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Heather Wright

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Australian Stories

Written by Heather

Comstor

Westcon-Comstor: Helping resellers grow profitability and services around Cisco

Westcon-Comstor is aiming to give its Australian Cisco resellers the edge with the launch of the distributor's Westcon-Comstor brand locally.

By Heather Wright • 4 min read • Tue, 20th Oct 2015

Partner Programmes

Kogan Mobile returns to telco market

Kogan Mobile partners with Vodafone to disrupt the telco space, offering bargain deals and Qantas points to savvy shoppers.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Mon, 19th Oct 2015

Unified Communications

NBN releases new rollout plan

The NBN has released a new three-year construction plan with construction to 7.5 million premises due to start in the next three years.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Fri, 16th Oct 2015

PS&C

PS&C ramps up people business with Bexton acquistion

PS&C has acquired IT services company Bexton to bolster its People business - with more acquisitions on the cards to bolster its Security business.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Fri, 16th Oct 2015

NetApp

Double glory as VMtech claims two NetApp partner awards

VMtech has claimed double glory at the NetApp Insight 2015 Conference, picking up awards for its FlexPod work - and an individual honour.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Thu, 15th Oct 2015

Global Stories

Written by Heather

Microsoft

UXC Eclipse expands viticulture reach with WineDirect buy

UXC Eclipse has continued its buying spree, snapping up WineDirect's ERP business to become the global leader in Dynamics NAV for the wine industry.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 20th Oct 2015

Firewalls

Fortinet named NZ Network Security Vendor of the Year

Fortinet has been awarded New Zealand Network Security Vendor of the Year 2015, by Frost & Sullivan on the back of increasing market share.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 20th Oct 2015

DevOps

Looking for digital staff? You'll need to get strategic...

More than half digital and mobile IT professionals are planning on changing jobs in the next year, making staff retention and attraction paramount.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Mon, 19th Oct 2015

Hyperscale

Equinix wins for green innovation leadership

Equinix has been awarded Frost & Sullivan's 2015 Asia Pacific Data Center Green Innovation Leadership award for the second year in a row.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Mon, 19th Oct 2015

Network Infrastructure

Converged infrastructure set to dominate in Q4

Converged infrastructure is the server infrastructure of choice for many in Q4, with VCE Vblock leading in adoption and Cisco prevalent.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Mon, 19th Oct 2015

Cybersecurity

Judging panel announced for iSANZ awards; still time to enter

A who's who of New Zealand's information security community are among the judging panel for the inaugural iSANZ InfoSec awards.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Mon, 19th Oct 2015

Network Infrastructure

Ruckus Wireless unleashes at Clooneys

Resellers headed to Clooney's on Friday night to hear about Ruckus Wireless' plans for the local market and catch up with Ruckus CEO, Selina Lo.

By Heather Wright • 1 min read • Mon, 19th Oct 2015

Internet of Things

Exclusive: Resellers must 'stretch and evolve' to win big in IoE

The internet of everything offers 'tremendous' opportunity for the reseller channel - but it may require some stretching and evolving says one expert.

By Heather Wright • 4 min read • Fri, 16th Oct 2015

Virtualisation

VMware ANZ channel chief moves on

John Donovan departs as VMware's ANZ channel chief for a US security firm after shaping the company's regional strategy for 5 years.

By Heather Wright • 1 min read • Fri, 16th Oct 2015

Komputer Kraft

KKC brings Tranxition desktop migration software to ANZ

ANZ company Komputer Kraft Consulting has inked a deal with Tranxition to distribute its Windows desktop migration software in ANZ and beyond.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Fri, 16th Oct 2015

DataCentre infrastructure

SQL Server 2005 EOL countdown begins – are you ready?

SQL Server 2005 support ends in less than six months and Microsoft is warning companies an upgrade before April is a necessary security decision.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Thu, 15th Oct 2015

DataCentre infrastructure

Are your customers ready for SQL Server 2005 EOL?

There's a new Microsoft upgrade opportunity for resellers, with the vendor ending support for all editions of SQL Server 2005 in less than six months.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Thu, 15th Oct 2015