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With three major functional upgrades to existing databases as well, the full complement of purpose-built AWS databases is now 15

Xero’s latest research on what is top of mind for SMEs

Some of the greatest advances in the fight against the disease are happening not in the lab but inside the Kiwi software firm’s base in Wellington

Tim Sheedy, principal advisor at Ecosystm, details where organisations need to make ‘smart investments’ as AI reaches mass market adoption.

Carol Mahoney is onto her third startup, and it is not a pizza or transport app

It is not such a wild thought that our youth will be educated by a robotic interface in the foreseeable future

“One of its key uses will be to advance weather forecasting, enabling more precise forecasts and helping to refine forecasting of climate extremes and hazardous events," says Research, Science and Innovation Minister Dr Megan Woods

Now is the time to work with your CISO to reframe cybersecurity and privacy as more than cost reduction, and to position the firm as a privacy champion

"The future of the financial services industry is increasingly weightless, requiring few physical assets to establish or maintain a presence."

Customers will be able to interact with Kiri in-store later this year

...and if AI can solve problems faster than humans, does this mean ‘game over for us?’ SAS COO and CTO Oliver Schabenberger explores the impact and boundaries of the technology

Many organisations set multiple business objectives for a single project, making it too complex to deliver high performance, notes Sandy Shen of Gartner

Amazon lost almost US$3 billion before turning its first profit, and took significant risks. So what risks are you willing to take? Can you put a portion of today’s business model at risk to create tomorrow’s?

IBM Safer Payments will use machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyse behaviour and fraud patterns, build and adapt models of emerging fraud threats, and recommend countermeasure responses.

Taking on business and technology challenges for some of the most disrupted industries provided Craig Musker a prime foundation for his current role

Edge computing frees up the real time data processing and then the enterprise can use the cloud to handle heavier lifting, such as combining and analysing data from multiple devices, writes Raghavan Srinivasan of Seagate

Industry leaders talk about shifting mindsets and taking steps to foster diversity and inclusion in the sector

With few enterprises using purely private or purely public cloud infrastructure, a range of startups has emerged to meet unique hybrid-cloud needs for management, storage and virtualisation

This will allow us to continue to effectively support the government’s efforts to streamline telecommunications services for their agencies, says Vodafone enterprise director Ken Tunnicliffe .

This year’s research reveals how New Zealand CIOs are concurrently tackling the fast pace of change across markets and technologies, as well as their roles.