Google today announced the opening of a new Melbourne region here in Australia. This joins the Sydney region that opened in 2017 and becomes the 27th Google Cloud region globally.



RMIT is set to become the first Australian university to implement a dedicated cloud supercomputing facility on Amazon Web Services to drive digital innovation in research and education at scale.

Independent non-partisan organisation Reset Australia says Facebook has profiled young users and teenagers with sensitive advertising content such as smoking, gambling, and extreme weight loss. The organisation calls for measures to regulate these ads.

Victoria University researchers wanted to predict domestic violence incidents by analysing social media data and turned to Oracle Cloud to provide the sheer computational grunt needed to support its deep learning models.

Software development and deployment tool specialist Progress has announced a new verison of Progress Telerik Test Studio, its enterprise UI test automation platform.

IT service management company DC Two has reached another milestone: it has been awarded certification of the internationally recognised ISO 27001 for data security. The recognition will not only enhance its reputation but also presents new opportunities, especially in the public sector.

Infrastructure provider Vertiv has hired two new people to its channel team.

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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