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

New IBM Nehalem servers feature altimeters

New IBM Nehalem servers feature altimeters

IBM's Nehalem-based servers are likely to use less power in low-lying Sydney than in cities with higher elevation.
Brett Winterford Apr 1 2009 3:58PM Hardware
IBM wins a slice of Energy Australia's smart grid

IBM wins a slice of Energy Australia's smart grid

IBM has won a $3.2 million systems integration deal to help Energy Australia capture and make use of the data drawn from its world-leading $170 million Intelligent Network or "smart grid".
Brett Winterford Apr 1 2009 12:19AM Telco/ISP
Expert predicts holograms, e-paper just years away

Expert predicts holograms, e-paper just years away

The holographic communication popularised in the film Star Wars is "less than a dozen years" from commercial reality, say experts, and that's just the start.
Brett Winterford Mar 31 2009 3:57PM Telco/ISP
ACMA to be given extra regulatory powers

ACMA to be given extra regulatory powers

The Federal Government will amend the Telecommunications Act to give the media watchdog the power to hand out red cards to telecoms providers who abuse self-regulation.
Brett Winterford Mar 31 2009 3:15PM Telco/ISP
Salesforce.com: Cloud Computing is a game-changer

Salesforce.com: Cloud Computing is a game-changer

Cloud computing is a game changer, says Salesforce.com exec Peter Coffee, and the usual list of barriers to adoption are mere "monsters under the bed."
Brett Winterford Mar 30 2009 4:02PM Networking
Study: Mobile Instant Messaging on the rise

Study: Mobile Instant Messaging on the rise

More and more Australian mobile phone users are using their mobile phones for instant messaging and social networking, according to new research by m.Net.
Brett Winterford Mar 30 2009 3:39PM Telco/ISP
Google closes Melbourne office

Google closes Melbourne office

Google will cut 15 sales employees from its Melbourne and New Zealand offices in line with a one per cent global reduction in staff.
Brett Winterford Mar 27 2009 4:46PM Training & Development
Censorship opponents slam website hack

Censorship opponents slam website hack

Opponents of the Federal Government's filtering scheme have condemned last night's hacking of one of its websites as damaging to their fight against censorship.
Brett Winterford Mar 27 2009 3:07PM Security
Censorship opponents slam website hack

Censorship opponents slam website hack

Opponents of the Federal Government's filtering scheme have condemned last night's hacking of one of its websites as damaging to their fight against censorship.
Brett Winterford Mar 27 2009 12:07PM Security
Optus remains Conroy's last big filtering hope

Optus remains Conroy's last big filtering hope

Optus has confirmed it is still in negotiations with the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy with a view to taking part in the trial of mandatory ISP-level internet filtering.
Brett Winterford Mar 27 2009 5:53AM Telco/ISP
Dell launches Nehalem-based servers and storage

Dell launches Nehalem-based servers and storage

Dell will today launch some 14 server and workstation products based on Intel’s Nehalem architecture.
Brett Winterford Mar 26 2009 6:00AM Hardware
Black day for Melbourne R&D as NEC & CA cut staff

Black day for Melbourne R&D as NEC & CA cut staff

NEC has announced it will retrench 153 positions from its facility in Mulgrave, Melbourne - the second international vendor to dramatically reduce its Melbourne R&D investments in a single day.
Brett Winterford Mar 25 2009 4:04PM Financial Services
Wikileaks domain holder raided

Wikileaks domain holder raided

Wikileaks claims the homes of the owner of its German domain (wikileaks.de) has been raided by Police in what the whistle-blowing site claims is a reaction to the publication of blacklists from Australia, Thailand and Denmark.
Brett Winterford Mar 25 2009 1:17PM Telco/ISP
CA cuts one third of its Melbourne developers

CA cuts one third of its Melbourne developers

International software vendor CA will make just under one third of its Australian R&D staff redundant as a result of recent acquistions.
Brett Winterford Mar 25 2009 12:38PM Security
Hacked filter reveals blacklist in 30 seconds

Hacked filter reveals blacklist in 30 seconds

A 30-second hack of a NetAlert-approved family-friendly filter exposes a list of websites banned in Australia.
Brett Winterford Mar 24 2009 3:56PM Telco/ISP
CenITex says Victorian Government data is safe

CenITex says Victorian Government data is safe

Victorian Government shared IT services provider CenITex has responded to allegations that it failed to provide backup services to the five agencies it served.
Brett Winterford Mar 24 2009 6:06AM Storage
Oz victims in the dark about credit card leak

Oz victims in the dark about credit card leak

Australians whose credit card details and other personal data have been exposed on the public Internet since Friday are yet to be contacted by their credit card merchants or law enforcement authorities.
Brett Winterford Mar 23 2009 3:25PM Security
ACMA blacklist proves too popular for Wikileaks

ACMA blacklist proves too popular for Wikileaks

An updated version of the ACMA blacklist has proven too popular for the servers at whistle-blowing site Wikileaks, which has been out of action for most of the weekend.
Brett Winterford Mar 23 2009 2:51PM Security
Federal Police swings into action on credit card leak

Federal Police swings into action on credit card leak

Officers from the Australian Federal Police have swung into action to mitigate the fallout from the exposure of about 19,000 credit card numbers, as uncovered by an Australian IT worker last week.
Brett Winterford Mar 23 2009 10:49AM Security
Federal Police swings into action on credit card leak

Federal Police swings into action on credit card leak

Officers from the Australian Federal Police have swung into action to mitigate the fallout from the exposure of about 19,000 credit card numbers, as uncovered by an Australian IT worker yesterday.
Brett Winterford Mar 20 2009 5:43PM Security

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