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Ingram Micro resellers opted for surfing the ocean rather than the internet recently, in the distie's Hooked on Lenovo promotion.

Watch out disties – the new local boss for Exclusive Networks NZ and BigTec is fired up, talking tough and ready to take on the market.

Dicker Data NZ revs up the launch of its Lenovo agency with a Mustang-fueled Route 66 adventure for winning resellers.

His new role at IBM has opened Mark Baker's eyes to new opportunities IBM presents for the channel. Now he's on a mission to share that.

Westcon-Comstor will launch an AWS spot instance optimisation tool later this month to enable resellers to take advantage of spot optimisation prices.

Technologies enabling DX will drive more than 75% of Kiwi IT spend by 2019 with 50% of all infrastructure and software spend being cloud-based by 2020.

Microsoft, Google and IBM are slowly gaining on AWS in the public cloud services market, as the IaaS and PaaS infrastructure service market top US$7b.

Strength in its IoT, data centre and security offerings helped drive Intel revenues for 2016 up, but weren't enough to prevent declining net income.

Rhipe has signed up digital transaction management and eSignature vendor DocuSign in a deal it says enables partners to help customers get paid faster.

HDS is putting the focus on the government sector with a new appointment – snapping up a second former HPE staffer in a week in the process.

Avnet has signed a deal with CloudPhysics providing resellers with a new tool to help customers gain operational insights to their vSphere environment.

Four key trends stood out for Noel Leeming's team attending CES. Jason Bell tells us what they were - and what they mean for the local market.

Datto has acquired cloud-based networking provider Open Mesh in a deal designed to provide channel partners with new managed networking services.

Sektor has been appointed a distributor for Axis Communications as IP cameras move into the business, rather than being just a security offering.

Vaughan Nankivell is being remembered as a man who threw himself into life and was passionate about all he did.

CompTIA offers up seven steps to sell your IT services business - and says it isn't just those selling that can benefit from getting ready for a sale.

Microsoft's cloud push has seen the company post strong results for Q2 2017, with Office 365 and intelligent cloud leading the charge.

Netformx, which provides software for IT solution providers, is ramping up its APAC presence with the appointment of a BDM for the region.

Datatec, parent company to Westcon Group and Logicalis, has issued a cautionary statement that it is in negotiations for a significant transaction.

One of Australia's most high profile channel bosses is heading to NZ, with Microsoft's Phil Goldie taking on a new role at Microsoft NZ.