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Heather Wright

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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise adds ACA to local distie lineup

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise adds ACA Pacific Technology to its local distie line-up, in a deal the distie says will help partners broaden their reach.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Thu, 12th Jan 2017

Global Stories

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Microsoft

Ingram Micro goes exclusive with Trend Micro as vendor joins cloud marketplace

Ingram Micro has upgraded its distie deal with Trend Micro, signing an exclusive agreement with the vendor and adding it to the Cloud Marketplace.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Fri, 20th Jan 2017

ServiceNow buys DxContinuum; adds machine learning to intelligent automation

ServiceNow is acquiring machine-learning startup DxContinuum, utilising its technology to more bolster its intelligent automaton with machine learning.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Thu, 19th Jan 2017

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Megaport adds new routes linking Asia with North America

Megaport has launched a new route connecting Hong Kong to Los Angeles, with a secondary path from Singapore to Hong Kong also launched.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Thu, 19th Jan 2017

Converged Infrastructure

Updated: HPE snaps up SimpliVity in US$650 million cash deal

HPE is buying software-defined hyperconverged infrastructure provider SimpliVity for US$650 million. So what's in it for customers and partners?.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Wed, 18th Jan 2017

Network Infrastructure

Singapore, Hong Kong first in Colt's major Asia network investment

Colt's investment surge powers Asian digital boom, as Singapore and Hong Kong lead network expansion for high-bandwidth delivery.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 18th Jan 2017

CyberPower

Exeed powers up new opportunities with CyberPower deal

Exeed has secured a distribution deal with CyberPower Systems, bringing a top-tier range of power management products to New Zealand's resellers.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 18th Jan 2017

Virtualisation

Enterprise and cloud push pays off for Veeam as company posts record results

Veeam is continuing to strengthen its ANZ foothold, recording 22% year on year growth in total revenues across ANZ and increasing enterprise momentum.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 18th Jan 2017

Unified Communications

Catchi goes silver on Oracle partner network

Catchi goes silver with Oracle as it seeks to drive digital transformation using Oracle's Marketing Cloud automation offerings.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 17th Jan 2017

Wireless Networks

Purple ramps up local reseller base; relaunches partner program

Intelligent spaces vendor Purple is ramping up its local reseller base promising to provide a strong differentiator - and an easy ROI for customers.

By Heather Wright • 4 min read • Tue, 17th Jan 2017

Initial Public Offering

Kogan beats FY17 forecast in first half following strong Christmas trading

Kogan.com, which last year acquired and resurrected Dick Smith's online business, has beaten its full year forecast in the first six months of FY17.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 17th Jan 2017

Data Analytics

Apeiron Data Systems extends reach with WWT deal

Apeiron Data Systems has inked a deal with World Wide Technology to sell its newly launched, native NVMe over Ethernet storage offering globally.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 17th Jan 2017

DataCentre infrastructure

HPE and Schneider Electric serve up new micro data center

Growing quantities of data are 'transforming' the data center, with HPE and Schneider Electric teaming up to deliver a new edge micro data center.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Mon, 16th Jan 2017

Hyperscale

Equinix, Digital Realty, NTT streak ahead in colocation market

Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT extended their colocation leadership last year, growing three times as much as the overall market.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Mon, 16th Jan 2017

IT Budget

Mixed fortunes for local IT spend in 2017, says Gartner

Local IT spend will continue to climb this year but while spend in some categories is increasing, others are falling. Gartner tells who wins and loses.

By Heather Wright • 4 min read • Mon, 16th Jan 2017