Simon Sharwood
Recent articles by Simon Sharwood
Xero’s DevOps drive zeros in on twice-daily updates
AWS migration swept away infrastructure team.
Oct 18 2018 11:19AM
Virtual graphics cards create critical VMware risk
Guest-host escape on vSphere and desktop hypervisors.
Oct 17 2018 10:09AM
Cisco says WebEx is totally fixed now (except for two problems)
Outage and subsequent wobbles lasted 20 days.
Oct 17 2018 6:52AM
Urbis files plans for Brisbane data centre build
Correction: AirTrunk not involved in four-hall 10 MW affair.
Oct 16 2018 6:03AM
BI-trained execs dip into data lake at cargo company LINX
“Data insiders” program makes analytics self-service.
Oct 15 2018 8:46PM
IBM brings elastic licensing to mainframes
Z gets a little bit cloudier.
Oct 14 2018 3:57PM
Senate inquiry signs off My Health Record's new private parts
But ALP and Greens call for extension of opt-out and extra protections.
Oct 12 2018 6:07PM
NSW Family Services staff given IT veto during transformation
Staff slashed from 22,000 to 8,000, with new workflow engine to ease the pain.
Oct 12 2018 5:32PM
iTnews survives autonomous bus ride
Survives the boredom, that is.
Oct 12 2018 10:54AM
TGA to update regulation for health apps
Or as medicos call them, “software as a medical device”.
Oct 11 2018 10:48AM
Flight Centre tech team apologised for doubting power of ITSM
Sometimes a transformation can just be proper processes.
Oct 10 2018 12:00PM
Comms Minister Fifield flags interest in GDPR-like laws
Says Internet no longer an ‘ungoverned space’ and era of hands-off regulation may need to end.
Oct 10 2018 6:36AM
ALP calls for crypto law debate to slow, for years if needed
And a reboot for NBN debate to focus on its purpose.
Oct 9 2018 9:51PM
Intel releases first Meltdown-and-Spectre-proof CPUs
Not all variants nobbled.
Oct 9 2018 12:12PM
Google Cloud product lead bails, explains why it lags AWS and Azure
Ignored containers for too long while it stressed startups and catchups.
Oct 9 2018 11:44AM
Big Dell investor to vote down re-float plan
Demands higher price for VMware tracking stock.
Oct 8 2018 3:30PM
AI to translate 700 Victorian medicos
Bendigo Health goes for cloudy integration and transcription.
Oct 8 2018 10:02AM
Cisco automatically deleted VMs hosting WebEx Teams
Causing week-long service outage.
Oct 5 2018 11:36AM
Melanoma Institute Australia creates secure workspace
Researchers share patient records between hospitals and offshore researchers.
Oct 5 2018 7:05AM
Tardy Cisco could confuse Office 365
Microsoft changed format of Office365 approved URLs list and Cisco blew the deadline.
Oct 3 2018 10:55PM
