, highlighting the company’s sustained excellence and leadership in supply chain technology.

COMPANY NEWS: Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH), a global leader in supply chain commerce solutions, proudly announces its dual recognition as a Leader in both the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS) and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). This marks the sixth consecutive year Manhattan has been recognised for TMS and the sixteenth consecutive year for WMS, highlighting the company’s sustained excellence and leadership in supply chain technology.

The rise of AI-driven attacks and accelerated software delivery cycles makes it more difficult to protect organisations, as 89% of CISOs say application security remains a blind spot

COMPANY NEWS: Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leader in unified observability and security, has released its annual CISO survey. This year’s report, “The state of application security in 2024”, reveals that Australian organisations are struggling with internal communication barriers, which hinder their ability to address cybersecurity threats. The results indicate that CISOs find it difficult to drive alignment between security teams and the C-suite, leaving gaps in the organisation’s understanding of cyber risk. As a result, they find themselves more exposed to advanced cyber threats, at a time when AI-driven attacks are on the rise.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Elastic's Area VP for Australia and New Zealand, Gavin Jones, talks to iTwire from the company's ElasticON conference in Sydney.

COMPANY NEWS: Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) predicts four key technology trends that will impact the Australian retail market in 2024.

Businesses continue to grapple with IT recruitment and training challenges as they seek to keep up with accelerating technology advancements

GUEST RESEARCH: New research by Rackspace Technology (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end, hybrid multicloud technology solutions company, in association with VMware finds that despite ongoing economic uncertainty, businesses are committed to prioritising their IT investments in 2024, particularly in transformative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud transformation.

In the early 2000s, accessing the internet was through a dial-up connection which could take anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes to establish a connection. In 2023, generative AI tools can generate poems, short stories and complex legal and medical documents in a matter of seconds. 

With 2024 fast approaching, it’s becoming increasingly evident next year will be a pivotal one in cybersecurity, against the backdrop of continued high-profile attacks and the roll out of the government’s new 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy.

Demand for executives positions in Australia had its largest fall in six months according to the latest monthly report on the availability of jobs for middle Australia by the EL Group HR consulting firm, which also forecasts a “big fallout” in jobs heading into 2024.

GUEST OPINION: Global cybersecurity leader and creator of new-scale Siem for advancing security operations, Exabeam, shares the thoughts of senior leaders on the state of the cyber security landscape as we move towards 2024.

GUEST OPINION: Predicting the future is difficult, but you can anticipate what is likely to happen by looking at how things have evolved over the past year. This year again, Barracuda asked colleagues who work on the security frontline, from XDR and offensive security to international product experts, our own security operations team, and more, about the things they witnessed in 2023 and expect to see in 2024.

OT and critical infrastructure security specialist Nozomi Networks has predicted that Australia and New Zealand critical infrastructure owners/operators will see a major uplift in cybersecurity – particularly in their operational technology (OT) and IoT environments – next year.

GUEST RESEARCH: Demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and the pressure to reduce energy consumption, costs, and greenhouse gas emissions loom large over the data centre industry in 2024, predicts digital infrastructure provider Vertiv.

Intense, urgent demand for artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and the "duelling pressure" to reduce energy consumption, costs and greenhouse gas emissions loom large over the data centre industry - and will be at the forfefront - heading into 2024, according to the latest trends forecast from digital infrastructure and solutions provider Vertiv.

Chatbots are the most popular AI-powered marketing tool today, but companies recognise the opportunity to do more — and are prioritising data quality in order to get there

GUEST RESEARCH: New research from Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), the customer engagement platform that drives real-time, personalised experiences for today’s leading brands, shows that AI automation has emerged as the primary means by which businesses are looking to grow revenues and operate efficiently.

Scams continue to wreak tremendous personal and financial damage on consumers and the Australian economy, warned ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb when unveiling the ACCC’S annual compliance and enforcement priorities for 2023-24.