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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

Microsoft sees Teams spike amid social distancing rules

By Eleanor Dickinson | 30 March, 2020 09:47

Microsoft has reported a huge spike in usage of its collaboration tool Teams as countries around the world enforce social distancing measures.
CCL partners with Microsoft to become a "multi-cloud evangelist"

By By Rob O'Neill | 05 March, 2020 13:55

CCL and Microsoft announced a three-year strategic reseller partnership today aiming to drive migration to Microsoft Azure cloud technologies.
Internal Affairs contracts Unify Solutions to shift RealMe to Azure

By By Rob O'Neill | 02 March, 2020 10:21

Unify Solutions has been selected by the Department of Internal Affairs to help manage the transition of the RealMe login and assertion services to the Microsoft Azure cloud.
Valocity poised to accelerate global sales via Microsoft co-sell partnership

By By Rob O'Neill | 27 February, 2020 07:10

Kiwi mortgage and property valuation platform Valocity has achieved Microsoft Gold partner status and teamed with Microsoft's global sales force, which will now sell the platform globally.
Microsoft offers U.S.$40K bug bounty for generally available Azure Sphere

By Leon Spencer | 25 February, 2020 14:46

Microsoft is calling on security researchers to help identify and fix high impact vulnerabilities in its Azure Sphere IoT security solution, which is now generally available.

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."