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Heather Wright

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Australian Stories

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Dick Smith

Dick Smith administrators seek creditors meeting delay

Administrators for Dick Smith Holdings will front the Federal Court of Australia this week to ask for approval to delay the next meeting of creditors.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 27th Jan 2016

Global Stories

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Unified Communications

Exclusive: Nectar sweetens unified comms for local channel

Demand for unified comms monitoring, diagnostics and trouble-shooting is exploding across ANZ, prompting Nectar to up its assault on the local market.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Thu, 28th Jan 2016

Multi-factor authentication

Cloud IAM providing high growth potential

Cloud IAM market set to soar, with a 26.2% CAGR predicted by 2020, led by multi-factor authentication and Asia Pacific growth.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Thu, 28th Jan 2016

DevOps

Microsoft brings cloud to the company data center with Azure Stack

Microsoft's Azure Stack, which promises to enable organisations to deliver Azure services from within their own data center, hits technical preview.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 27th Jan 2016

Empired

Empired faces second round of ASX questions

Empired has faced a fresh round of questioning from the ASX over the timing of its latest trading update following recent trading activity.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Wed, 27th Jan 2016

Hyperscale

Oil oversupply spells good news for data center investment

An oversupply of oil in the global economy is good news for the data center market, with investment expected to increase as energy prices decrease.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 27th Jan 2016

Data Analytics

Real-time stream analytics hops into ANZ as ExtraHop sets up office

Real-time stream analytics vendor ExtraHop is making a play for the local market, and its 'robust' industry sectors, opening an ANZ office.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 27th Jan 2016

Eaton

Eaton snaps up Schneider Electric exec to drive ANZ power business

Eaton has snapped up long-time Schneider Electric manager John Atherton as it seeks to increase its local presence for power quality solutions.

By Heather Wright • 1 min read • Wed, 27th Jan 2016

Virtualisation

Another year, another stellar performance for Veeam ANZ

Veeam ANZ soars with 20% revenue growth, eclipsing global enterprise rates, as its cloud and enterprise sectors in Australia and NZ thrive.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 27th Jan 2016

Private Cloud

Private cloud market ripe for the picking

The hosted private cloud market is a growing opportunity for the technology channel as companies use it as a first step in moving to truly hybrid IT.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 27th Jan 2016

Digital Signage

Multi-screen story telling comes to Primark flagship store

Transparent LED displays and surround sound are creating 'an engaging atmospheric experience' in Primark's new Spanish flagship store.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 26th Jan 2016

Dimension Data

Dimension Data bringing SAP Hybris as SaaS solution

Dimension Data has inked a deal which will see SAP's Hybris digital commerce solution available for the first time in APAC as a SaaS service.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 26th Jan 2016

Distributed Denial of Service

DDos dramatically increasing cause of data center outages

Cybercrime is making its presence felt in data centers as the fastest growing cause of unplanned outages, while outage costs themselves are escalating.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 26th Jan 2016

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

SimpliVity ups programs to help channel capture hyperconvergence demand

SimpliVity is launching new partner programs and initiatives it says will give partners new opportunities in the booming hyperconvergence space.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 26th Jan 2016

Public Cloud

IaaS fastest-growing service in booming public cloud market

Infrastructure-as-a-service is on a rapid trajectory this year with both Gartner and IDC forecasting rapid growth in overall public cloud spend.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Tue, 26th Jan 2016

Firewalls

Next-gen security comes to OpenStack cloud in Mirantis, Palo Alto deal

Mirantis and Palo Alto Networks have partnered on a virtual network function solution they say brings next-generation security to the OpenStack cloud.

By Heather Wright • 1 min read • Mon, 25th Jan 2016

Eaton

Eaton ups cable capacity, reduces data center footprint with new rack

Eaton has launched a new high density network rack system it says provides increased cable capacity to maximise data center efficiency and flexibility.

By Heather Wright • 1 min read • Mon, 25th Jan 2016