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

Farmers: dig your own trench for NBN access

Farmers: dig your own trench for NBN access

Telecommunications analysts say there may be one way to ensure regional Australians can connect to the fibre network that underlies the NBN - by digging their own trenches.
Brett Winterford May 15 2009 3:08PM Telco/ISP
Hostworks spends $5m on new IT systems

Hostworks spends $5m on new IT systems

Web hosting company Hostworks is spending $5 million on new IT systems in an attempt to gain more enterprise business.
Brett Winterford May 15 2009 12:03AM Storage
iPhone crimps Optus profit

iPhone crimps Optus profit

The popular device's success is a two-edged sword for Optus.
Brett Winterford May 14 2009 1:06PM Telco/ISP
Minchin passes motion to block NBN debate

Minchin passes motion to block NBN debate

Shadow communications minister Nick Minchin gave Senator Conroy until 6:50pm yesterday to make public the NBN Panel of Experts report and an associated report by the ACCC.
Brett Winterford May 13 2009 4:42PM Telco/ISP
CeBIT09: Feds ahead of schedule on Gershon goals

CeBIT09: Feds ahead of schedule on Gershon goals

Federal agencies are by and large ahead of schedule in terms of realising the cost cuts stipulated by the Government in the wake of the Gershon report, with $109 million of savings identified thus far.
Brett Winterford May 13 2009 10:33AM Strategy
CeBIT09: Federal CIO rules out super data centre

CeBIT09: Federal CIO rules out super data centre

Australian Government CIO Ann Steward has ruled out the possibility of the Federal Government building its own supersized data centre to support all its agencies to meet recommendations in the Gershon Review.
Brett Winterford May 13 2009 10:15AM Storage
Analysis: Industry groups jostle for NBN influence

Analysis: Industry groups jostle for NBN influence

Australia's ICT industry groups all want to claim credit for the NBN and play a strategic role in its development. But who has sway over the industry or Government?
Brett Winterford May 13 2009 6:01AM Telco/ISP
CeBIT09: Skellern calls for industry cohesion around NBN

CeBIT09: Skellern calls for industry cohesion around NBN

NICTA chief executive Dr David Skellern has called on the ICT sector to form a united voice as multiple splintered industry groups jostle for a position of influence on the Federal Government's proposed National Broadband Network (NBN).
Brett Winterford May 13 2009 5:56AM Telco/ISP
Five ICT issues to watch in tonight's budget

Five ICT issues to watch in tonight's budget

What will Treasurer Wayne Swan's record $58 billion budget deficit mean for the local IT industry?
Brett Winterford May 12 2009 5:55AM Financial Services
PKBA ousts Datacom at Australian Central Credit Union

PKBA ousts Datacom at Australian Central Credit Union

PKBA has beaten incumbent provider Datacom and fellow tenderer Alphawest to a contract to provide managed IT and telecommunications services to the Australian Central Credit Union.
Brett Winterford May 11 2009 1:11PM Strategy
Storm II, cheap Curves coming to Blackberry

Storm II, cheap Curves coming to Blackberry

Research in Motion is working on a new version of the Blackberry Bold that combines a touch screen with a QWERTY keyboard, a low-cost version of the Curve and a successor to the Storm featuring a tactile touch screen, according to sources.
Brett Winterford May 7 2009 3:38AM Hardware
Interview: RIM founder and CEO, Mike Lazaridis

Interview: RIM founder and CEO, Mike Lazaridis

RIM co-founder Mike Lazaridis sits down with iTnews editor Brett Winterford to discuss how the Blackberry will survive the onset of new competition.
Brett Winterford May 5 2009 2:26PM Hardware
Blackberry 'push' technology opened to developers

Blackberry 'push' technology opened to developers

Research in Motion has announced that the prized 'push' technology behind its Blackberry email service is now available to third party developers.
Brett Winterford May 5 2009 11:07AM Software
RIM adds failover to Blackberry Enterprise Server

RIM adds failover to Blackberry Enterprise Server

Research in Motion has announced a new version of Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) that allows carriers and enterprise administrators to failover from one server to another.
Brett Winterford May 5 2009 6:47AM Hardware
Revealed: Lessons from WebCentral's 72-hour email outage

Revealed: Lessons from WebCentral's 72-hour email outage

Melbourne IT chief technical officer Glenn Gore gives iTnews a blow-by-blow account of how a SAN failure at WebCentral’s data centre led to 200,000 customers losing e-mail access for three days.
Brett Winterford May 4 2009 12:23PM Storage
Wage freeze follows redundancies at CSC

Wage freeze follows redundancies at CSC

CSC management has instituted a wage freeze and will not rule out new redundancies after a restructure announced last week.
Brett Winterford May 4 2009 6:29AM Training & Development
WebCentral email saga finally over

WebCentral email saga finally over

Some 72 hours into an outage that left WebCentral customers without access to managed exchange, POP email or webmail, customers of the Melbourne-IT owned hosting company finally report being able to once again access e-mail.
Brett Winterford May 1 2009 3:36PM Storage
Asus scores Tassie IT hardware contract

Asus scores Tassie IT hardware contract

Taiwanese PC vendor Asus is in the running for hardware contracts worth over $120 million a year after being added to a list of approved hardware suppliers to Tasmanian Government agencies.
Brett Winterford May 1 2009 3:05PM Hardware
UPDATE: Staff report CSC axing 150-170 local workers

UPDATE: Staff report CSC axing 150-170 local workers

CSC insiders in contact with iTnews have been told that some 150-170 Australian staff will be made redundant under the American giant's cost-cutting plan.
Brett Winterford May 1 2009 3:00PM Training & Development
Watchlist reveals US hypocrisy on IP laws

Watchlist reveals US hypocrisy on IP laws

A study shows US scorn for other countries’ IP protection law is matched by some relatively lax laws at home.
Brett Winterford Apr 30 2009 11:28AM Strategy

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