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Dicker Data has posted a 25% after-tax profit increase on the back of a 10% increase in revenue and is eyeing up new opportunities.

Access4 is hosting BroadSoft's new CC-One in a move it says enables its partners to offer a data driven contact centre and telephony solution in one.

DWS is acquiring SMS Management and Technology to create a 'leading' IT services provider with the size and capability to fully service market.

Westcon-Comstor is looking to Indonesia to pilot new programs, following its launch of Blue Sky cloud services in Indonesia and Singapore last year.

Empired has logged a $1.1 million profit for H1 FY17 with the company bullish about market opportunities in the wake of local M&A activity.

Aruba has a new South Pacific general manager, with Anthony Smith taking over the role as Steve Coad exits the business after five years.

More than 200,000 VR headsets were sold in Aussie in 2016 – but the market is being impacted by the number of offerings and lack of killer content.

Vocus has seen a massive boost in its revenue and profit for the latest H1 thanks to recent acquisitions and organic growth.

An increased focus on growing services is paying off for Data#3, which has recorded solid growth for the latest half year.

Enghouse Interactive is about to launch a new self service IVR platform locally and it's on the hunt for resellers to provide hosted versions.

Rhipe has won Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider and SPLA rights for South Korea in a deal the distie says will help partners grow their cloud business.

Public cloud services spend will grow at seven times faster than overall IT spending out to 2020 according to IDC – with APAC leading the way.

Certus Solutions has taken out IBM's Choice Award for Transformation for its work helping businesses transform using cognitive, cloud and XaaS.

HPE's US$650 million acquisition of hyperconverged infrastructure vendor SimpliVity has closed, with HPE promising the first combined offerings in May.

Hills saw its revenue slip for H1 of FY17, with the company saying it is now 'solely focused on the value added distribution of tech and services.

Visual analytics vendor Zoomdata has appointed a regional master distie as it ramps up its local push to meet burgeoning demand for big data analytics.

CyberArk has ramped up its partner program in an effort to enhance its partners' privileged account security expertise and drive new business.

Cognizant's new Melbourne 'Collaboratory' expected to bring 100 new jobs while bringing IoT to life and applying AI to deliver new experiences.

Ricoh Australia has appointed industry veteran Andy Berry to head up its local operations as it continues to transform in 'this age of the customer'.

JCurve Solutions is targeting the larger business market with the signing of a deal to sell, implement and support MYOB Advanced cloud ERP software.