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Exclusive Q&A: Why businesses are storing useless hardware

Wed, 30th Jan 2019
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In this exclusive interview, Blancco's Fredrik Forslund details just how expensive the issue of data centre waste has become.
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Multicloud possible liberator for APAC's monopolising cloud market

Wed, 30th Jan 2019
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partner programmes
By 2022 IDC expects the top four clouds in APAC will be the destination of choice for a whopping 70 percent of workloads.
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Study finds many NZ business websites to be slow and self-obsessed

Wed, 30th Jan 2019
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cloud services
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marketing
A new study has found at least 80 percent of New Zealand business websites are slow, generic, and verging on being narcissistic.
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70% of organisations to adopt AI by 2021 – still 'human' work though

Wed, 30th Jan 2019
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Gartner says while there are obvious concerns for today's workforce, the massive rise of AI will be about augmentation, not total automation.
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Organisations wasting $100k a year hoarding useless IT hardware

Mon, 28th Jan 2019
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A new report reveals that two in five organisations spend over USD $100,000 annually storing useless IT hardware, posing security and compliance risks.
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New Bosch tech can turn your home into a touchscreen

Tue, 22nd Jan 2019
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This incredible projector the size of a credit card can beam interactive virtual touchscreens onto any surface in your home to make them 'smart'.
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Top risk facing organisations? Why, it's an IT talent famine

Mon, 21st Jan 2019
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data privacy
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education, learning & training
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skills shortage
The IT industry is experiencing a severe talent shortage, now the top risk for organisations, up from third place, per Gartner's latest report.
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Palo Alto says supply chain is cybersecurity's weakest link

Fri, 18th Jan 2019
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network infrastructure
Palo Alto Networks warns that supply chains are the weakest link in cybersecurity, urging firms to evaluate partners' defences to prevent breaches.
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Rubrik welcomes $261m funding for new market expansion

Wed, 16th Jan 2019
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data management
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data center management
The company intends to use the funds from new investor Bain Capital Ventures will go toward future innovation and expansion.
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IoT breaches: Nearly half of businesses still can't detect them

Wed, 16th Jan 2019
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The Internet of Thing's (IoT's) rapid rise to prominence may have compromised its security, if a new report from Gemalto is anything to go by.
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Survey finds retailers 'bullish' on hybrid cloud adoption

Wed, 16th Jan 2019
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The retail industry takes no prisoners and that's made clear in its 'on the pulse' adoption of new technologies.
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New research shows data centre acquisition upsurge

Tue, 15th Jan 2019
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Data centre acquisitions surged in 2018 with 68 deals worth USD $16 billion, despite falling below 2017's peak, Synergy Research reports.
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NZ companies ill-prepared for new digital marketing era

Tue, 15th Jan 2019
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google
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amazon
Kim Voon claims New Zealand companies need to get off their bums and get on with adopting new marketing tech or face being left behind by their global peers.
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IoT's rapid rise fuelling an explosion of data

Tue, 15th Jan 2019
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edge computing
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iot
IDC expects global annual spending on IoT to exceed US$1 trillion by 2022, driving huge demand for data centres.
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A photo still enough to defeat face unlock of many phones

Sat, 12th Jan 2019
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biometrics
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cybersecurity
A new study by Consumentenbond reveals that 42 out of 110 smartphones tested can be unlocked using just a photo, challenging manufacturers' security claims.
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Cloud IT infrastructure revenues overtake traditional IT for first time

Sat, 12th Jan 2019
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The rush to 'digitally transform' and adopt cloud-based technologies has caused some major changes in the market.
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Huawei launches 'industry-first' AI data centre switch amid trade war

Thu, 10th Jan 2019
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Despite being embroiled in the midst of a trade war between China and the United States, Huawei is showing no signs of slowing down its innovation.
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Signs of erosion in Cisco's IT infrastructure dominance

Thu, 10th Jan 2019
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network infrastructure
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datacentre infrastructure
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hyperscale
While still maintaining a significant lead, Cisco finished 2018 with a slightly smaller piece of the pie in the enterprise IT infrastructure market.
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Bulk of US$250b cloud market claimed by just nine companies

Wed, 9th Jan 2019
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virtualisation
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network infrastructure
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paas
The top nine vendors in the wide cloud market ecosystem are responsible for well over half of all the revenues.
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Positive results for semiconductor market, but decline looms

Wed, 9th Jan 2019
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storage
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semiconductors
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industry experts
The market's revenue growth reached double-digit figures in 2018, but Gartner has identified a number of imminent roadblocks.