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

OECD report highlights strengths and flaws in NBN plan

OECD report highlights strengths and flaws in NBN plan

iTnews weighs up the Rudd Government's NBN plan against the OECD's latest advice on how governments should invest in the construction of national broadband networks.
Brett Winterford May 27 2009 12:09AM Telco/ISP
Centrelink boosts self-service with voice biometrics

Centrelink boosts self-service with voice biometrics

Centrelink customers will be able to authenticate access to welfare services via the unique properties of their voice after a biometric voice system officially went into production today.
Brett Winterford May 26 2009 4:23PM Software
Competition Tribunal squashes Telstra's claim against Optus

Competition Tribunal squashes Telstra's claim against Optus

The Competition Commission has rejected a claim by Telstra that it should not have to provide Optus access to its copper network in areas where Optus has built out its own cable network.
Brett Winterford May 26 2009 3:27PM Telco/ISP
Thodey promises Telstra staff "fair" pay negotiations

Thodey promises Telstra staff "fair" pay negotiations

Newly crowned Telstra CEO David Thodey has written to Telstra staff to reassure them they will receive “fair” treatment when negotiating enterprise agreements once the Federal Government’s workplace reforms are introduced in July.
Brett Winterford May 26 2009 9:30AM Telco/ISP
Vodafone and 3 make last ditch appeal to ACCC

Vodafone and 3 make last ditch appeal to ACCC

Vodafone and 3 have promised not to raise prices for two years of competition regulator ACCC allows the two mobile operators to merge.
Brett Winterford May 26 2009 9:25AM Telco/ISP
Ministers agree to national e-waste regulation

Ministers agree to national e-waste regulation

Federal and state environment ministers have agreed to a national waste strategy that should result in laws requiring PC equipment makers to recycle their products.
Brett Winterford May 22 2009 5:39PM Strategy
Telstra culled linesmen in flood-affected NSW

Telstra culled linesmen in flood-affected NSW

Telstra is sending 130 network engineers to a flood-ravaged area in which the telco culled nine linesmen just two months ago, according to the CEPU.
Brett Winterford May 22 2009 3:43PM Telco/ISP
Brisbane data centres unscathed by flood

Brisbane data centres unscathed by flood

Data Centres in Brisbane have come through the worst rainstorm in three decades unscathed, as flooding took its toll on telecommunications lines and other key infrastructure.
Brett Winterford May 22 2009 3:30PM Networking
NBN plan sparks new facility for fibre specialists

NBN plan sparks new facility for fibre specialists

The announcement of a homegrown National Broadband Network (NBN) has spurred on local fibre optics company Warren and Brown to build a $4.1m R&D and distribution facility in Melbourne.
Brett Winterford May 22 2009 2:25PM Telco/ISP
ACCC hearts NBN, predicts end to Foxtel monopoly

ACCC hearts NBN, predicts end to Foxtel monopoly

ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel has given the Federal Government's National Broadband Network plan a big thumbs up, endorsing structural separation and predicting the end of Foxtel's dominance of Pay TV.
Brett Winterford May 21 2009 6:05PM Telco/ISP
EDS swipes $96m DAFF deal from ghost of Commander

EDS swipes $96m DAFF deal from ghost of Commander

HP-owned EDS has notched up another Government scalp, winning a tender to provide $96 million worth of ICT services to the Federal Department of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry (DAFF).
Brett Winterford May 21 2009 3:41PM Telco/ISP
NetApp buys Data Domain as profit sinks

NetApp buys Data Domain as profit sinks

Storage vendor NetApp has shelled out US$1.5 billion for Data Domain, the American leader in data de-duplication technology.
Brett Winterford May 21 2009 10:21AM Storage
Virtualisation loses its lustre at USQ

Virtualisation loses its lustre at USQ

If you think server virtualisation is a walk in the park, Brian Kissell, chief technology officer at the University of Southern Queensland, has a few lessons you should probably hear.
Brett Winterford May 21 2009 6:13AM Software
Charity to host the NetApp $1m storage challenge

Charity to host the NetApp $1m storage challenge

A group of IT managers that run the systems of some of Australia's largest charities will host the benchmarking of NetApp's $1 million storage challenge.
Brett Winterford May 21 2009 6:08AM Storage
Democrats launch anti-filtering site

Democrats launch anti-filtering site

The Democrats party has launched an anti-censorship web site in the hope of rallying the opponents of internet filtering to its cause.
Brett Winterford May 20 2009 11:14AM Telco/ISP
Minchin rebuked by Expert Panel 'whistleblowers'

Minchin rebuked by Expert Panel 'whistleblowers'

Opposition Senator Nick Minchin has dubbed members of the NBN Expert Panel 'whistleblowers', quoting controversial comments the panelists have made in public forums.
Brett Winterford , Ben Grubb May 19 2009 5:30PM Telco/ISP
Optus calls for Telstra split by 2010

Optus calls for Telstra split by 2010

Optus has made a submission to the Federal Government's review of telecommunications regulation calling for Telstra to be structurally separated by 2010.
Brett Winterford May 19 2009 3:09PM Telco/ISP
NAB trials off-grid power and Kyoto cooling in data centre

NAB trials off-grid power and Kyoto cooling in data centre

The National Australia Bank (NAB) is trialling radical power generation and cooling technologies in its data centre after being disappointed with the lack of power savings yielded from server virtualisation.
Brett Winterford May 19 2009 6:01AM Storage
CBA's NetBank gets personal touch

CBA's NetBank gets personal touch

The Commonwealth Bank has launched a new feature on its NetBank online banking site that allows users to choose how their financial data is presented to them.
Brett Winterford May 18 2009 4:30PM Software
Minchin tries FOI to access NBN Expert Panel report

Minchin tries FOI to access NBN Expert Panel report

Opposition Senator Nick Minchin has submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request in an attempt to expose to the public both the Expert Panel report and accompanying ACCC report into the failed National Broadband Network tender.
Brett Winterford May 18 2009 1:27PM Telco/ISP

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