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KOTRA reports opportunities for South Korean IT companies in Canada

Fri, 4th Aug 2017
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Following complications in the U.S., Canada has been touted as the 'Second Silicon Valley' presenting a huge opportunity for Asian IT companies.
Vintage telephones

Slight decline in smartphone market for Q2 2017 to be short-lived

Fri, 4th Aug 2017
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​New research from IDC has revealed the smartphone market declined slightly in the second quarter of 2017 – but this is expected to soon change.
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Equinix appoints company veteran to oversee next phase of growth

Thu, 3rd Aug 2017
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Meyers will lead the strategic business teams driving the company's next phase of growth as it focuses on the future needs of customers and partners.
Business tug of war

Traditional data centre vs micro data centre deployments - who wins?

Thu, 3rd Aug 2017
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The weigh-up of the cost effectiveness of a single traditional data centre of one MW capacity against a cluster of micro data centres each of 5kW.
Businessman jumping future

Wearables market in state of flux – Ovum details what the future holds

Thu, 3rd Aug 2017
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For many vendors in the wearables industry, layoffs and senior management departures have been a common theme of late - but there are opportunities.
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Brennan IT plans aggressive growth amid 20th birthday celebrations

Thu, 3rd Aug 2017
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From a start-up in a loft to the number one managed services provider (MSP) in Australia, Brennan IT has come a long way in 20 years.
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Photo gallery: Oracle ANZ Partner Awards celebrate the year that's been

Thu, 3rd Aug 2017
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Around 100 partners congregated at the recent Oracle ANZ Partner Awards to toast those who have excelled in the past year.
Doorway to the clouds

The 'Olympics of the ICT industry' fast approaching

Thu, 3rd Aug 2017
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The event is set to attract more than 90 tech elites and 2,500 global business leaders from more than 80 countries to participate in the discussions.
Collaboartion solution

Rackspace secures strategic channel partnership with AWS

Wed, 2nd Aug 2017
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​Rackspace have sealed a channel relationship with Amazon Web Services in a move it says will streamline the process for customers moving to AWS.
Businessman going both ways

Fujitsu's Q1 2017 financial results a mixed bag of good and bad

Wed, 2nd Aug 2017
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While the company has experienced great success in Japan, elsewhere its revenue and profits appear to be declining.
Vintage robot smiling

Rising trend of automation to simplify deployment of hybrid cloud

Wed, 2nd Aug 2017
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SwftStack says with automation hybrid cloud and even multi-cloud environments will be simple to create and manage, bringing in a new age of ICT.
Treasure trove

HBO's Game of Thrones treasure chest ransacked by hackers

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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​It would seem winter has come for HBO after hackers have stormed the company's servers and looted the jewels within to leak data online.
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IDC: Writing on the wall for Aussie enterprise Ethernet market?

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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With a 21 percent year-on-year decline, IDC reports the first quarter of 2017 was in fact the worst downturn in some time.
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Amazon launches new service in Singapore to transform retail

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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Amazon's first retail service in Singapore is set to transform the retail industry with products ordered from phones and delivered within two hours.
Business taking off

Renesas Electronics undergoes significant growth in Q2 this year

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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The company has plenty to be satisfied about, with its President and CEO reporting it as a successful expansion.
Businessman riding arrow

Results are out – MSPs more profitable with Continuum

Mon, 31st Jul 2017
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The results of an independent analysis of MSPs and IT solution providers worldwide have revealed some very favourable results for Continuum.
Cloud money

Cloud infrastructure services skyrocket 47% - AI to be big future player

Fri, 28th Jul 2017
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​The global cloud infrastructure services market continued its rampant growth in Q2 2017, surging 47 percent year-on-year to reach US$14 billion.
Email scam

Nearly a quarter of 'unsafe' emails getting through to user inboxes

Fri, 28th Jul 2017
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cybersecurity
There is a continuous challenge of securing organisations from malicious attachments, dangerous files type, impersonation attacks as well as spam.
Businessman progress

IaaS set to surpass SaaS spending in 2017 and be a major driver of growth

Fri, 28th Jul 2017
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IDC has predicted the public cloud services market to exceed the US$10b mark this year with IaaS spending surpassing SaaS for the first time.
Change wall arrows

Infosys co-founder stresses the need for change in IT companies

Fri, 28th Jul 2017
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The challenge, Gopalakrishnan says, is the fear of the unknown that accompanies change and that companies are currently experiencing today.