Cost stories

"When a data breach hits, real people lose real money - it goes way past the upfront costs that accompany stolen records and the number of people affected."

IBM Security has released its annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, showing the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million in 2023.

Large-scale enterprises can no longer get away with simply having on-premises systems; hence, migrating some digital operations to the cloud has become necessary.

CMC Markets has entered a three-year partnership with KiwiHarvest to support its mission of addressing Aotearoa’s pressing hunger and food waste crises.

Nutanix's survey found enterprises prioritising cross-platform visibility and management to stay ahead of the preferred mixed IT curve.

New updates to NetSuite Analytics Warehouse help simplify data management and provide faster, easier access to multidimensional insights.

Technology vendors and retailers need to consider the margins and value of their offerings to provide the right mix of affordable ‘value range’ and premium products.

Organisations want a single hybrid multi-cloud platform to run applications and manage data across diverse IT environments, Nutanix finds.

Alex Tupman, CEO of Espria, reveals why adopting sustainable business practices is a lucrative opportunity, not a sacrifice.

Knowing how to start is a challenge that can seem insurmountable. It’s useful to examine smart cities, smart buildings and smart utilities as these markets represent a diverse set of applications but face many of the same challenges.

Businesses can get extensive use for their specific needs on the Salesforce platform. The most important thing is to find the best application for your business.

Barracuda Networks has published its 2023 Email Security Trends report that shows how email-based security attacks affect organisations both in AU and globally.

Something interesting is happening in cloud finance management, and the way to think about this is: there’s more than one way to skin the cloud costs problem.

Many businesses are asking what they can do to protect their bottom line from the devastation of cyber-attacks, or worse, significant or unrecoverable data centre downtime.

CAST AI provides a cloud cost optimisation and reporting platform for cloud-native applications on AWS, Google and Azure, reducing cloud compute costs by 50-75% in minutes.

As a Managed Service Provider, you know the Microsoft suite better than any telco ever will. But how do you retain ownership of the ecosystem, ensure system security, and minimise churn risk?

A new project merging local councils' water service IT systems as part of the three waters reforms could blow out beyond the $500 million upper limit officials have quoted, National says.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions released the latest APAC edition of the True Cost of Fraud Study, which surveyed 387 risk and fraud executives.

Progressive job-based businesses can achieve success by strengthening their ability to quantify every cost attributable to the delivery of an outcome for a customer.

Many organisations are thinking about moving to the cloud. But what are the signs you are ready, and what are the reasons to move?

"In challenging times, CFOs look to determine how they can do things differently and as a result, new ideas about future growth emerge."

New data from Uptime Institute has found that downtime costs and consequences are worsening as those involved in data infrastructure fail to find ways to curb outages.

Since gaining incredible momentum over the past couple of years, digital transformation of business operations by local SMEs hasn't slowed down.

A global shortage of computer chips is likely to persist for another 18 months, according to an Australasian manufacturing business.