CBA bets on cloud and innovation

Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Cloud ServicesME Bank, which is a third of the way through a four year technology transformation including an overhaul of its core banking system, has settled on a Cisco/NetApp FlexPod solution running VMware as the platform for developing a private internal cloud.

Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: TechnologyCommonwealth Bank has upped the ante in terms of payments technology with the launch of an innovative open payment platform called Pi. In the process the bank signalled that it will also become more of a global tech-sector player and set up a financial app store.

Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: StrategyUK based Thunderhead, which supplies systems to manage all forms of communications, including social network interactions, between enterprises and their customers is planning on launching a cloud version of its system later this year, and is contemplating hosting a data centre in Australia.

Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Cloud ServicesA peering arrangement which will see Australia’s Academic and Research Network – AARNet - link directly to Amazon Web Services in Seattle and provide unmetered connection, is likely to spur the adoption of cloud services by Australia’s universities and research institutions.

Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Cloud ServicesIBM is now offering access to its SmartCloud Enterprise+ cloud service out of a data centre in NSW, ratcheting up competition among the slew of other local cloud service providers including major players such as Fujitsu, HP, Telstra and CSC.

Cloud computing becoming mainstream; mobile computing boosted by cloud services; and social networking - also a cloud based service - are tipped to drive, rather than support changes in business processes in Australia in 2012.

Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: TechnologyAfter investing $1.1 billion in its core systems revamp, Commonwealth Bank not surprisingly is now crowing over the competitive edge the bank claims it has delivered as the project edges toward completion.

Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: Cloud ServicesAny lingering scepticism about cloud computing has evaporated with almost six out of ten local organisations now using cloud services in some form or another, and almost two out of three organisations recognising that to ignore cloud services is to risk competitive disadvantage.

Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: StrategyListed communications business Salmat has launched a cloud based contact centre solution offering a locally developed voice biometric authentication system as an optional add-on.