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How Microsoft’s Azure is commoditising the leading edge
It’s almost hard to believe that Microsoft’ Australian Azure data centres have only been in place for around a year… read more...
Big bank signs $450m deal with Big Blue
ANZ – which spends $1.2 billion a year on technology – has signed a five year $450 million deal with IBM which will provide computing platforms to support the bank across the Asia Pacific region… read more...
Five megatrends on the minds of ANZ execs
ANZ CIOs and CxOs name economic change, technology innovation and changing consumer expectations as the biggest pending megatrends… read more...
Handley to step down from Snakk
Mobile advertising company appoints Peter James as executive director and chair… read more...
Modernisation and digital transformation behind enterprise application software growth
Worldwide spending on enterprise application software will grow 7.5 percent to reach US$149.9 billion in 2015… read more...
MYOB and Xero appeal equally to shareholders
The fortunes of accounting software rivals MYOB and Xero are at a curious inflexion point with shareholders valuing them equally at $1.7billion… read more...
All-flash data centres around the corner, says HP
Faster enterprise storage means better business results read more...
Government eyes up convergence, content regulation
Laws haven’t kept pace with technological change, says minister… read more...
NZ slow to cloud? Not so fast, says IDC
Market watcher says SMBs ARE taking advantage of the cloud… read more...
Smartphone sales start slowing
The IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker revises expectations of smartphone shipments… read more...
NetApp preaches to the yet-to-be converted
Storage and data management business NetApp wants to do for big business data what Apple did for consumers’ – it’s turning out to be a big ask… read more...
Computer security morphs into crisis management
There’s been a change of language in the lingo surrounding computer security – it’s now all about resilience and response rather than assuring protection… read more...
Shadow IT to boost female interest in tech
One only need attend an IT conference to know that technology is a man’s world… read more...
NZ small business ‘missing out’ on cloud
While a noteworthy proportion of small and medium businesses in New Zealand aren’t yet using the cloud, we’re ahead of those across the ditch… read more...
Artificial intelligence: Solving the little big problems
Call centres are practically a defining feature of the modern world. They are also routinely a source of frustration, but AI could change that… read more...
Industry convergence will drive societal change
Convergence and connectivity is disrupting, transforming and collapsing industries, redefining the future of business and how executives will manage companies in the future, says Frost & Sullivan… read more...
Australia’s CSG acquires CodeBlue
CSG has signed an agreement to acquire CodeBlue for a total sum of $15 million… read more...
Internet in schools: 2000 now connected
With the connection of the 2000th school to its Managed Network, Network for Learning (N4L) said fast internet is in 80 percent of the country’s schools… read more...
Serko partners with Expedia, seeks to transform corporate travel
Kiwi business travel booking and expense management software vendor Serko has partnered with Expedia… read more...
IBM to host New Zealand’s first SmartCamp
IBM is calling for entrepreneurs to participate in its first New Zealand SmartCamp, to be held in Auckland next month… read more...
