Macquarie Telecom Group is now a member of the VMware Sovereign Cloud initiative. [ + ]

The NSW Telco Authority has deployed 250 new or upgraded radio sites for its Public Safety Network for emergency services and related organisations. [ + ]

DCI has secured land and power to build a 20 MW, TIER-III, Zone 3+, secure cloud edge data centre to service the Canberra market. [ + ]

More than four in five Australians expect the majority of government services to be available online within five years, research from VMware has found. [ + ]

Austrade and Microsoft have announced a new program to help local SaaS solution providers accelerate international growth. [ + ]

Airbus Defence and Space will establish an assembly and integration presence at Australian Space Park in Adelaide. [ + ]

Bundaberg Regional Council has achieved an ambitious goal to become a cloud-first council. [ + ]

A new chatbot co-designed by the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing and ThinkHQ is delivering vital information to CALD communities.

VisualCortex has partnered with the University of Wollongong, joining its R&D hub for Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIOT) solutions. [ + ]

Austrade has gone live with Kapish's secure cloud-based record management system. [ + ]

Fujitsu Australia has entered a five-year engagement with NSW RFS that will see it digitise mission-critical systems. [ + ]

Google Cloud has achieved Certified Strategic Status under the federal government's Hosting Certification Framework. [ + ]

MNF Enterprise has launched Symbio Enterprise Calling, designed to streamline Teams phone system deployment and management. [ + ]

Queensland's Bruce Highway is getting an upgrade, thanks to the installation of 'smart motorways' technology. [ + ]

The Victorian Government has signed a state purchase agreement with AWS covering agencies procuring any of AWS's more than 200 cloud services. [ + ]