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Hewlett-Packard New Zealand back in black - despite halving of revenue

Mon, 3rd Apr 2017
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Hewlett-Packard New Zealand has posted a $10.0 million profit for the latest financial year – despite seeing revenue nearly halved.
Week

The week in channel-land: Partner awards, parties and plenty of business too

Fri, 31st Mar 2017
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exeed
Channelland buzzes with partner accolades, bustling business deals, and spirited shindigs—a rollicking week of tech tales!.
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Bumble Bee alert for Queenstown-bound Ingram Micro NZ team

Thu, 30th Mar 2017
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If you happen upon two bumble bees wandering New Zealand roads heading to Queenstown, open the doors and let them in...
Medical

Healthcare organisations looking to IoT as central in driving DX

Wed, 29th Mar 2017
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IoT in healthcare is heating up with 41% of APAC healthcare organisations planning to launch IoT solutions in the next two years.
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Spectrum, Unite and API Talent take top CA honours

Wed, 29th Mar 2017
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Spectrum has had double glory at CA's ANZ Partner awards, taking out both local and global awards, with Unite and API Talent also claiming ANZ awards.
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Microsoft NZ on Azure and Office 365 opportunities and the changing channel

Wed, 29th Mar 2017
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microsoft azure
Microsoft NZ's new channel boss, Phil Goldie, talks Azure and Office 365 opportunities, partnerships and the changing face of the Microsoft channel.
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Mall operator Scentre sold on DX after DiData Microsoft project

Tue, 28th Mar 2017
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microsoft
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cloud services
A digital transformation initiative with Dimension Data and Microsoft has seen mall operator Scentre transform its relationship with customers.
Cloud hands

Azure and new hosting solutions coming to Ingram Micro Cloud's Odin platform

Tue, 28th Mar 2017
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microsoft
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ingram micro
Ingram Micro Cloud is adding new tools for Azure and new hosting solutions to its latest release of the Odin Automation Essentials platform.
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Hyperconverged systems see hyper growth as overall converged market declines

Mon, 27th Mar 2017
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analyst report
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research director
Hyperconverged systems surged by 87.3% in Q4, countering a declining overall converged systems market, which saw a 1.4% drop.
New customers

LoB IT spend to nearly equal IT dept spend on back of IoT, AI

Mon, 27th Mar 2017
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analyst report
LoB buyers will have almost equal IT spend as their IT departments come 2020 according to IDC, thanks in part to 'innovation accelerators' such as IoT.
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Exclusive: Making storage and DR a critical part of the security conversation

Mon, 27th Mar 2017
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data protection
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DR and backup is critical to an overall security solution, according to StorageCraft's Leo Lynch. He talks changing conversations and growing markets.
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Exeed brings Kiwi developed cloud platform to reseller base

Mon, 27th Mar 2017
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Exeed is teaming up with Waikato's LayerX Group to offer resellers a Kiwi owned and operated cloud services platform for SMBs.
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The week in channel-land: Distie deals, court action - and that $400m investment

Fri, 24th Mar 2017
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Distie deals, court cases, calls to action - and a $400 million investment in NZ courtesy of Huawei. Welcome to channel-land's week that was.
Collaborate

Arrow and Unify bring Circuit mobile collaboration and comms platform to local market

Thu, 23rd Mar 2017
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Unify says Circuit, launched with Arrow Electronics, enables resellers to deliver 'powerful and intuitive' team collaboration to customers.
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Exclusive: Epson EcoTank SMB push offering opportunities for resellers

Thu, 23rd Mar 2017
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Epson's SMB EcoTank printer push offers local resellers upfront margins on hardware and ink, upsell opportunities and a unique offering, says NZ boss.
Global experts

Blackberry targets value added integrators with new partner program

Wed, 22nd Mar 2017
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partners
BlackBerry new value added integrator program aims to build a global network of technology experts and provide expanded distribution for embedded apps.
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Ingram Micro enriches reseller cloud opportunities with new deal

Tue, 21st Mar 2017
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microsoft
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microsoft azure
Ingram Micro says a new agreement with NetEnrich will allow any partners to become cloud managed services providers using Azure and other platforms.
Gavel judge

Ignorance no defence as Bestdeals cops $47k fine

Tue, 21st Mar 2017
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commerce commission
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mobile trader
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fair trading act
Being unaware of legal requirements is no defence for breaches of the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act and FTA, as Bestdeals has discovered.
Cloud data centre

Dell EMC muscles in on cloud infrastructure leaders HPE and Cisco

Mon, 20th Mar 2017
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datacentre infrastructure
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synergy research
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research director
Dell's merger with EMC has seen it jump to the top of the cloud infrastructure market to share a three way tie with HPE and Cisco.
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Tableau honours local partners at Asia Pacific Partner Awards

Mon, 20th Mar 2017
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resellers
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tableau
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Tableau celebrates Asia Pacific partners' achievements, recognising EON, RXP, Accenture and more at a prestigious awards summit.