Cloud stories

GitHub will cut Actions hosted runner prices by up to 39% from 2026 while adding a new USD $0.002-a-minute fee for self-hosted use.

Fortinet embeds its FortiGate firewall on NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, offloading AI data centre security from host CPUs to isolated hardware.

Energy bills surge for Australian SMEs as federal rebates end, driving cost cuts, delayed investment and a pivot to digital and AI tools.

APAC firms are shifting from AI pilots to real-time, scaled deployments in 2026 as data, ROI demands and regulation rapidly converge.

Atturra closes 2025 with a sweep of APAC tech and industry awards, cementing its rise as a regional IT services heavyweight.

ServiceNow buys AI assistant specialist Moveworks to create a single conversational ‘front door’ into automated workflows across the enterprise.

Fortinet and Nvidia move firewall and zero-trust controls onto BlueField DPUs, promising low-latency, fabric-level security for AI data centres.

Safe Software named niche player in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, its sixth consecutive appearance in the report.

AI is transforming Christmas CX from chaotic surge to controlled service, helping teams stay resilient, protect wellbeing and meet soaring demand.

BluSky AI hires finance leader Riley Cooney as corporate development and strategy chief to accelerate its modular AI data centre expansion.

Forrester predicts AI-native clouds will reap USD $20 billion and digital workers will reshape enterprise software and development by 2026.

Sarah-Jane Peterschlingmann has been elected ACS Queensland chair for 2026/2027, the branch’s first woman leader in 15 years.

Dell forecasts APAC shift from AI pilots to agentic and sovereign platforms, with tighter governance and large-scale production rollouts.

QuoteCheck unveils AI-driven platform using live local building rates to help Australian insurers curb soaring home repair costs.

Macquarie Technology names Marija Harris to lead Macquarie Telecom from 2026 as veteran Luke Clifton shifts to a governance-focused director role.

Spark NZ taps HPE GreenLake and Morpheus to rebuild hybrid cloud, boosting automation and managed services for Kiwi enterprise clients.

Australian start-up Restoke.ai launches its AI ‘restaurant manager’ in the US, promising to boost margins and automate back-of-house work.

Cloudflare warns 2025 brings surging AI traffic, record DDoS attacks and escalating Internet ‘bot wars’ as civil groups face rising threats.

New Zealand composites specialist C-Tech adopts Dassault’s cloud 3DEXPERIENCE CAD to unify design, simulation and manufacturing across sites.

Nutanix launches distributed sovereign cloud upgrades to secure AI and Kubernetes workloads across dark sites, public clouds and on-premise.