This month we lead with how Aussie Broadband built a high-performance private cloud with SUSE.

To stay competitive and maintain service reliability, Aussie Broadband w- now the fifth-largest retail internet provider in Australia – launched a major IT transformation with a goal to create a unified, scalable cloud hosting platform.

The telco chose to work with SUSE for its“ powerful” combination of performance, flexibility and support.

On p56, Ben O’ Shea, General Manager Transformation & Cloud, Aussie Broadband says how SUSE helped the telco simplify infrastructure, unify workloads and boost operational efficiency by up to 30 % as it scales its ISP services nationwide.

On p48 HKHA’ s Senior Systems Manager, Eric Ho, outlines the difference Cloudera makes in the management of both structured and unstructured data.

In CIO Opinion on p44, Victor Szczerba, Chief Commercial Officer, Pathway, says the splintering language model market holds opportunity for forwardthinking CIOs.

Organisations that prepare for AI models prioritising specialised functions are those that will lead during the next phase of AI, he says.

Get to Know on p79 has James Mystakidis, Group Executive, Macquarie Cloud Services, telling what time in tech has taught him so far.

That’ s just a sample of what’ s inside – enjoy the read.

Have an innovative month.

Serving millions of patients annually, Hong Kong Hospital Authority( HKHA) was keen to leverage Cloudera’ s real-time and streaming capabilities for incorporating real-time patient data.

Make stuff happen.

With over 9 million patient records under management and overseeing 43 hospitals, HKHA turned to Cloudera five years ago to streamline its data storage and manage patient information from the 30 different data source systems it receives.

Bill Tanner Editor

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