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Service and support

Ingram Micro ups local Trend Micro service and support options

Mon, 13th Feb 2017
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Ingram Micro Australia has ramped up its Trend Micro service and support options as it seeks to help partners capitalise on the high growth market.
Securities

Software growing fast as 'mature' APAC banking and securities spend hits $67b

Mon, 13th Feb 2017
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The industry analysts say while Japan is the largest market in the region, it is New Zealand that will have the highest growth rate in 2017.
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Aquion signs on as first local Unisys Stealth value added reseller

Mon, 13th Feb 2017
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Aquion becomes ANZ's inaugural reseller of Unisys Stealth, offering top-notch cyber protection for enterprises and governments.
Seven eggs

Microsoft offers up seven key partner opportunities for 2017

Mon, 13th Feb 2017
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DX, specialisation and the internet of partners are among the greatest partner opportunities this year according to Microsoft.
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ME Bank harnesses VMtech security-as-a-service for digital disruption

Thu, 9th Feb 2017
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VMtech has won a deal to provide security-as-a-service for ME Bank as it seeks to be a digital disruptor in its sector.
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Two Telstra hires as Brennan IT looks to new channel to market

Tue, 7th Feb 2017
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Brennan IT is eyeing up new paths to market with the appointment of former Telstra executive, Andrew Borthwick as head of partners and channels.
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Synnex bulks up connectivity and management offerings with Aten deal

Tue, 7th Feb 2017
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Synnex Australia fortifies its offerings, integrating Aten's innovative connectivity solutions and Green Energy PDUs into its portfolio.
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Exclusive: AWS spot instance optimisation tool coming to Westcon-Comstor

Tue, 7th Feb 2017
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Westcon-Comstor will launch an AWS spot instance optimisation tool later this month to enable resellers to take advantage of spot optimisation prices.
Cloud123

Microsoft, Google, IBM surge but AWS still dominates public cloud services

Mon, 6th Feb 2017
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Microsoft, Google and IBM are slowly gaining on AWS in the public cloud services market, as the IaaS and PaaS infrastructure service market top US$7b.
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Internet of things, data centre aid Intel in 'transformative' year

Mon, 6th Feb 2017
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Strength in its IoT, data centre and security offerings helped drive Intel revenues for 2016 up, but weren't enough to prevent declining net income.
Trophy glory

Successes flow as Innovix Hong Kong takes out five HPE and Nutanix awards

Mon, 6th Feb 2017
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Innovix Distribution's Hong Kong operations have won triple glory from HPE along with two Nutanix distribution awards.
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Innovix Singapore signs Nuance; wins with Dell EMC

Mon, 6th Feb 2017
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Innovix Distribution Singapore has signed a deal to distribute Nuance locally, while also winning Dell EMC's Distie of the Year award.
Cloud signature

Rhipe signs up eSignature vendor DocuSign for DX and cloud gains

Mon, 6th Feb 2017
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Rhipe has signed up digital transaction management and eSignature vendor DocuSign in a deal it says enables partners to help customers get paid faster.
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DX to attain 'macroeconomic scale' in Australia in next three to four years

Mon, 6th Feb 2017
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Digital transformation will attain macroeconomic scale over the next three to four years and the channel will play a big part on the cloud front.
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HDS focuses on government with new appointment

Mon, 6th Feb 2017
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HDS is putting the focus on the government sector with a new appointment – snapping up a second former HPE staffer in a week in the process.
Storage

Dicker Data targets growing NAS and storage device market with Seagate deal

Mon, 6th Feb 2017
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Dicker Data is targeting the fast growing NAS and storage device market, with a new Australian distribution deal with Seagate Technology.
Security

Dicker Data expands security play with Trend Micro deal

Thu, 2nd Feb 2017
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Dicker Data has upped its security play, signing a distie deal with Trend Micro as the vendor seeks increased mid-market and enterprise penetration.
Handshake cloud

Avnet ups vSphere ante with CloudPhysics signing

Wed, 1st Feb 2017
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Avnet has signed a deal with CloudPhysics providing resellers with a new tool to help customers gain operational insights to their vSphere environment.
Data center

Synnex ups data centre play with Vertiv deal

Wed, 1st Feb 2017
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Synnex Australia bolsters its data centre offerings, forging a strategic Vertiv alliance to fortify power protection solutions.
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Datto acquires Open Mesh for new managed networking offerings

Wed, 1st Feb 2017
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Datto has acquired cloud-based networking provider Open Mesh in a deal designed to provide channel partners with new managed networking services.