SIX areas on the Mornington Peninsula suffer housing stress 33 per cent higher than the national average. They are Bittern/Crib Point, Dromana/Safety Beach, Hastings, Rosebud and surrounding district, Rye/Tootgarook/St Andrews Beach and Portsea/Sorrento/Blairgowrie. A household under stress is defined as being one that spends more than 30 per cent of its gross income on rent or housing costs. Data from the latest census (2016) shows the peninsula has the sixth highest number of rough sleepers of Victoria’s 79 municipalities. Their plight is compounded by an under-supply of affordable and social housing, particularly one or two-bedroom dwellings, and that there is…
For enterprises that not only want to survive but compete effectively against their peers, the adoption of cloud computing has become an imperative.
More and more enterprises are opting for a multi-cloud strategy to take advantage of the different services offered by different vendors. However, as enterprises embrace the benefits of multi-cloud, they are forced to face the reality of increased security risks.
Transformation requires IT leaders to rethink their data protection and governance strategies. How they should deal with new cloud-native attack vectors that do not exist in the world of premise-based data centres is a topic that experts gathered to discuss at a recent TechCentral round table.
Although we are seeing a surge of movement toward the cloud, especially during the Covid-19 work-from-home era, many companies still see the mainframe as relevant and are building it into their architecture in a way that limits security issues.
Speaking at a Micro Focus panel to discuss the issue of mainframe and access control, as well as why this almost 80-year-old technology is still being used, despite a shift to the cloud, Absa’s head of mainframe and utility services, Grant Fendick, said that the mainframe has been the technology foundation for many large institutions, and has become one of the “sexiest dinosaurs” around.