Why did HCL buy $1.8B worth of legacy products from IBM?
As the ink dries on the largest acquisition made by HCL Technologies, the service provider must now move to monetise a legacy IBM portfolio.
Virtualisation
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Examining all the vendor conferences, great and small
I just returned from my final technology vendor conference of 2018 and have been thinking about how the size of the conference changes the experience.
Unitec teams up with Datacom to offer coding courses
Unitec Institute of Technology has joined forces with Datacom developers to teach students how to build apps and websites, through an online course.
MedTech alleges conspiracy against Kiwi health providers
Health software provider Medtech is alleging four defendants, including three New Zealand health providers, wrongfully conspired to use its software.
- Accenture just made seven acquisitions in 12 days
- Noel Leeming stung with $200K fine for misleading tech buyers
- Reserve Bank takes $3.3M hit on valuation software project
- Trade Me backs $2.5B buyout offer from UK private equity firm
- Phil Goldie prepares for return to Microsoft channel in Australia
- Dell prepares to go public following VMware deal approval
- DXC launches programme to help people on the autism spectrum build ICT careers
- When Kiwis fly: entries open for 2019 NZ Hi-Tech Awards
- Barbara Kidd takes charge of cloud division at Ingram Micro NZ
- Inside the evolving IoT strategy of Dell Technologies
- The CIO50: Deadline is on December 17
- HPE honours leading Kiwi partners in 2018
Security in the hybrid cloud
Cloud services are not new. Many of the technologies, such as remote access to applications, ready-to-use infrastructure and pre-configured environments have been around for many years. What has changed is the scope of different services and the scale they can offer. And the idea of having to size a system before deploying it is disappearing as new cloud platforms offer almost infinite scalability. Read more
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The making of an MSSP: a blueprint for growth in NZ
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Reseller News Platinum Club celebrates leading partners in 2018
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Meet the top performing HP partners in NZ
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Reseller News launches alumnae breakfast for Women in ICT Awards
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Reseller News Innovation Awards 2018: meet the high-flying industry leaders
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Reseller News Innovation Awards 2018: meet the top performing partners
Features
4 numbers that stood out in VMware’s earnings
: VMware this week updated investors on the progress of emerging technologies playing an increasingly significant role in the company’s earnings. VMware’s product mix includes not just compute virtualization, but network virtualization, cloud management and end user computing.
Customer demand shifts from hardware to software as data centre change heightens
“Industry-standard server (ISS) has a growing impact on the global data centre hardware market."
Google cloud chief on tackling the enterprise
Google's cloud leader discusses one of the biggest IT challenges related to enterprise cloud deployments and offers advice on how companies can identify the business functions that are best suited for the cloud.
Dream your own dream - the Nick Verykios story
<i>2012 ARN Hall of Fame inductee, Nick Verykios, is a rock’n’roll survivor, poet, Buddhist and philanthropist, as well as co-founder of the $250 million Distribution Central. This is his story.</i>
Vendors search for “pockets of growth” amidst “volatile” spending economy
“With the global economy entering a new and uncertain phase, IT spending will be heavily influenced by economic cycles and wild cards over the next five years."
Opinions
I don’t like being force-fed Windows 10
The nagware announcements are gone, but 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 HP is failing and Dell is winning
This week was Dell's Annual Analyst Conference (DAAC) and next week is HP Discover [disclaimer: I've worked with HP and Dell for over a decade and covered both firms extensively], but this year I'll pass on the HP event and will be at VCE's analyst conference in Chicago. Here's why.
Reviews
Hands on: The iPad Pro -- It's a laptop! It's a tablet!
With the arrival this week of the iPad Pro, Apple launches a salvo in the hybrid, 2-in-1 wars. It's clearly a great tablet, but will it replace a laptop?
Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of Cloud performance
Before turning to the world of Cloud computing, let's pause to remember the crazy days of the 1970s when the science of the assembly line wasn't well-understood and consumers discovered that each purchase was something of a gamble.
