About Sara
Sara Barker
Copywriter and Senior News Editor
Sara lives in a world of words and stories. For more than six years she has been delving deep into the rich world of tech news, content creation, journalism and reviews for Techday. She brings an academic background in information systems, marketing, radio, and journalism to her role. She enjoys casual gaming, cats, and reading.
Former TechDay team member.
Stories by Sara - Page 121
GTX's new matching engine to be housed in Equinix Tokyo data center
Fri, 18th Nov 2016
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Electronic market trading provider GTX will be launching a new matching engine next year to service its flagship ECN in Equinix's Tokyo data center.
Kiwis more trusting of digital payment methods - and customer experience is the driver
Fri, 18th Nov 2016
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cx
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martech
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commerce systems
Kiwis are starting to trust digital payment methods much more since contactless, mobile wallets and online checkouts have arrived on the scene.
Microsoft Asia signs up Kevin Wo as new Singapore managing director
Thu, 17th Nov 2016
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digital transformation
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microsoft
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it management
Microsoft has announced this week that Kevin Wo will be taking over from Jessica Tan as the company's new managing director for Singapore.
PCCW chooses Dijbouti Data Center to connect AAE-1 undersea cable
Thu, 17th Nov 2016
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network infrastructure
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hyperscale
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dc
Hong Kong telco PCCW Global has chosen an African data center to further colocation and undersea fibre networks in Asia, Africa, Middle East & Europe.
Dropbox doubles down on corporate data protection
Thu, 17th Nov 2016
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cloud security
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dropbox
Dropbox says it's doubling down on corporate data protection with new security controls designed to protect data and make it easier to collaborate.
Spark waives early termination & moving fees for quake-affected customers
Thu, 17th Nov 2016
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uc
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earthquakes
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broadband
Spark broadband customers who have been forced to move due to the earthquakes no longer need to deal with early termination & moving fees.
Survey reveals ANZ organisations evolving to become more data-centric
Wed, 16th Nov 2016
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data analytics
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data science
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martech
ANZ organisations are on their way to becoming data-centric and will eventually leave simple data analytics behind, says Teradata.
Optus & Huawei record 'ground-breaking' 5G speed trial
Wed, 16th Nov 2016
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uc
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5g & beyond
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wireless networks
Optus and Huawei have now successfully completed a 'ground-breaking' 5G trial, which achieved a transmission rate of 35Gbps.
Colt powers on AWS Direct Connect Access in Singapore
Wed, 16th Nov 2016
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hyperscale
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public cloud
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dc
Colt Technology Services has now switched on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect access node, hosted in Global Switch's Singapore data center.
F5 Networks partners with Equinix to launch new cloud solutions
Wed, 16th Nov 2016
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devops
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hyperscale
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dc
F5 Networks has announced a new series of solutions for its public, private and hybrid clouds & new partnerships with Equinix and Performance Hub.
SugarCRM's new APJ vice president stays committed to partner ecosystem
Wed, 16th Nov 2016
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crm
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martech
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partner programmes
Mark Troselj is taking over as SugarCRM's vice president of Asia Pacific and Japan, and vows not to compete with its partners.
Singapore-based Keppel DC takes Alpha Data Centre Fund on maiden acquisition
Tue, 15th Nov 2016
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datacentre infrastructure
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hyperscale
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dc
Keppel DC is the first company to partner with Alpha Data Centre Fund to purchase a data center in in of Europe's key internet exchanges.
NTT Com, NTT Data, Intel & Pivotal collaborate on cloud-native solutions for enterprises
Tue, 15th Nov 2016
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devops
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apm
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software development
NTT Communications (NTT Com), NTT Data, Intel and Pivotal will work together with Intel to bring cloud-native solutions to enterprises.
VeloCloud's 'industry first' solution powers voice quality monitoring direct to SD-WAN
Tue, 15th Nov 2016
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network infrastructure
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sd-wan
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hyperscale
VeloCloud has unveiled what it calls an 'industry-first' SD-WAN solution to include Voice Quality Monitoring (VQM) capability.
Scanning documents to email? You could be risking your business
Tue, 15th Nov 2016
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document management
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ecm
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martech
If employees in your business scan documents direct to email, it could be a huge security risk and breach privacy requirements, according to Y Soft.
Coriant and Internet Multifeed scale up Japan's interconnect 'backbone'
Mon, 14th Nov 2016
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datacentre infrastructure
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internet exchange
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coriant
Japanese internet exchange provider, Internet Multifeed, has chosen Coriant's Groove G30 DCI platform to expand its network due to data traffic growth.
Gartner Magic Quadrant recognises OpenText as 'leader' in ECM
Mon, 14th Nov 2016
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ecm
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martech
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opentext
Enterprise information management provider OpenText has been positioned as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management.
QNAP launches new rackmount enterprise-class NAS drives
Mon, 14th Nov 2016
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storage
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dr
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cloud services
QNAP's latest NAS drives in the TES-x85U series are now on the market, bringing high performance to a new level in enterprise-class storage backup.
Schneider Electric targets environmental hazards in data center security
Fri, 11th Nov 2016
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datacentre infrastructure
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hyperscale
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dc
Schneider Electric is encouraging data centers to take a proactive monitoring approach to data center security.
IBM & VMware partnership brings applications to hybrid cloud 'within hours'
Fri, 11th Nov 2016
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virtualisation
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hyperscale
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public cloud
VMware Cloud Foundation is now being hosted on IBM cloud, which is helping to move existing enterprise applications to the cloud 'within hours'.