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In pictures: Microsoft honours the NZ channel at partner awards

Microsoft NZ honoured its channel community at the 2013 Partner Awards that took place last evening in Auckland's Langham Hotel. A total of 22 awards were given out across four main categories including Cloud, Competency, Individual and Segment. Partners with strong Cloud solutions and projects dominated the event, including SoftSource, which picked up three awards, and Gen-i and IT Engine, which collected two awards each.Speaking at the event, Paul Muckleston, MD of Microsoft NZ, promised two Azure data centres in Australia soon for partners to tap into and provide computing power to their customers.

In pictures: Microsoft honours the NZ channel at partner awards
In pictures: Microsoft Cloud OS summit in Auckland

Microsoft recently brought together IT end-users and decision makers at the Cloud OS summit to highlight the company's efforts in the cloud and its Azure platform, among others.

In pictures: Microsoft Cloud OS summit in Auckland

News about azure

Azure Firewall Manager flares into general availability

By Sasha Karen | 02 July, 2020 12:19

Microsoft’s Azure Firewall Manager suite has left preview and entered general availability.
Microsoft is buying CyberX to bolster its Azure IoT security

By Jon Gold | 23 June, 2020 08:44

Microsoft has announced it will purchase the industrially focused network security vendor CyberX for an undisclosed sum in an effort to bolster the security capabilities of its Azure IoT platform.
Workday Adaptive Planning now runs on Azure as Microsoft returns the favour

By James Henderson | 28 May, 2020 06:51

Microsoft has joined forces with Workday to enhance customer experience capabilities at enterprise planning level.
Microsoft’s NZ data centre ambition to boost digital economy

By Leon Spencer | 20 May, 2020 15:38

Microsoft’s move to set up its first data centre region in New Zealand looks set to give the country’s digital economy a tickle, if new analysis by GlobalData is anything to go by.
Microsoft helps to deliver Auckland Hospital twin

By Leon Spencer | 19 May, 2020 11:44

Microsoft is collaborating with digital engineering and software company Asbuilt to help provide new solutions that could transform the way hospitals are built and operated.

Features about azure

Which Cloud hosting partner is most likely to win your business?

By James Henderson | 29 April, 2015 05:50

Which tech giant is most likely to win significant Cloud hosting projects? Amazon Web Services? Microsoft? IBM?
INSIGHT: Why businesses should consider moving to the Azure cloud

By James Henderson | 10 April, 2015 12:43

With Microsoft announcing the launch of Azure data centres in Australia, significant benefits may be realised for organisations considering moving to the cloud.
Australian firms embrace Microsoft Azure - are Kiwis next?

By James Henderson | 25 March, 2015 09:18

"Deploying our solutions with Microsoft allows us to build on that momentum with a trusted global partner."
Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard - What does this mean for NZ?

By James Henderson | 23 February, 2015 06:41

Microsoft becomes first major cloud provider to adopt the world’s first international standard for cloud privacy, what does this mean for New Zealand businesses considering a move to the cloud?
INSIGHT: Hyperscale public Clouds: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em

By James Henderson | 02 February, 2015 04:20

“Bigger players in the market are less willing to concede defeat to AWS and Azure. Such is the case with VMware and Google."