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Infrastructure stories

Critical infrastructure protection market to skyrocket in coming years

With crime comes the need for protection and it's certainly no different for critical infrastructure within data centers, a new report finds.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Tue, 10th Jul 2018

Smart Cities

City of Lake Macquarie prepares for 'groundbreaking' smart city network

The Australian City of Lake Macquarie is set to roll out a smart city network in what is being hailed as a groundbreaking IoT initiative.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Tue, 10th Jul 2018

Network Infrastructure

IDC - Local networking infrastructure market growing at warp speed

Revenue coming from the enterprise space grew by 15% YoY, while service providers revenue growth was stagnant.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Fri, 6th Jul 2018

Hyperscale

Sunbird delivers DCIM software enhancements for hybrid data center environments

Sunbird Software's dcTrack 6.1 release offers enhanced cloud integration and visualisation tools for streamlined hybrid data centre management.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Fri, 6th Jul 2018

DataCentre infrastructure

Schneider Electric appoints new VP for UK IT division

A Schneider Electric veteran has been appointed the role to steer the company's interests in an industry increasingly dependent on the data centre.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Tue, 3rd Jul 2018

Data Analytics

The Instillery harnesses data for Auckland Council with AWS

The solution will help drive growth decisions, optimise city planning and enable stakeholders to measure the impact of investment on social outcomes.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Tue, 3rd Jul 2018

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Megaport opens up Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in London

Megaport recently announced the availability of dedicated and private access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (FastConnect) in London.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Fri, 29th Jun 2018

DevOps

Rackspace takes next step in AWS migration certification

As an AWS Migrations Acceleration Program Partner, it can help customers reduce the risk of migrating to AWS cloud.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Thu, 28th Jun 2018

Software-as-a-Service

Public cloud services market thriving, but dominated by the big guys

The top 16 market leaders in the market account for over half of the market, with IDC expecting this stranglehold to continue its growth.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Mon, 25th Jun 2018

Unified Communications

AT&T offloads 31 data centers to trim $1.1b off colossal debt

The giant telco reportedly has $189 billion of debt, and the data center sale (18 in the US and 13 international) is a move to reduce that.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Mon, 25th Jun 2018

Storage

Three effective strategies for protecting your backups from ransomware

Three key things you should be doing with your data protection strategy to make sure your backups are there when you need them most.

By Andy Syrewicze • 3 min read • Mon, 25th Jun 2018

EduTech

IDC - 2018 will see IT and telecom spending slowdown worldwide

An IDC report shows that the market is on course for a growth of 3.7% this year, slightly down from last year's 4.2%.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Mon, 25th Jun 2018

Unified Communications

Cove trials insurance purchases via Facebook Messenger chatbot

Cove Insurance has claimed it's first to sell insurance via a chatbot currently in private beta mode, and the tech looks promising.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Mon, 25th Jun 2018

Hyperscale

Huge money being made in U.S. data center real estate

A real estate investment trust has revealed the value of two recent data center sales, with the total sum exceeding $85 million.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Thu, 21st Jun 2018

Stories from Other Regions

Infrastructure stories

Sustainability

Contractors warn of construction gap in government transport policy

Civil firms fear a USD $2 billion lull in work could push skills and equipment overseas before rapid transit projects begin.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Sun, 1st Jul 2018

Public Cloud

IBM Cloud's IaaS extended to all NZ Government agencies

IBM has opened up its public cloud to all New Zealand Government agencies in an effort to support the Government's cloud-first policy.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Fri, 29th Jun 2018

Construction

World’s longest sea bridge soon to open

After nearly eight years of delays and cost overruns, the 55-kilometre crossing will cut travel times by 60 per cent for millions.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Tue, 26th Jun 2018

Manufacturing

Hydrogen-powered clean, green and efficient forklifts debut

Customers could cut forklift downtime to minutes as hydrogen fuel-cell models promise cleaner operations and quicker refuelling at Australian sites.

By Staff Writer • 5 min read • Sun, 24th Jun 2018

Partner Programmes

2018 Microsoft NZ Partner Awards: The full list of winners

The Awards took place in Auckland last night with more than 400 in attendance and judges admitting it was a genuine challenge to pick the winners.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 22nd Jun 2018