A new report focusing on high-impact entrepreneurship in Australia highlights the need for a greater focus on commercialising research. [ + ]

Oxford academic and big data expert Viktor Mayer-Schönberger will deliver a lecture at the Powerhouse Museum on 5 November about the expected impact of the technology on Australian businesses. [ + ]

Brisbane's Data#3 has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to overhaul Edith Cowan University's communications network with the latest Cisco technology. [ + ]

A new Australian start-up has launched an innovative model for procuring services for a hybrid cloud ecosystem, while Verizon Enterprise and Equinix have brought new hybrid cloud services to the market.

A lack of industry and government focus and inconsistent regulation threatens to squander the potential $116bn positive impact on the Australian economy, according to an industry think tank. [ + ]

Apple earned nearly half of its revenue for the quarter ending in September from enterprise, according to CEO Tim Cook. [ + ]

Australian employers' lack of commitment to offering the ability to work from home could be costing the economy billions of dollars in lost productivity, research indicates. [ + ]

Too many organisations are putting off thinking about disaster recovery or using ineffective strategies, when newer approaches can solve the problem while reducing costs. [ + ]

The OAIC fielded 16,166 privacy inquiries and 110 data breach notifications during a busy 2014–15 and has subsequently joined counterparts in seven other nations to share details of privacy breach investigations. [ + ]

Monash University claims its infrastructure has reached new performance levels with the world's first end-to-end 100 G/s cloud. [ + ]

Australia has fallen behind Japan, South Korea and Singapore in the second annual comparison of the cyber maturity of mostly APAC countries conducted by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. [ + ]

Growing numbers of businesses are adopting the ‘bimodal IT’ approach to managing their IT infrastructures, helping them make the changes required while avoiding potential disruptions. [ + ]

Gartner expects Australian IT spending to grow 2.8% next year, with average IT budgets increasing by 2.9%, as a result of spending on digital business and the connected world. [ + ]

This week: Are you the next Luke Skywalker?, face recognition denies twin a driver's licence, flying cranes, remote control firefighting and yet another bank IT failure. [ + ]

Businesses can benefit tremendously by harmonising the myriad structured and unstructured data in their purview by garnering the right ecosystem of people, processes and platforms. [ + ]