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

Google opens Android Market to Australian developers

Google opens Android Market to Australian developers

Only two years after store opens for business.
Brett Winterford Oct 1 2010 10:16AM Software
Inside the CBA's Oracle-as-a-service project

Inside the CBA's Oracle-as-a-service project

How the Commonwealth Bank saved on shared database.
Brett Winterford Sep 30 2010 6:41AM Storage
Post-mortem: How the DDoS attack on AFACT misfired

Post-mortem: How the DDoS attack on AFACT misfired

Attackers given IP address of NetRegistry load balancer.
Brett Winterford Sep 29 2010 2:31PM Networking
Operation Payback directs DDoS attack at AFACT

Operation Payback directs DDoS attack at AFACT

Thousands of bystanders taken out.
Brett Winterford Sep 28 2010 1:54PM Security
Bulletproof wins $1.5m trio of deals

Bulletproof wins $1.5m trio of deals

Wins hosting for Borders, AGIMO and Movember.
Brett Winterford Sep 27 2010 3:12PM Networking
Aussie search company goes guerilla on Oracle

Aussie search company goes guerilla on Oracle

Removed by security.
Brett Winterford Sep 24 2010 6:25AM Software
UPDATE: Salesforce CEO rebuts his mentor

UPDATE: Salesforce CEO rebuts his mentor

Ellison fires back during closing keynote.
Brett Winterford Sep 23 2010 7:16AM Software
Oracle to host CRM on-demand from Sydney

Oracle to host CRM on-demand from Sydney

Selects HarbourMSP to offer hosted service.
Brett Winterford Sep 22 2010 2:34PM Networking
Red Hat hits back at Ellison

Red Hat hits back at Ellison

Defends performance, speed of updates.
Brett Winterford Sep 22 2010 1:20PM Software
Twitter.com plagued with malware

Twitter.com plagued with malware

Update: Microblogging site fixes flaw.
Brett Winterford Sep 22 2010 12:01AM Security
Hurd makes brief return to the spotlight

Hurd makes brief return to the spotlight

Oracle co-president announces new Exadata product.
Brett Winterford Sep 21 2010 6:35AM Storage
Oracle releases its own Linux kernel

Oracle releases its own Linux kernel

Slams partner Red Hat over slow updates.
Brett Winterford Sep 21 2010 6:06AM Software
Oracle releases monster "private cloud" box

Oracle releases monster "private cloud" box

Introduces the "Exalogic Elastic Compute Cloud".
Brett Winterford Sep 20 2010 2:08PM Storage
VMware to overhaul service provider licensing

VMware to overhaul service provider licensing

Shifts vSphere to memory-based licensing.
Brett Winterford Sep 2 2010 12:13PM Software
VMware's Maritz "flattered" by Microsoft campaign

VMware's Maritz "flattered" by Microsoft campaign

"Pot, kettle, black."
Brett Winterford Sep 1 2010 9:57AM Software
Optus bursts out VMware secure hybrid cloud service

Optus bursts out VMware secure hybrid cloud service

Includes Alphawest in Australia.
Brett Winterford Sep 1 2010 9:37AM Security
Optus bursts out secure hybrid cloud service

Optus bursts out secure hybrid cloud service

Singled out by VMware as enterprise cloud compute of choice in Asia.
Brett Winterford Sep 1 2010 6:37AM Storage
iTnews asks: Can a caretaker Government sign ACTA?

iTnews asks: Can a caretaker Government sign ACTA?

How Australia's political uncertainty could impact global negotiations.
Brett Winterford Aug 31 2010 11:28AM Networking
AussieHQ in Uber enterprise overhaul

AussieHQ in Uber enterprise overhaul

Eyes Federal Government customers with high availability solution.
Brett Winterford Aug 30 2010 6:22AM Storage
Excom enters liquidation

Excom enters liquidation

Dye and Company appointed to wind up company.
Brett Winterford Aug 25 2010 5:30PM Software

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