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Avnet is serving up new opportunities for resellers after signing as the first in-country distributor for CenturyLink Cloud services.

Asus and Apple are the only vendors to record increased PC shipments for the first quarter of 2016 as the PC market continues to decline.

Cybersecurity should be viewed as an enabler of innovation, with cybersecurity strategies shifting from reactive to agile, Dimension Data says.

CenturyLink boosts its presence down under, unveiling a new cloud node in Sydney, amplifying its IT and cloud services in the APAC region.

The rolling closure of Dick Smith stores continues with closure dates for another 108 stores - including all Kiwi stores - announced today.

Spend on server, storage and Ethernet switches for deployment in cloud environments is expected to increase by 18.9% this year.

Cirrus Networks has inked two VMware enterprises licensing contracts worth more than $1.2 million all up, adding to its blue chip customer line up.

Empired CFO Mark Waller has resigned for personal reasons, with former Amcom CFO David Hinton taking over the role.

SDN revenue is on a growth trajectory, as companies move from trialling to full adoption. But challenges remain.

IBM, HPE and Cisco are among the early leaders in the growth commercial IoT market, with sizeable opportunity for net-new revenue.

StorageCraft's latest version of ImageManager backup management software includes the previously premium-based IntelligentFTP and HeadStart Restore.

Arbor Networks' has garnered the highest overall security effectiveness score for its AP 2800, in NSS Labs' first DDoS Prevention Test.

The ACCC is looking at proposals from NBN and Telstra to address concerns around the competition implications of Telstra's involvement in the rollout.

A Hong Kong polytechnic university has broken world records for fastest optical communications for data centers, logging 24-times the existing speeds.

Greentree International has launched Greentree-as-a-Service, enabling organisations to run their entire Greentree system in the cloud.

Australia's fintech industry is set to pull money away from the big four banks, according to a report which highlights just how lucrative fintech is.

Intractive Intelligence's new channel boss, Shayne Taylor, will be pushing the partner opportunities of PureCloud Engage.

NEC New Zealand showcased its smart city suite of offerings to central and local government leaders in Wellington last week.

Dell, Cisco and EMC are closing the gap marginally on Hewlett Packard Enterprise's number one spot for cloud infrastructure sales.

Backspace has launched an OpenStack everywhere initiative, offering enterprises fully managed private clouds in any data center.