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• Equinix opens largest Australian data centre, SY5

  Equinix has officially opened its largest data centre in Australia to date, SY5 located in Alexandria across from SY4. The facility currently offers 1825 cabinets and has capacity for 9,225 cabinets. The data centre cost $224 million and is part of a $2.7 billion investment across the world.

• Government could learn from Equinix's security protocol, Labor MP says

  Government could learn a thing or two from private sector said Shadow Assistant Minister for Financial Services and for the Republic Matt Thistlethwaite during the opening of Equinix's eighth Sydney IBX data centre.

• WA government expands police drone fleet

  The West Australian government has announced WA Police will train up to 60 drone pilots over the next two years as it adds up to 35 new remotely piloted aircraft to its fleet.

• How much does it cost to launch a cyberattack?

  Just like in regular business, cyber criminals have a cost of operation and a return on investment to worry about. Unfortunately, a new report from Deloitte has found the cost of committing cyber crime is incredibly low.

• Facebook unites payment service across apps with Facebook Pay

  Facebook said on Tuesday it was launching Facebook Pay, a unified payment service through which users across its platforms including WhatsApp and Instagram can make payments without exiting the app.

• SAP to streamline hardware infrastructure in drive to lift margins

  German business software group SAP plans to streamline its hardware infrastructure while holding research development costs steady, an executive said on Tuesday.

• How to lock down enterprise web browsers

  Your organization's web browser is essentially your operating system for the cloud. Secure it appropriately.

• CBA’s Adam Bennett to depart bank in early 2020

  The Commonwealth Bank’s group executive, business and private banking, Adam Bennett, will leave at the end of January, CBA has announced.

• OpenJDK repo migration to GitHub gains steam

  A formal OpenJDK proposal calls for migrating Java source code repositories to the popular code-hosting platform

• Getting started with master data management: Think big, start small

  Poor data quality is the unintended consequence of data silos and a lack of data and analytics governance. It results in suboptimal decision making and poor organisational performance.

• Google ponders shaming slow websites inside Chrome

  In a bid to push website developers to speed up their site response times, Google may start flagging those that load slowly.

• Pulumi infrastructure-as-code tool adds .NET language support

  Pulumi allows devs and ops to provision and manage infrastructure on Kubernetes and public clouds using popular programming languages

• How to identify your leadership style

  As the realities of and expectations about work have evolved, so too has the concept of leadership. While once typically attributed to management roles, leadership is increasingly important in roles that involve stronger elements of communicating vision, and inspiring and empowering teams.

• IBM: ‘Mac users are happier and more productive’

  IBM, which has embraced Apple hardware in a big way, says the employees who use Macs are more likely to stay at the company.

• Unbox it and it's good to go: How Brisbane Catholic Education slashed device deployment times

  Before turning to VMware’s digital workspace platform, deploying a hundred devices to end users would take Brisbane Catholic Education’s IT team days. But rolling out VMware Workspace ONE has meant that it's less than a day’s work, according to BCE senior IT officer Paul Saltmarsh.