ARENA’s increased backing will support the rectification of MGA Thermal’s demonstration unit as it heads towards commercial deployment

COMPANY NEWS: Australian clean energy company, MGA Thermal, has received a further $2.48 million, tripling the project backing from the Federal Government’s Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

GUEST RESEARCH:  New Relic State of Observability for Energy and Utilities report reveals 40% of respondents experience high-business-impact outages at least once a week, with providers embracing observability and AIOps to reduce the impact 

RMIT University in partnership with São Paulo State University has developed a smartphone face-screening tool that could help paramedics identify stroke in seconds.

AI’s predictive analytics offer significant business opportunity to assess Scope 3 risks, forecast future energy consumption and lower an organisation’s carbon footprint

GUEST RESEARCH: IT infrastructure services provider Kyndryl in collaboration with Microsoft today released the Australian findings of the Global Sustainability Barometer study.

Infor CloudSuite Public Sector to modernise and streamline operations with improved data governance and transparency

Infor, the industry cloud company, has announced that long-time customer Central Highlands Water will deploy Infor CloudSuite Public Sector to transform it into an agile, data-driven digital utility with streamlined budgeting and reporting.

 GUEST RESEARCH

• Healthcare organisations experienced 50% more encryption events than the global average across 2023

• Cloud continues to drive inherent risk and security blind spots as 70% of all data is typically not machine readable by security appliances

• Leadership changes following cyberattacks are on the rise, with major personnel changes reported by 44% of organisations — up from 36% in 2022