Peter Griffin, Editor. 12 August 2022, 2:22 pm Google this week became the latest tech giant to announce New Zealand as a “cloud” region, following in the footsteps of AWS and Microsoft. It won’t be building its own data centres as the other two are in the process of doing, but will locate its equipment […]

Peter Griffin, Editor. 11 August 2022, 1:24 pm A group of 18 tech companies including Amazon Web Services, Symantec, Crowdstrike, Splunk and Salesforce are building a common data standard to streamline the use of cybersecurity risk threat information. The move is in response to frustration on the part of IT managers and information security officers […]

Victoria MacLennan. 09 August 2022, 2:55 pm Kia ora koutou ITP members and supporters, I hope you are managing to stay warm and dry in this cold wet wintery period.  This morning I joined the Engineering Leadership Forum for our bi-monthly CEO’s meeting, a group I thoroughly enjoy engaging with. The challenges our Engineering colleagues […]

Peter Griffin, Editor. 09 August 2022, 12:14 pm The NZ Hi-Tech Awards celebrated the tech industry’s leading individuals and organisations in Wellington on Friday, including Summer of Tech, which won the prize for Best Contribution to the NZ Tech Sector. Summer of Tech, which had been a finalist alongside Digital Future Aotearoa, Humanitix and Microsoft, […]

Peter Griffin, Editor. 05 August 2022, 12:21 pm Indonesia doesn’t feature on the news agenda here very much, which is a poor reflection on us, not the Indonesians. The sprawling island archipelago nation just to the northwest of Australia is home to 273 million people and is very much within the Asia Pacific economic sphere […]

Peter Griffin, Editor. 04 August 2022, 10:39 am Apple wants to change the way people log into apps and websites forever with its Passkeys feature set to roll out in a few months’ time and do away with cumbersome passwords. The debut of iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and MacOS Ventura, the latest version of the […]

Victoria MacLennan. 03 August 2022, 8:47 pm Last week I was invited to speak to a Brown Bag Lunch event of a large Government department. The topic they asked me to speak on was practical tips for moving from a “hands on tools” role into a leadership one. Here is a summary of my presentation. […]

Peter Griffin, Editor. 02 August 2022, 10:35 am Imagine you are at your desk one day working on some software code when your Slack channel starts pinging with incoming messages. Rather than the usual technical chatter, the message gathering excited replies is different – the Russians have invaded, and it’s time to move to emergency […]

Victoria MacLennan. 01 August 2022, 11:21 pm Kia ora koutou ITP Members and supporters. It’s August already, hasn’t this year flown by! As you will have realised by now I spend about half of my time on digital skills – closing the digital divide, growing the capability of our industry, future proofing the education system, […]

Peter Griffin, Editor. 29 July 2022, 12:43 pm If we want to make the most of a society and economy that is increasingly digital, we need to get to grips with how we manage identity in the digital world. But as Department of Internal Affairs identification consultant Joanne Knight said this week, “here in New […]