Most medium-to-large organisations in Australia have realised the business benefits of implementing a streamlined approach to the IT and development teams, or DevOps. [ + ]

La Trobe University is deploying SAP's Simple Finance and Lifecycle Management suites as part of a five-year strategic transformation plan. [ + ]

This week we look at ANZ's embarrassing spreadsheet fail, a $200m rocket that went nowhere, Elon Musk's fear of demons, James Cameron's fear of the SkyNet and how to prevent hackers from switching off your pacemaker. [ + ]

The government has introduced legislation that would compel local telcos to retain customer metadata for up to two years. [ + ]

The CSIRO's free Workspace software suite is designed to make it easier for researchers to analyse complex data sets and publish the results. [ + ]

iiNet has teamed up with the Victorian government to deploy a $6.7m free Wi-Fi network in the CBDs of Melbourne, Ballarat and Bendigo. [ + ]

In 2014, network managers and engineers at all levels have access to levels of technology that would have been undreamed of only a few short years ago. But despite all the advances, there are potential bottlenecks looming. [ + ]

NSW's privacy commissioner has expressed concern over delays implementing privacy process reforms for NSW Government departments. [ + ]

Claims of a data breach involving the personal information of hundreds of asylum seekers have been reported to the AFP; the ACCC will ignore payments that Telstra receives from its $11.2 billion agreement with NBN Co; and EMC has confirmed it will buy the majority of Cisco's stake in VCE. [ + ]

Microsoft has rolled out its latest Azure Geo cloud services offering in Australia and has already signed up an impressive list of launch customers. [ + ]

As the amount of machine-generated data begins to outstrip human-generated data, the availability of skilled big data experts is not keeping up. How should enterprises tackle the growing skills gap? [ + ]

iiNet will oppose a discovery request filed to the Federal Court from the owners of the Dallas Buyers Club IP over concerns the information would be used for legal extortion of some of its users. [ + ]

This week we report on the error that led to a 'Pink Panther' crook being released early, the coming 'epidemic' of big data 'false positives', millions of internet-connected critical infrastructure devices that are wide open to hacking and ASIO accidentally monitoring itself. Oh, and some cool robot videos. [ + ]

Data-intensive applications are stimulating spending on cloud services among Australian organisations, particularly IaaS and SaaS, according to Frost & Sullivan. [ + ]

Google had added the option to use a physical USB - instead of a code - as a two-factor authentication method when logging into Google and other sites. [ + ]