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Centrify is opening its first Australian data centre as demand for its identity-as-a-service offerings and in-region data storage grows.

VMware has dumped plans to partner with parent company EMC in the Virtustream cloud services joint venture, announced just months ago.

HPE, Cisco and Microsoft - and rack servers - are leading the way to a US$120 billion data centre infrastructure market.

Avnet has appointed its first chief information security officer to ensure its information assets, and those of partners and customers, are protected.

Unified threat management is propelling the security appliance market forward. So which vendors are winning in the market?.

Dell intensifies its data centre strategy by forming the Extreme Scale Infrastructure unit, led by ex-HP exec James Mouton.

Leading cloud providers are investing many billions of dollars expanding their network of hyperscale data centers in order to cope with huge demand.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia is deploying more than 1200 displays as it moves to digital signage to increase market share and reduce printed material.

CommScope's new iTracs data center infrastructure management release is helping take the guesswork out of capacity planning for data centers.

EMC launches RackHD, championing open source in data centres, and vows to ease the burden on engineers with automation.

Asia Pacific accounts for more than 40% of the global IoT spend of $698.6 billion in 2015, with insurance telematics leading the way according to IDC.

AT&T and Digital Realty have joined forces in an expanded deal that will broaden AT&T's colocation footprint, enabling it to expand into more markets.

NTT Communications has opened a four story, US$32 million Bangkok data center, boasting 3800 square meters of server room.

Huawei's cloud fabric data center network solution has been put to work to build a new virtualised multi-tenant cloud data center for Abraxas.

Microsoft and enterprise software provider TechnologyOne have joined forces, integrating Microsoft Office 365 TechnologyOne's ECM offering.

Big data analytics is becoming a boom market and a big differentiator in IoT deployments - for enterprise, SMB and the channel.

AWS is planning data centers in South Korea and India next year, with the Indian market heating up with Microsoft and IBM also opening centers there.

The data center infrastructure market in India is forecast to be worth US$2 billion in 2016 according to a report from industry analysts, Gartner.

Smart commercial buildings will be a driving force in the uptake of internet of things, Gartner says, opening the doors for resellers to capitalise.

International acquisitions of Kiwi companies often spell the beginning of the end for the local operations, but for Zeacom it's a different story.