Becoming a master salesperson is the way to cut through the solutions glut, find the right path for your organisation and advance your IT career. [ + ]

While Australia's total technology spending is on track to grow 2.6% in 2018, this will put the market behind the expected global spending growth rate of 4.3%, according to Gartner's latest forecast. [ + ]

A government contractor inadvertently left the personal information of thousands of public servants and private sector workers exposed in a misconfigured publicly accessible AWS cloud storage bucket. [ + ]

Responding to growing customer complaints over the quality of nbn services, the ACCC has launched a public inquiry into service standards at the wholesale level. [ + ]

Digital signature and transaction management company DocuSign will add to its presence in Australia by opening an Azure-based data centre built to the government's classified data handling standards. [ + ]

A survey of CIOs in 11 major global markets found that Australian CIOs are significantly more likely to be adopting machine learning than their global peers. [ + ]

Technology capable of achieving speeds of up to 1 Gbps over existing copper wiring will be deployed on the nbn starting next year, nbn co has announced. [ + ]

The ACCC has identified a range of measures for improving mobile coverage in the bush, but will stop short of requiring mobile operators to provide access to their infrastructure on request. [ + ]

The PM has attempted to shift the blame to Labor, asserting that setting up nbn co in the first place was a costly mistake. [ + ]

The federal government has announced a review of the management of the .au domain, the first such review for 16 years. [ + ]

A newly discovered flaw in the WPA2 encryption protocol used in all modern protected Wi-Fi networks could leave every connected device vulnerable to attack. [ + ]

Australian spending on public cloud services will grow 17.1% in 2017 to $5 billion, and further increase to $7.71 billion by 2020, Gartner projects. [ + ]

The nbn could be salvaged by providing fibre backhaul for mobile tower last-mile connections, Paul Budde has predicted. [ + ]

With cyber threats in Australia becoming more common and sophisticated, the government has urged victims to report attacks to help with efforts to counter the threat. [ + ]

The old adage that you can't manage what you can't measure is nowhere more apt than in data centre energy consumption. [ + ]