HPE has completed its US$40 per share acquisition of Juniper Networks after settling its dispute with the US Department of Justice. [ + ]

Research from exposure management company Tenable suggests that 70% of cloud AI workloads contain at least one unpatched critical vulnerability. [ + ]

A report commissioned by Ericsson finds that Australian businesses face connectivity challenges hindering innovation and growth. [ + ]

Cloudflare is now protecting online IP by blocking AI crawlers by default, and offering a permission‍-‍based approach that makes way for a new business model. [ + ]

IT consultancy HCLTech has become one of OpenAI's first strategic services partners. [ + ]

The Tech Council of Australia and techUK have formally signed an MOU to build a joint focus on emerging and critical technology areas including AI and digital identity.  [ + ]

A recent survey found that Australian ransom payments have decreased from 66% to 41% in the past year, and demands have dropped considerably in value. [ + ]

HPE and Veeam Software are expanding their collaboration to cover closer integration of the Veeam Data Platform with HPE virtualisation solutions. [ + ]

Barracuda Networks has introduced a new solution aimed at helping organisations uncover and mitigate even previously unknown vulnerabilities. [ + ]

Crowdstrike and AWS have partnered to make the Crowdstrike Falcon security platform available to AWS Security Incident Response customers on the AWS Marketplace. [ + ]

CommScope has launched a new line of fibre infrastructure products aimed at helping enterprise network providers support more devices and applications at the edge. [ + ]

A recent report exposes a serious vulnerability in the way many Australian organisations are managing their cloud infrastructure. [ + ]

Cloudflare's Log Explorer tool allows users to analyse security logs generated by the Cloudflare platform without the need for third party tools. [ + ]

Gartner predicts that 75% of analytics content will use GenAI for enhanced contextual intelligence by 2027. [ + ]

Broadcom has launched the latest evolution of its VMware Cloud Foundation virtualisation platform. [ + ]