Australian Stories

Enterprise market presents huge growth opportunity for cloud providers

Nearly all enterprises plan to increase or maintain their annual spending on cloud computing in 2016, according to a study.

By Catherine Knowles • 2 min read • Mon, 15th Feb 2016

Global Stories

Public Cloud

Australian data center-hosted options for new Microsoft Dynamics AX

Microsoft customers will be able to access the new Dynamics AX from in-region data centers, with Microsoft hosting the offering in Australia.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Fri, 11th Mar 2016

Public Cloud

Resellers urged to upgrade customers before 22% Microsoft cloud fee increase

Resellers are being urged to get their customers onto Microsoft cloud services this month - before a 22% price increase takes effect on April 01.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Fri, 11th Mar 2016

Public Cloud

22% price hike looms for Microsoft NZ enterprise cloud

Microsoft is upping the prices for its enterprise cloud services by 22% on April 01, but those buying or renewing this month can get price protection.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Fri, 11th Mar 2016

Microsoft

Microsoft takes Dynamics AX to the cloud

Microsoft has released a new version of Dynamics AX, allowing businesses to run their entire operations in the cloud.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Fri, 11th Mar 2016

Virtualisation

Riverbed adds AWS and Azure support to SteelFusion

Riverbed has added support for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to its hyperconverged edge solution, SteelFusion.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 9th Mar 2016

Disaster Recovery

Cloud disaster recovery confidence up, but challenges remain

Confidence in cloud-based disaster recovery is growing, but risks, outages and downtime costs are still posing challenges for enterprises.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 9th Mar 2016

Public Cloud

Avnet serves up new cloud offering on back of Microsoft COSN inclusion

Avnet has become the first distributor to join Microsoft's Cloud OS Network program in ANZ, offering up a host of benefits for resellers.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 8th Mar 2016

Public Cloud

Softsource launches Microsoft Azure certified for hybrid cloud data centre

Kiwi company Softsource has launched its next-gen IaaS offering, heralding Australasia's first Microsoft Azure certified for hybrid cloud data centre.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Tue, 8th Mar 2016

DevOps

NTT Coms overhauls Enterprise Cloud for hybrid world

NTT Communications has revamped its Enterprise Cloud offering, adding OpenStack and Cloud Foundry to 'accelerate digital transformation'.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Mon, 7th Mar 2016

Software-as-a-Service

Top five cloud backup and recovery software vendors revealed

IaaS and on-demand cloud providers will significantly boost the global cloud and backup and recovery software market.

By Catherine Knowles • 5 min read • Wed, 2nd Mar 2016

Microsoft

The Digital Workplace Conference: Helping your business go digital

Over 500 attendees expected at Australia's premier Digital Workplace Conference, offering key insights into digital business transformation.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Thu, 25th Feb 2016

Microsoft

Lightning Lab backs Kiwi start-ups thinking big

The Lightning Lab has announced the digital startups that will take part in the Lightning Lab 2016 Auckland Programme and the Wellington XX Programme.

By Catherine Knowles • 6 min read • Thu, 25th Feb 2016

Virtualisation

IBM and VMware team up for hybrid cloud

IBM and VMware are teaming up to help drive enterprises into the cloud by enabling VMware customers to migrate data to IBM Cloud without modification.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 24th Feb 2016

Customer Experience

Global Cloud Xchange touches down in Sydney with cloud delivery network

Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) launches content and cloud delivery network in Sydney, expanding its Global Network across Australia and New Zealand.

By Catherine Knowles • 2 min read • Tue, 16th Feb 2016

Microsoft

Cloud First Licensing – boosting Microsoft's race to the cloud

Microsoft's 'Cloud First Licensing' strategy accelerates, reshaping the tech giant's cloud race with key licensing updates.

By Stephen White • 4 min read • Fri, 5th Feb 2016

DevOps

Microsoft brings cloud to the company data center with Azure Stack

Microsoft's Azure Stack, which promises to enable organisations to deliver Azure services from within their own data center, hits technical preview.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 27th Jan 2016

Stories from Other Regions

Microsoft

Office 365 migration: avoiding the pitfalls

As Kiwi firms rapidly adopt Office 365, ICONZ's GM Jack Talbot cautions about potential migration pitfalls and stresses a bespoke approach for each business.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Thu, 10th Mar 2016