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IN PICTURES: Salesforce World Tour 2016 in Melbourne (+30 photos)

Cloud computing company, Salesforce, recently hosted its World Tour in Melbourne to share its vision on the ‘Age of the Customer’ and the opportunities this presents for Australian organisations. The event also showcased innovation and the building of the knowledge economy. Here are some photos from the event.

IN PICTURES: Salesforce World Tour 2016 in Melbourne (+30 photos)
IN PICTURES: ARN Cloud Executive Lunch (+39 photos)

The ARN Cloud Executive Lunch brought together a group of industry experts who illustrated how they approached the Cloud market in a unique way, the challenges, opportunities and successes they had seen, and offered advice for those who are still making the transition. The lunch was sponsored by Dicker Data. Photos by ARN Editorial Director, Mike Gee.

IN PICTURES: ARN Cloud Executive Lunch (+39 photos)
IN PICTURES: The Distributor is the New Age Facilitator - An ARN Roundtable, Sydney, 18.02.16 (+45 photos)

The market has disrupted – the traditional IT distribution channel is being challenged and it is impacting business models. As such, the role of the distributor needs to evolve to keep up with current times. In addition, the engagements between resellers, distributors, facilitators, and vendors are changing, causing ISVs to become suppliers and competing vendors to collaborate with each other. From a distribution perspective, competitors are now working together too. As the discussion moves away from talking about the push down from vendor to reseller to partner, to how knowledge sharing flows through the channel, businesses should start looking for ways where they can add value to this changing role of the partner. This exclusive roundtable discussed the way the channel is changing, how partner go-to-market strategies are evolving to become integrated networks, how businesses should collaborate with each other to go quicker to market and ways it can support an end-to-end Cloud strategy. The roundtable was sponsored by rhipe. Photos by ARN Editorial Director, Mike Gee

IN PICTURES: The Distributor is the New Age Facilitator - An ARN Roundtable, Sydney, 18.02.16 (+45 photos)
IN PICTURES: ARN Backup and Disaster Recovery Roundtable, Sydney, 17.02.16

When disaster strikes, it is not just data that needs restoring, but the full working environment, which means disaster recovery. No doubt the increasing use of virtualisation and the transition towards Cloud computing is changing the way backup and disaster recovery are being carried out. With the growing reliance on Cloud, many organisations are opting for a hybrid Cloud model, whereby Cloud storage and Cloud backup are paired with an on-premise backup appliance. It is an ideal way to expedite data recovery and meet demanding SLAs. This exclusive roundtable highlighted the latest partner opportunities, discuss customer pain points and market trends (including the emergence of disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) and the growing adoption of Cloud backup), and examine the latest state of play. The roundtable was sponsored by Bulletproof, Storagecraft and Veritas. Photos by ARN Editorial Director, Mike Gee.

IN PICTURES: ARN Backup and Disaster Recovery Roundtable, Sydney, 17.02.16
IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Data Protection in the Hybrid Cloud (+28 photos)

This exclusive ARN roundtable highlighted the opportunities and trends in the data protection market, and how the industry has evolved; examined the unique challenges in the hybrid Cloud environment and the associated customer pain points, and highlighted the growing business opportunities for partners. It was sponsored by EMC. Photos by ARN editorial Director, MIKE GEE.

IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Data Protection in the Hybrid Cloud (+28 photos)
IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Future of the datacentre: Shifts and trends towards 2020

The demand for IT resources is constantly increasing, with new workloads, users and data growing at an astounding rate. IT leaders must perform careful capacity planning to ensure adequate resources are available and service performance is maintained. And with disruptive technologies like virtualisation, Cloud solutions, mobile applications, IoT, software-defined infrastructure and converged infrastructures all changing the face of the datacentre, there is mounting pressure from IT to ensure technologies are integrated and managed properly. This exclusive roundtable highlighted the trends shaping the datacentre of today and into the future, from energy efficiencies to colocation and Cloud, while also examining opportunities and key challenges facing service providers in this highly competitive market. Photos by ARN Editorial Director, MIKE GEE.

IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Future of the datacentre: Shifts and trends towards 2020
IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Becoming Agile In The Cloud (+29 photos)

A group of industry leaders came together for the latest ARN roundtable to examine the problems in translating Cloud to customers. It considered best practice for 2016 - the possible options of selling and implementing Cloud solutions to customers and look at the broad picture of business agility in the Cloud. The Cloud roundtable, held at Scarlett Restaurant in the Rocks, was sponsored by Citrix and Veeam. Photos by Editorial Director, MIKE GEE

IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Becoming Agile In The Cloud (+29 photos)
IN PICTURES: AWS re:Invent 2015 - Day One highlights (+18 photos)

More than 19,000 people, 4000 partners, a small city of IT, all focused on AWS re:Invent 2015 at The Venetian in Las Vegas. ARN's Chris Player captured these snapshots of day one. He is attending the event as a guest of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

IN PICTURES: AWS re:Invent 2015 - Day One highlights (+18 photos)
In Pictures: Top Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service vendors

Choosing the right Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider is growing increasingly difficult in a highly competitive market. Here are the top IaaS players identified by Gartner and their recommended use cases.

In Pictures: Top Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service vendors
IN PICTURES: EDGE 2015 - Day Two breakout sessions (+17 photos)

Day two of business at EDGE 2015 saw three breakout sessions. with vendors Acronis, NEXTDC and IBM taking the stage. Acronis held a roundtable around the theme of Lead from the front: It’s time to have the Who? What? Why? enterprise mobility conversation. NEXTDC held a Steve Martin-led presentation, The leadership role of the channel in moving customers to the Cloud – and understanding realities, while IBM's panel discussion considered Analytics – The channel’s new sweet spot. Photos by Hafizah Osman.

IN PICTURES: EDGE 2015 - Day Two breakout sessions (+17 photos)
In Pictures: 9 most important announcements at Google I/O 2015

From Android M to Google Photos to the updates to Google Play, here are the most important announcements at Google I/O 2015.

In Pictures: 9 most important announcements at Google I/O 2015
In Pictures: Here’s what the floor at Google I/O 2015 looks like

Check out what actually happened at Google’s big annual shindig in San Francisco.

In Pictures: Here’s what the floor at Google I/O 2015 looks like
In Pictures: Seven best practices for Cloud security

Learn how to protect yourself in the Cloud from the next vulnerability and/or wide scale attack.

In Pictures: Seven best practices for Cloud security
In Pictures: The 8 things we’re looking for at Google I/O 2015

A look ahead to this week's Big Google Thing in San Francisco on May 28 and 29.

In Pictures: The 8 things we’re looking for at Google I/O 2015
IN PICTURES: Ingram Micro Experience - Adelaide (+48 photos)

The Ingram Micro Experience 2015 is making its way around Australia - and ARN was the official sponsor of the keynote speaker, Tim Reid. The Adelaide leg was held at the National Wine Centre, and saw Ingram and its partners showcasing their products, services and the latest technology. Photos by Allan Swann

IN PICTURES: Ingram Micro Experience - Adelaide (+48 photos)