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• NT government prepares to launch digital strategy

  The Northern Territory government has announced the head of its new Office of Digital Government.

• ASX ‘increasingly confident’ of blockchain-inspired tech’s potential

  ASX’s chairperson, Rick Holliday-Smith, says the company is “increasingly confident” of the potential for a system based on blockchain-inspired distributed ledger technology (DLT) to replace the Australian Securities Exchange CHESS system.

• Macquarie Government’s cloud certified for use with classified data

  Macquarie Government — the government-focused business of the ASX-listed Macquarie Telecom Group — has joined the ranks of cloud providers whose services are certified for use with classified government information.

• Microsoft plans to replace Skype for Business with Teams

  The company’s Slack rival, launched six months ago, will ‘over time’ become the primary communications client in Office 365.

• SAP wants to embrace all your data stores with Data Hub

  If data warehouses are for tidiness freaks -- information packaged into neat inferences, sorted and stacked, the rest discarded -- and data lakes are for hoarders -- tip everything in, you never know what might be useful -- then SAP's new Data Hub may be for the rest of us.

• SAP buys Gigya to boost customer identity access management offering

  SAP is giving its business software users a new way to track their customers, with the acquisition of customer identity management specialist Gigya.

• How a data center works, today and tomorrow

  The future of data centers will rely on cloud, hyperconverged infrastructure and more powerful components

• Android file management: An easy-to-follow guide

  From managing files on your phone to seamlessly syncing folders with your computer, this guide will turn you into a certified Android file master.

• Facebook buckles under pressure over hated React license

  The popular JavaScript UI library’s BSD + Patent license will be replaced with the friendlier MIT license—but only if developers update their React code

• The importance of mentors in the IT industry

  Most people in the IT industry are aware of the perennial skills shortage and the need to find ways to address it effectively. One of the options that organisations could consider is implementing a mentoring program.