Hitachi Vantara has sponsored an IDC survey looking at the technology’s usage and adoption barriers across Asia Pacific.

One Identity was recognised in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management for completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Accenture has bought out Oracle Software-as-a-Service provider PrimeQ, which now makes Accenture the largest Oracle Cloud systems integrator in Australia and New Zealand.

Channel firms should be on the lookout for opportunities across open source and more diverse software offerings like software-defined containers and storage.

“Recently our corporate CFO, Meng Wanzhou, was provisionally detained by the Canadian authorities on behalf of the United States of America."

Microsoft’s latest-generation Surface devices unlock more power, performance and value for business customers.

First it was about data moving to the edge, now Gartner says it's taking one step further.

“We recognise some businesses are on nbn powered plans that have not been optimised for their needs," says Paul Tyler.

Symantec Industrial Control System Protection Neural helps defend against USB-borne cyber attacks on operational technology.

An IDC report predicts a soft personal PC market, slipping into further decline with the exception of notebooks, gaming PCs, and business PC upgrades.

Google+ APIs will be shut down within the next 90 days, and the consumer platform will be disabled in April 2019 instead of August 2019 as originally planned.

Vertiv has placed particular emphasis on edge computing being the ‘epicentre’ of innovation in the data centre space.

"Top Chinese mobile phone manufacturers boosted their sales across emerging markets in the third quarter of 2018.”

As more organisations embrace digital business, infrastructure and operations leaders will need to evolve their strategies and skills to keep up.

Customer want to optimise branch connectivity to their IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud services.

"This is the first time we have won this award and I think it’s a reflection of our commitment to creating a stronger customer-focused culture.”

“Having Mitel’s solutions in our portfolio will reinforce our position as a market leader."

Providing direct internet access to cloud-based applications has made deploying new security strategies designed for the distributed enterprise critical.

Updates to the Juniper Advanced Threat Prevention Appliances leverage third-party firewalls and security data sources.

The JASK ASOC platform automates alert investigations, supposedly freeing the SOC analyst to do what machines can’t. 

Optic Security Group is the name of one of A/NZ’s latest mega-mergers in the physical and digital security space, bringing combined revenues in excess of A$100 million to the table.

The integration enables Trustwave to harness the synergies of Singtel’s global cybersecurity business, revenue, capabilities across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.

As IT infrastructure and operations take an continually growing role in the IT ecosystem, Gartner highlights what to prepare for in the year ahead.

While the market is flourishing, it’s tough-going as Cisco has increased its majority share of the pie.

The report explores changes in the threat landscape over the past year, uncovering trends and how they are expected to impact cybersecurity in 2019.

The strategic partnership aims to combine the companies capabilities to deliver real-time analytics to businesses across Australia.

Two OVH executives have weighed in on how network infrastructure and the challenges in that space will be evolving in the coming year.

The vendor landscape for SIEM is evolving, with recent entrants bringing technologies optimised for analytics use cases.

Security teams increasingly need end-to-end SIEM solutions with native options for host- and network-level monitoring.

“As we close my first fiscal year as CEO, I am incredibly proud of where we stand in the marketplace."

PingOne for Customers is built for the developer community and provides API-based identity services for customer-facing applications.

“Now that over 3,700 SAP partners have joined our cloud strategy, the free resources will help them accelerate application development."

H3C, Cisco and Huawei have all gained share in the growing competition in the data centre switching market.

IDC has provided a rather gloomy forecast but there are opportunities to be exploited on the horizon.

By securing your network at the DDI level, you can prevent DNS attacks, data exfiltration, and put a barrier around every connected device.

Robotic systems will be the larger of the two categories throughout the five-year forecast period with worldwide robotics spending forecast to be $103.4 billion in 2019.

“This is just the beginning. Through 5G, we are creating truly immersive and revolutionary smartphones that will unlock a whole new user experience."

A global survey by WatchGuard has shown that more than 80% of resellers believe their customers are most worried about ransomware and its effects.

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Mobile text-based two-factor authentication is no longer a trustworthy second factor as it isn’t effective against phishing attacks.

The appointments will enable WatchGuard to expand its regional channel reseller footprint.

The VR headset market returned to growth in 3Q18 after four consecutive quarters of decline and now makes up 97% of the combined market.

In Australia and New Zealand, the company boosted PureCloud revenue by nearly 100%.

The report provides a detailed overview of the enterprise information archiving market and evaluates vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.

There was a lot to unpack at the Canalys APAC Channels Forum keynote. This long-form piece tries to cover all the most relevant points for A/NZ.