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StorageCraft and Arcserve merge

Global backup and disaster recovery vendors Arcserve and StorageCraft are set to merge, creating a mega-vendor in the data management and protection market.

Why Microsoft Azure wins with enterprise customers

Microsoft often comes off as second best to AWS. But when it comes to established enterprises, Azure wins more often than not. Here’s why.

Government IT spend in Australia to break $13B this year

The government sector is on track to be a good hunting ground this year for partners looking to boost business, ​with public sector spend in ...

Ingram Micro teams up with Veeam, IBM and Microsoft to back ISVs

​Ingram Micro has launched a new program aimed at addressing the challenges in supporting, simplifying and accelerating start-up and established independent software vendors.

• Flight Centre calls on NTT for Microsoft consolidation support
• IpScape shifts contact centre platform to Azure
• Spirit goes back to black as H1 revenue soars 253% to $44M
• WorkForce Software ramps up A/NZ channel play
• Data centre training, recruitment need to change to meet staffing demand
• Google introduces API for faster Kotlin builds
• IBM homes in on Build partners in hybrid cloud push
• Andrew Assad exits A/NZ leadership role at Arrow
• Data#3 sees cloud surge in yet another record result
• Cisco, AWS integrate IoT, edge network software and services
• Boosting science and engineering in the cloud
• Databricks hits Google Cloud with new integrations

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When new intelligence meets new learning

It is a familiar story – new technology creates opportunities for improvement in how operations are done, but it also adds new complexities and pressures that impact IT’s ability to maintain existing operations, recognise and control future developments (and potential downsides), and monitor outcomes for optimum benefit.. Read more

Features

• Microsoft's wins, fails, and WTF moments of 2020

  We all lived on Microsoft Teams this year, then ditched work to play an Xbox game we downloaded via Game Pass.

• Gartner: 10 predictions for the next decade of IT

  Gartner unveils top predictions for IT organisations and users in 2021 and beyond

• Cisco, Google reenergize multi-cloud/hybrid cloud nuptials

  Cisco, VMware, HPE and others tap into new Google Cloud Athos cloud technology

• Kubernetes vendors target container security, operations and management

  Kubernetes gets all manner of networking, management love from VMware, Arista, and more at KubeCon+ CloudNativeCon 2018

• Gartner: IT spending to hit US$3.8 trillion; enterprise software, IT services outlays lead way

  Gartner says IT services will be a key driver for IT spending in 2019 as the market is forecast to hit US$1 trillion in 2019

• The cloud in 2019: Multicloud, serverless computing, and Kubernetes containers

  Enterprises are quickly moving up the cloud stack, away from infrastructure services

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Round Table

• IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Big Data, Big Opportunities (+21 images)

  The latest ARN Roundtable was held at Sydney's Cafe Del Mar, and was sponsored by Cloudera and Veritas. The guestlist saw a VIP group of ...

• Roundtable: Security Guide for the Cloud - right here, right now

  The cloud 'security strategy' involves adopting security solutions that seamlessly span physical, virtual and private/hybrid/public cloud environments while simplifying operational and management complexities. Roundtable attendees ...

• IN PICTURES: Securing the journey to the Cloud roundtable

  Industry executives across the channel gathered at Otto Ristorante in Sydney to discuss the journey towards the cloud. ARN in conjunction with itX, Trend Micro ...

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Opinions

• 10 hot hybrid-cloud startups to watch

  With few enterprises using purely private or purely public cloud infrastructure, a range of startups has emerged to meet unique hybrid-cloud needs for management, storage ...

• Align cloud infrastructure to your business strategy — or fail

  nything other than a cloud-only strategy for new IT initiatives will require justification at more than 30 percent of large enterprises by 2020, according to ...

• Don’t be the fool in the cloud

  Is it really that hard to keep from making a security idiot of yourself?

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Reviews

• Users review the top cloud data integration tools

  IT Central Station members weigh in on Informatica Cloud Data Integration, Dell Boomi AtomSphere, IBM App Connect, and SnapLogic

• Windows 10 Anniversary Update: The good, the bad and the 'meh' (with video)

  The new version of Windows 10 is a solid, if not dramatic, upgrade. Cortana haters, though, won't be happy.

• Windows 10 Anniversary Update review: Cortana, Edge overshadow Windows Ink

  The improvements Microsoft has made on features you use every day are what really matter.

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