Global Stories

Virtualisation: Meeting the demands of a maturing market

With virtualisation maturing, large enterprises embrace it as essential. Gartner forecasts it as key tech in 2011; 91% already use it for production workloads.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Tue, 1st Nov 2011

Health Technologies

Making it virtual

With server virtualisation reaching maximum penetration in mature markets like New Zealand, now is the time for resellers to look to other virtualisat.

By Staff Writer • 5 min read • Tue, 1st Nov 2011

Storage

HDS Makes Play for clouds

Hitachi Data Systems is diving into cloud solutions, aiming to open new markets and find fresh partnerships in Australia and New Zealand.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 1st Jul 2011

Gaming

Desert Zombie brings FPS to iOS

Desert Zombie: Last Stand brings thrilling FPS action to iOS, powered by Unreal Engine for console-quality gameplay.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 10th Jun 2011

Microsoft

Sir Richard Branson to speak at MS partner meet

Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder, to address attendees at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in July in Los Angeles.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Fri, 10th Jun 2011

Virtualisation

SolarWinds masters virtualisation

SolarWinds launches Virtualization Manager and Storage Manager to give more control over virtualised environments.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Thu, 9th Jun 2011

MMO

SolarWinds Turns To Storage

Network management solutions company SolarWinds is turning its attention to storage, with its first application in the field launched this month.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Wed, 1st Jun 2011

Storage

Hardware Independent Restore for Virtual environments launched

StorageCraft unveils a revolutionary disaster recovery product for virtual environments, promising rapid restores and broad hypervisor support.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Wed, 18th May 2011

Gaming

Marvel VS Capcom 3 9 top tips

There's a lot to take in if you're to play competitively at marvel vs. Capcom 3. Nzism's fluxcore returns once again with nine tips to bring you up to speed.

By Staff Writer • 5 min read • Tue, 1st Mar 2011

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Jump on the bandwagon

Businesses can't ignore the leap to cloud computing for smarter, cost-effective IT solutions—but navigating choices demands savvy.

By Staff Writer • 5 min read • Tue, 1st Mar 2011

Virtualisation

Citrix acquires NZ software firm EMS-Cortex

Citrix boosts cloud offerings with the acquisition of New Zealand's EMS-Cortex, simplifying hosted services provision with Cortex technology.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Wed, 23rd Feb 2011

Gaming

Sony: 20 exclusive PS3 games in 2011

Sony promises a blockbuster 2011 with 20 PS3 exclusives, from 'Uncharted 3' to 'The Last Guardian', reshaping the gaming landscape.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Tue, 11th Jan 2011

Simms International

Kingston launches super fast USB 3.0 drive

Kingston's HyperX MAX 3.0, a USB 3.0 drive with speeds up to 195MB/sec, launches in December, redefining fast file transfers.

By Staff Writer • 1 min read • Wed, 24th Nov 2010

Virtualisation

Virtual utopia

New Zealand businesses are flocking to data centre virtualisation, but security solutions lag. With 50% of workloads on VMs by 2012, risks loom large.

By Staff Writer • 5 min read • Fri, 1st Oct 2010

Gaming