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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 ...

Over the Wire’s post-tax profit continues to slide

Telco services provider Over the Wire has posted another decline net after-tax profit, which fell by 23 per cent, to $1.8 million, during the six ...

• Vocus on the mend after consecutive profit hits
• Hills’ distribution business struggles as COVID-19 bites
• Ingram Micro teams up with Veeam, IBM and Microsoft to back ISVs
• Flight Centre calls on NTT for Microsoft consolidation support
• IpScape shifts contact centre platform to Azure
• Aruba and Vault Cloud forge cloud security alliance
• Spirit goes back to black as H1 revenue soars 253% to $44M
• Lenovo Data Center Group A/NZ channel leader Frank Eagleton departs
• Welcome to the client-serverless revolution
• WorkForce Software ramps up A/NZ channel play
• ‘Disciplined’ half year sees Empired profit soar 284%
• CrowdStrike reinforces XDR play with US$400M Humio buy

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Why Digital Transformation Requires Load Balancing

Load balancing, though by no means a “new” technology, has found renewed focus and relevance among IT leaders, as it has become a crucial component in achieving business resiliency at a time where work environments are so completely distributed. As businesses start to rebound from the disruption of 2020, load balancing will continue to be a critical cog and priority for CIOs, as the technology will underpin the successful digital transformation initiatives.. Read more

Features

• Disaster recovery lessons from an island struck by a hurricane

  Prepping for disaster recovery needs a plan, testing, and thinking about non-technical necessities like food and shelter for the recovery team.

• 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

• How IT priorities are shifting during the COVID-19 crisis

  Survey from AppDynamics indicates the acceleration of digital transformation during the pandemic creates new IT risks

• Microsoft declares April's Windows 10 upgrade ready for business

  Creators Update is now suitable for broad deployment in enterprise.

• FAQ: How Microsoft plans to upgrade Office 365

  Changes tempo and support lifecycle of Office 365 ProPlus to sync with Windows 10

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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: Improving the channel's bottom line

  How to retain profitability within the channel is an issue vendors, distributors and resellers have to constantly stay focused on

• Cloud Computing: Outsourcing 2.0?

  ARN roundtable attendees debate whether cloud computing is just next-generation outsourcing

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Opinions

• Windows 10 is making too many PCs obsolete

  Windows 10 will be supported until Oct. 14, 2025 — unless your computer has a Clover Trail CPU. Then you’re out of luck.

• I don’t like being force-fed Windows 10

  Microsoft, along with AMD and Intel, has made darn sure you’ll be running Windows 10 and not Windows 7 on the next PC you buy

• Why an Verizon and Yahoo merger would be like Microsoft snapping up CompuServe

  Cultures collide, it happens. But this one is a bad idea.

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Reviews

• 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.

• Enterprise guide to Windows 10

  When to dive in, what new features will be available and how to avoid a messy upgrade.

• Unisys unveils invisibility cloak for network traffic

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