Brett Winterford

One of Australia’s most experienced technology journalists, former iTnews Group Editor Brett Winterford has written about the business of technology for 15 years.

Awarded Business Journalist and Technology Journalist of the year at the 2004 ITjourno awards and Editor of the Year at the 2009 Publishers Australia 'Bell' awards, Winterford has extensive experience in both the business and technology press, writing for such publications as the Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald.

As editor of iTnews Brett has led a team of award-winning journalists; delivered speeches at industry events; authored, commissioned and edited research papers, curated technology conferences [The iTnews Executive Summit and Australian Data Centre Strategy Summit and also shares the judging of the annual Benchmark Awards.

Brett's areas of specialty include enterprise software, cloud computing and IT services.

Recent articles by Brett Winterford

ING CIO promoted into global role

ING CIO promoted into global role

Andrew Henderson departing for Europe.
Brett Winterford Jun 17 2013 2:37PM Training & Development
Crime fighting CIO heads to WA Government

Crime fighting CIO heads to WA Government

Andrew Cann turns in the badge for the baton.
Brett Winterford Jun 17 2013 6:36AM Training & Development
Esri’s proposed standard still alive

Esri’s proposed standard still alive

Standards body to renew work on GeoServices REST API.
Brett Winterford Jun 13 2013 6:32AM Software
NSW opens new data centres to cloud suppliers

NSW opens new data centres to cloud suppliers

Can a centralised IT hub be 'market led'?
Brett Winterford Jun 5 2013 8:35AM Strategy
Canberra tests Android security

Canberra tests Android security

Three Samsung devices up for accreditation.
Brett Winterford Jun 4 2013 7:51AM Security
Revised icode applied to mobiles

Revised icode applied to mobiles

ISPs asked to cut off infected tablets, smartphones.
Brett Winterford Jun 4 2013 7:18AM Security
Open source crusade blocks geospatial standard

Open source crusade blocks geospatial standard

Esri withdraws its API from standards process.
Brett Winterford Jun 4 2013 7:00AM Software
Canberra tests Android security

Canberra tests Android security

Three Samsung devices up for accreditation.
Brett Winterford Jun 3 2013 6:33AM Security
Revised icode applied to mobile devices

Revised icode applied to mobile devices

ISPs asked to cut off infected tablets, smartphones.
Brett Winterford May 31 2013 9:19AM Security
Australia launches National Fog Strategy

Australia launches National Fog Strategy

Opinion: Memo to policy makers - please go solve some real problems.
Brett Winterford May 29 2013 2:59PM Networking
Queensland Government drops CIO

Queensland Government drops CIO

DG to take over, Peter Grant moved to new position.
Brett Winterford May 28 2013 2:00PM Training & Development
AFP arrest casts a pall over InfoSec industry

AFP arrest casts a pall over InfoSec industry

Who can you trust for IT security?
Brett Winterford Apr 29 2013 6:40AM Security
Doomsday looms for outsourcers in SaaS world

Doomsday looms for outsourcers in SaaS world

Will body shops cut it in a cookie-cutter world?
Brett Winterford Apr 16 2013 7:00AM Strategy
New UK regulator to probe banking outages

New UK regulator to probe banking outages

RBS systems still under scrunity.
Brett Winterford Apr 12 2013 10:53AM Networking
How to cure a disease with your smartphone

How to cure a disease with your smartphone

Can altruism thrive in the age of the Bitcoin?
Brett Winterford Apr 11 2013 7:00AM Software
St. George CIO seeks new approach to BYOD

St. George CIO seeks new approach to BYOD

Caters for growth of new mobile ecosystems.
Brett Winterford Apr 9 2013 10:02AM Hardware
Inside the Pawsey supercomputing centre

Inside the Pawsey supercomputing centre

First look inside the new engine room for Australian research.
Brett Winterford Apr 8 2013 2:19PM Networking
Photos: Building the Pawsey Supercomputer Centre

Photos: Building the Pawsey Supercomputer Centre

Australia's research community gets a purpose-built data centre.
Brett Winterford Apr 8 2013 1:57PM Networking
Botched upgrade downs Westpac margin lending system

Botched upgrade downs Westpac margin lending system

Week of frustration after scheduled Easter outage.
Brett Winterford Apr 8 2013 7:00AM Software
Five finance projects delivered on Agile

Five finance projects delivered on Agile

Small teams drive big results.
Brett Winterford , Liz Tay Apr 3 2013 7:15AM Strategy

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