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Heather Wright

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ALE bulks up Aussie channel with Integrated Products deal
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

ALE bulks up Aussie channel with Integrated Products deal

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is expanding its Australian distribution channel, adding Integrated Products as a distributor.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 8th Mar 2016

Global Stories

Written by Heather

Fusion5 wins global partner of the year with Aptean
Fusion5

Fusion5 wins global partner of the year with Aptean

Fusion5 is eyeing further global expansion after snapping up enterprise application software vendor Aptean's Partner of the Year award.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Thu, 10th Mar 2016
Signagelive and Samsung up interactivity for retailers
Digital Signage

Signagelive and Samsung up interactivity for retailers

Digital signage is allowing high street brands enable customers to interact with displayed content via assistive EPoS applications.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 9th Mar 2016
Riverbed adds AWS and Azure support to SteelFusion
Virtualisation

Riverbed adds AWS and Azure support to SteelFusion

Riverbed has added support for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to its hyperconverged edge solution, SteelFusion.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 9th Mar 2016
HPE rolls out open storage server
DataCentre infrastructure

HPE rolls out open storage server

HPE has completed its open infrastructure portfolio with the addition of an open, cloud-optimised storage server.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 9th Mar 2016
New Inventec data center switch accepted by Open Compute Project
Hyperscale

New Inventec data center switch accepted by Open Compute Project

ventec has launched a new 100GbE data center switch, with the Ethernet switch design formally accepted by the Open Compute Project.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 9th Mar 2016
Cloud disaster recovery confidence up, but challenges remain
Disaster Recovery

Cloud disaster recovery confidence up, but challenges remain

Confidence in cloud-based disaster recovery is growing, but risks, outages and downtime costs are still posing challenges for enterprises.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 9th Mar 2016
Windows to dominate detachable tablet market
Windows

Windows to dominate detachable tablet market

Demand for detachable tablets is set to bolster Windows tablet play, with Windows devices expected to dominate the detachable market come 2020.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Wed, 9th Mar 2016
Cisco Live honours ANZ partners
Cisco

Cisco Live honours ANZ partners

Dicker Data, Telstra, Dimension Data, Datacom, Optus and UXC Connect were among the winners at Cisco's ANZ Partner Insight Awards, held last night.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 9th Mar 2016
Datacom scoops the awards at CiscoLive Melbourne
Cisco

Datacom scoops the awards at CiscoLive Melbourne

Datacom triumphs at CiscoLive, winning top partner awards in New Zealand and Australia, reinforcing its trans-Tasman tech prowess.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 9th Mar 2016
Dicker Data wins right to full Lenovo enterprise portfolio
Converged Infrastructure

Dicker Data wins right to full Lenovo enterprise portfolio

Dicker Data's distie deal with Lenovo has been extended to include the vendor's full enterprise range in Australia, including Nutanix and DataCore.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 8th Mar 2016
Edge data centers driving 'data center on demand' market
Hyperscale

Edge data centers driving 'data center on demand' market

Edge data centers are driving the data center on demand market as companies seek new ways to lower latency and TCO, while reducing network traffic.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 8th Mar 2016
SimpliVity gains enterprise momentum with Cisco UCS offering
Converged Infrastructure

SimpliVity gains enterprise momentum with Cisco UCS offering

SimpliVity has become a leading hyperconvergence vendor for Cisco USC with 1000 hyperconverged Cisco UCS systems sold.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 8th Mar 2016
Cybercrime focus shifts from servers and OS to applications
DataCentre infrastructure

Cybercrime focus shifts from servers and OS to applications

The biggest threat for security breaches isn't your firewall or SSL certificate, it's your applications - and it's an increasing threat.

By Heather Wright • 4 min read • Tue, 8th Mar 2016
Avnet serves up new cloud offering on back of Microsoft COSN inclusion
Public Cloud

Avnet serves up new cloud offering on back of Microsoft COSN inclusion

Avnet has become the first distributor to join Microsoft's Cloud OS Network program in ANZ, offering up a host of benefits for resellers.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 8th Mar 2016

Stories from Other Regions

Written by Heather

Exeed encouraging resellers to embrace annuity services
Microsoft

Exeed encouraging resellers to embrace annuity services

Exeed is taking to the road to offer resellers practical sales tips on how to harness the full potential of cloud and annuity services.

By Heather Wright • 4 min read • Wed, 9th Mar 2016
Merrill launches Hong Kong data center
Hyperscale

Merrill launches Hong Kong data center

Merrill Corporation has launched a Hong Kong data center to provide local hosting for Asia Pacific customers' sensitive data.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 8th Mar 2016