Four cloud companies have achieved Strategic Hosting Provider certification under the Federal Government's Hosting Certification Framework. One of them, Sliced Tech, was acquired by global consultancy Deloitte on Thursday.



A large majority of Australian and New Zealand organisations were not adequately prepared for COVID-19 and fear the increased risk they are being exposed to through working from home and flexible work policies, according to newly published survey findings.

44% of Australians regularly feel lonely. Nine in ten have experienced loneliness with almost half are embarrassed to talk about it, according to Telstra’s Talking Loneliness report. As a response, Telstra urged the public to be more open and start talking about loneliness, and acknowledge it.

Cohesity and Cisco have integrated Cohesity's Helios data management platform with Cisco's SecureX security platform with the goal of improving protection against ransomware.

Construction management software provider Procore Technologies has announced platform enhancements designed to deliver added flexibility and deeper insights for project teams.

AI-driven cloud platform provider Sisense has appointed Paul Scholey as vice president of international sales and Kristina Agassi as general counsel.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire

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