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iTWire Wednesday, 28 April 2021 10:43 AIIA Skillls Hub courses now top 3,000 Featured The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has grown the number of education courses it offers through its Skils Hub to over 3,000 in partnership with education institutions. The AIIA says courses on Skills Hub are made available by Microsoft, IBM and AWS and with long held skills shortages in Australia’s ICT sector, the Skills Hub is one measure to help improve the supply o...

iTWire Monday, 26 April 2021 12:08 BlackLine appoints fourth female director, Barbara Whye, to board Shares Barbara Whyne joins BlackLine board Global accounting automation software provider BlackLine has appointed its fourth female director to its board, with the appointment of Barbara Whye, who will join the company from Apple where she currently heads up the inclusion and diversity role. Widely recognised as an inclusion and diversity leader and advocate for social change, ...

iTWire Thursday, 22 April 2021 12:33 ISACA offers new ‘emerging technologies’ certification Shares ISACA announced on Thursday its Certified in Emerging Technology (CET) certification, noting that "emerging technologies are essential to digital transformation and business progress, whether it is blockchain used in supply chains and in the financial industry, or artificial intelligence in driving efficiency across sectors". “Established IT professionals, students and rece...

iTWire Wednesday, 21 April 2021 10:58 Tech talent in demand, higher salaries on offer to keep, secure talent Featured The 2021 Salary Guide from ICT industry recruiter Robert Half reveals that 69% of the CIOs say they are also willing to increase their initial salary offering to secure tech talent. And the survey also reveals that growing demand for technology skills is driving companies to increase their remuneration offerings well beyond that of other sectors in a bid t...

iTWire Wednesday, 21 April 2021 14:24 Remote work solutions contribute to avoidance of greenhouse gas emisions, says LogMeIn Shares Remote support software specialist LogMeIn is claiming that it contributed to avoiding as much as 63 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions through its customers’ use of GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar during the first year of the pandemic - between April 2020 and March 2021 - compared to daily commuting and business travel for company meeting...

iTWire Thursday, 15 April 2021 12:22 Square to roll out lending program for Australian market Shares Card payments company Square is set to roll out Square Loans in Australia, a program designed to help small businesses grow by giving them quick and simple access to funds. Square says Australia will be the first global market, outside of the US, where it will launch its lending product.  “It’s no secret that small businesses in Australia have historically faced huge hurdles...

iTWire Wednesday, 14 April 2021 10:37 Telcos want more Federal Govt action on ‘improving’ funding of financial counselling, says Communications Alliance Featured John Stanton, CEO Communications Alliance Australia’s telcos have urged the Federal Government to to do further work on the Sylvan Review’s recommendations for improving funding of financial counselling. According to telecoms industry peak body Communications Alliance that’s the position of telcos fol...

iTWire Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:26 Call for telecoms industry to ‘improve response’ to customers experiencing financial hardship Featured Financial Counselling Australia’s comments follows release of its Telcos and Financial Hardship: Feedback from the Frontline. Commenting on its own report, which has two parts - a survey of financial counsellors and desk top research on other relevant studies and data - Financial Counselling Australia says every financial couns...

iTWire Wednesday, 14 April 2021 12:56 Gigamon, Riverbed partner on hybrid cloud deployment, monitoring and management Shares Cloud visibility and analytics provider Gigamon is partnering with Riverbed in support of the recent launch of Gigamon Hawk, the first elastic visibility and analytics fabric for all data-in-motion across the hybrid cloud. Gigamon says with the partnership, mutual customers can leverage Riverbed’s network performance management (NPM) solutions to deliver ...

There has been a significant increase in satellite networks operating in Australia, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (AC...