The Australian Computer Society, which is moving to incorporation, is facilitating the establishment of a new early stage tech investment fund, kicking off the fund with a $5 million investment and a call for other investors to join the scheme.

Also, Australia should develop a systemised and standardised safe data sharing regime with independent verification demonstrating the benefit to the community, according to a new report on data privacy by the Australian Computer Society.

Data protection and software-defined storage specialist Veritas Technologies is one of the first vendors to announce support for AWS Outposts. In addition, data management vendor Cohesity has validated Cohesity DataPlatform and Cohesity DataProtect software on AWS Outposts.

The global telecoms sector will thrive in 2020, but individual operators could face challenges, particularly over 5G, according to a new report by The Economist Intelligence Unit.

Boutique broadband retail service provider Aussie Broadband has opened a new office in Lynbrook in the outer South East of Melbourne, with one of the company's customers officially opening the office at a ceremony on Wednesday.

Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake has launched its Private Data Exchange. The new Private Data Exchange mains to make it easier to securely share data.

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