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Accenture has won a five year deal to help manage Specsavers technology as the optician prepares for a digital future.

Signagelive is using NFC and Beacon technology are being used to help serve up contextual and responsive, interactive digital signage.

Panasonic and Facebook have collaborated on a new 'freeze-ray' cold storage solution they say will reduce data center costs and energy use.

Citrix is selling its CloudPlatform cloud computing software and CloudPortal Business Manager to Accelerite as it continues to streamline its business.

Dick Smith creditors are owed nearly AU$400 million dollars. Meanwhile, the company's chief executive has resigned, effective immediately.

Microsoft NZ revels in a strong fiscal year, with profits up 18% and revenue growing to £96m amidst significant corporate reshuffles.

Splunk has come out tops in a new report on enterprise SIEM, but the report also shows significant obstacles are hampering the SIEM promise.

Noel Leeming, Harvey Norman and JB Hi-Fi steal the march as the first retailers to win the rights to sell Microsoft's Surface Book.

SAP ANZ's key exec, Greg Miller, to depart in search of new leadership vistas after expanding partner success.

Potential buyers for the failed Dick Smith business have until January 27 to get expressions of interest in for the company's businesses.

Big data was a big topic in 2015. So what lies ahead in 2016? MapR boss John Schroeder outlines what he believes will be 2016's five big data trends.

Burberry has teamed up with Dreamworks' Nova to launch an interactive 3D campaign at Piccadilly Circus, allowing users to personalise scarves via their mobiles.

Claims against two Optimizer HQ subsidiaries are likely to hit $11.3 million, with liquidators reviewing the sale of business assets pre-liquidation.

Security intelligence and analytical capabilities will come to the fore in the battle against cybercrime next year.

VCE and Cisco have teamed up to help create more secure data centres and take the complexity out of deploying SDN.

Carbonite is bolstering its disaster recovery-as-a-service offerings with a US$14 million acquisition of Seagate Technology's EVault business.

Distribution Central is bringing Sumo Logic data analytics to resellers throughout Australia and New Zealand after signing a new distribution deal.

ShoreTel has promoted Ben Swanson to Asia Pacific channel boss, as the UC vendor seeks increased profile and business locally.

Nuage Networks has added a self-service certification initiative to its partner program, providing easy verification of Nuage SDN compatibility.

If you thought hybrid cloud was big now, wait til next year, with IDC predicting 'a big year' for solutions built on hybrid cloud architectures.