Cloud Services stories - Page 453
Over the last decade the IT world has seen a mass transition from in-house computer assets to everything-as-a-service in the cloud, with hardware, platform and services now all commonly cloud-resident. Ideally positioned to support distributed working and working from home, most major players are currently moving or planning to move more than half of their operations to the cloud. The current direction of travel is to multi-cloud deployment, seen as providing greater flexibility, specialisation and security.
The main bumps in the road have shown up in skills shortages reported by many organisations, complexity leading to misconfiguration and the need to operate and integrate multiple security dashboards. Consequently, third-party cloud security providers are a hot growth area.
Hills top dog for Ruckus Wireless
Fri, 22nd May 2015
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Hills has taken out the Distributor of the Year award for Ruckus Wireless, after helping grow the vendor’s Australian revenues by 30% year on year.
Seagate targets Qnap in NZ with SMB focused NAS offering
Thu, 21st May 2015
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Seagate targets New Zealand's SMB market with a NAS offering, partnering with local tech distributor Connector Systems, challenging Qnap and Synology.
Delaware North launches into cloud backup with AirShare and CTERA
Thu, 21st May 2015
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Backing up corporate data in remote locations in the Northern Territory or Great Barrier Reef has its challenges.
MuleSoft brings another Kiwi partner on board
Thu, 21st May 2015
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MuleSoft has teamed up with New Zealand consultancy Tenzing to offer management and technology consulting services for its Anypoint Platform.
VMware Horizon Air cloud services coming to Australia
Wed, 20th May 2015
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VMware Horizon Air expands to Australia, setting the stage as the industry's top distributed desktop-as-a-service provider.
Equinix deploys Azure ExpressRoute into Melbourne data centre
Wed, 20th May 2015
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Global interconnection company Equinix has today announced it has deployed Azure ExpressRoute into its Melbourne data centre, ME1.
AWS launches education initiative
Wed, 20th May 2015
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched AWS Educate to provide students and educators with four resources: credits, training, content and collaboration.
Kiwi online ticketing platform sings Azure praises
Wed, 20th May 2015
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NZ-based ticketing platform iTICKET is readying itself for a new phase of growth after migrateing to Microsoft’s Azure datacentres in Australia.
Ingram Micro Cloud inks PGi deal for iMeet
Tue, 19th May 2015
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Ingram Micro Cloud enhances its suite with PGi's iMeet for seamless virtual meetings, promising cost-saving and productivity boosts.
Microsoft backs IT professionals
Tue, 19th May 2015
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In response to these growing challenges of a mobile first, cloud first world, Microsoft is more committed than ever to the millions of IT pros.
Government ICT spend to exceed $6.2 billion by 2018
Tue, 19th May 2015
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Government spend to exceed $6.2 billion by 2018, driven by cost savings and efficiency gains and improving service delivery investments.
New Zealanders: Be smarter with your data
Mon, 18th May 2015
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Australiasian Consumer Fraud Week starts today, with the aim of raising awareness about scammers and encouraging NZers to be smarter with their data.
Boom times for cloud services as NZ businesses jump onboard
Mon, 18th May 2015
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Cloud-based services in NZ are expected to record a staggering 15-27% CAGR out to 2019 according to a new IDC report, with IT budgets also on the up.
Wi-Fi calling dials New Zealand
Fri, 15th May 2015
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With Skype and WhatsApp snapping at their heels, mobile phone operators are turning to Wi-Fi calling of their own, aided by iOS 8 and Hotspot 2.0.
Wellington City Council consolidates and gets SaaS-y
Fri, 15th May 2015
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Wellington City Council is consolidating many of its more than 120 current separate IT systems onto TechnologyOne’s cloud platform.
Distribution Central cloud offering making resellers ‘heroes’ again
Thu, 14th May 2015
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Distribution Central will launch its revamped DC CloudSelect Marketplace next Monday, promising potential revenue gains for resellers.
New tool to help Kiwi SMBs prepare for disruption
Thu, 14th May 2015
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New Zealand SMEs ill-prepared for disasters & the loss of key staff, but a new tool could change that. http://bit.ly/1RJVoAp.
Victorious Veeam slams Symantec following patent win
Thu, 14th May 2015
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Symantec's bid to 'stifle competition' because 'its legacy physical backup products could not compete' fails after Veeam wins three year patent battle.
Third platform focus will bring 'much higher margins'
Wed, 13th May 2015
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Avnet is looking for double digit growth and higher margins as it eyes up the ‘golden opportunity’ of the third platform - and new resellers.
Acronis gets personal, launches backup service in ANZ
Wed, 13th May 2015
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Acronis has launched its Acronis Backup Service and its new software-defined storage data centre for the ANZ region.