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• The self-service analytics market convergence is upon us

  Just a week after Google Cloud acquired analytics software company Looker for US$2.6 billion, Salesforce acquired Tableau for US$15.7 billion.

• Microsoft, Oracle team up on cloud services in jab at Amazon

  Microsoft and Oracle have reached an agreement to make their two cloud computing services work together with high-speed links between their data centres, targeting big business users and uniting against cloud leader AWS.

• AWS hiring spree focuses on strengthening NZ partner community

  ​Amazon Web Services NZ is gearing up with a new local structure and new hires, many focused on the partner community.

• The enterprise service mesh ecosystem comes into focus

  The service mesh is rounding into maturity in 2019, with all of the major cloud providers offering a means for developers to unify traffic flow management.

• Dropbox Enterprise to be officially deployed across Auckland Uni

  ​Dropbox and the University of Auckland have inked a four-year agreement to provide researchers at the university with access to Dropbox Business (Enterprise).

• ​Selling Cloud - Why it’s time to change the sales compensation

  Channel Dynamics co-founder, Moheb Moses, believes Cloud computing calls for a new approach to sales compensation.

• ​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."

• ​Chance for channel growth as SaaS remains dominant Public Cloud type

  “Over the past several years, the software industry has been shifting to a Cloud-first (SaaS) development and deployment model."

• ​Red Hat: Top 5 trends for the channel to capitalise on in 2016

  "There's a re-think among channel suppliers about what they offer as part of their core business and how to offer it."

• Why oil price collapse will accelerate datacentre investment in 2016

  “Datacentres, with their monolithic energy consumption, will benefit from cheaper electricity as wholesale gas prices decline."

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