How one cruise giant is turning to IoT and Splunk for more personalised guest experiences
Carnival Corporation is leveraging data collected from guest's smartphones and wearable devices to deliver more personalised onboard experiences.
Virtualisation
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A new channel chief is appointed every 11 days across A/NZ
A new channel chief is appointed every 11 days across Australia and New Zealand, as vendor churn continues to destabilise the channel.
Reseller News Innovation Awards 2018: and the winners are…
Reseller News honoured the industry’s finest on a standout evening for the channel in New Zealand, recognising the achievements of a leading line-up of partners, ...
Hawke's Bay readies roll-out of IRIS shared council software
Hawke's Bay Regional Council is implementing shared council software from the IRIS consortium taking the number of users to seven.
- Cisco Webex outage: collaboration service finding a lumpy recovery
- UK tech refurbisher builds new software platform amid NZ launch
- Inside VMware’s pick and mix marketing service for partners
- NZTech boss welcomes R&D incentive, believes will boost growth
- Kiwi business confidence sinks to nine-year low, puts central bank on alert
- Facebook breached, 50M users impacted
- Reseller News Innovation Awards - Channel Choice voting closing soon
- Fujitsu NZ climbs back to profit on flat revenue
- After "shocker" recruitment process, NZTech suggests a DIY CTO
- TPT Group acquires Wellington-based IT Engine
- Partners must get straight to the point with buyers, or lose them
- Infrastructure vendors primed as data centre receives cash injection
Why SSL inspection needs to become the new standard for businesses
In a world where data security is key, it is vitally important that every business has the best protection possible for its incoming and outgoing data and that means using Secure Sockets layer (SSL) encryption, decryption and inspection. However, it is now no longer enough to trust that encrypted data transmission is completely secure because hackers and other criminals have found a way to use it to their benefit.. Read more
Slideshows
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Champagne Reception kicks off Reseller News Innovation Awards 2018
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Chasing innovation: how Kiwi partners can create a new customer agenda
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Kiwi channel comes together as After Hours hits Auckland
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EDGE 2018: Kiwis kick back with Super Rugby before NZ session
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EDGE 2018: Kiwis assess key customer priorities through NZ research
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EDGE 2018: Golfers go for glory in the EDGE Cup with HP
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.
