Global Stories

Big 5 cloud providers tighten stranglehold on market

While the market is seeing strong growth, it's coming at the expense of small-to-medium sized cloud operators.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 26th Oct 2018

Oracle's Ellison calls out Amazon with next-gen cloud

Larry Ellison claims the rest of the cloud market is based on decade old technology with poor security, comparing Oracle's new offering with Amazon.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 23rd Oct 2018

Semiconductors

Supermicro to test for spy chips, Apple & AWS call for retraction

Supermicro vows to test its motherboards for alleged spy chips amid strong denials from Apple and AWS, who demand Bloomberg retract its claims.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Tue, 23rd Oct 2018

Internet of Things

Gartner's top tips to keep relevant in the face of change

Gartner predicts that AI projects will remain alchemy, face recognition will reduce missing people, and social media scandals will have little impact.

By Ben Moore • 7 min read • Wed, 17th Oct 2018

Semiconductors

Chinese espionage: Sweating Apple insists breach allegations are 'not true'

The dust still hasn't settled on the report that caused Supermicro's stocks to collapse, and now Apple is stressing its innocence.

By Ashton Young • 5 min read • Tue, 9th Oct 2018

Semiconductors

Supermicro, Apple, & Amazon vs crippling scandal – who's lying?

A Bloomberg report claims that Supermicro sold motherboards with Chinese spy chips to Apple and Amazon, causing Supermicro's stock to plummet by 40%.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Sat, 6th Oct 2018

Hyperscale

AWS expands ECS offering in APAC

Amazon ECS service discovery makes it easy for containerised services to discover and connect with each other.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Mon, 1st Oct 2018

Hyperscale

Hyperscale data centre CAPEX up 59% - but dominated by usual suspects

In the first half of this year more than US$53b has been spent on hyperscale data centre development, with the bulk of that from just 5 companies.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Tue, 28th Aug 2018

Data Analytics

Big data and AI: How cutting-edge technology can change the healthcare industry

Google, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle joined forces, pledging to speed up the progress of health data standards and interoperability.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 3 min read • Fri, 24th Aug 2018

Digital Entertainment

Canalys: 187% smart speaker growth driven by Chinese offerings

While Google and Amazon still lead the way, it seems the smart speaker market is no exception to the steady rise of Chinese tech.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Fri, 17th Aug 2018

Hyperscale

Gartner - IaaS public cloud services market grew 29.5% in 2017

Amazon is still on top, but Alibaba's investment strategy is giving the company huge potential for global growth.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Thu, 2nd Aug 2018

Digital Entertainment

Canalys: Smart speaker installed base market to hit 2018 milestone

Smart speaker installed base set to hit 100 million by year-end, with Amazon Echo taking over 50% share, says Canalys.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Tue, 10th Jul 2018

DevOps

Rackspace takes next step in AWS migration certification

As an AWS Migrations Acceleration Program Partner, it can help customers reduce the risk of migrating to AWS cloud.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Thu, 28th Jun 2018

Digital Signage

IDC - Who's winning the smart speaker battle?

The hottest two categories, Smart Speakers and Video Entertainment products, are expected to represent 71% of the market in 2018.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Mon, 25th Jun 2018

Marketing Technologies

eBay king of online shopping ahead of Gumtree, Amazon, Kogan

eBay is the favourite online shopping with over 9.4m Aussies visiting in an average four weeks, ahead of local second-hand site Gumtree with 5.6m.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Tue, 19th Jun 2018

Supply Chain

Is AI key to maximum profit for retail and FMCG firms?

Retailers including Amazon, Alibaba, Lowe's and Tesco are developing their own AI solutions for automation, analytics and robotics.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 3 min read • Tue, 19th Jun 2018

Marketing Technologies

Amazon vs. consumers on the Aussie shutout

Amazon announced that due to GST regulation they will no longer be shipping from the US to Australia. Its comment and the consumer perspective inside.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Fri, 1st Jun 2018

Hyperscale