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The Ultimate Guide to Converged Infrastructure

A curated Kiwi edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Converged Infrastructure.

What to know about Converged Infrastructure

Converged infrastructure represents the integration of compute, storage, networking, and management into a unified system designed to streamline data center operations and support digital transformation. It simplifies IT environments, reduces complexity, and enhances scalability and agility, making it a key enabler for businesses adapting to rapid technological change.

This collection of stories explores how converged and hyperconverged infrastructures are evolving to meet the demands of modern enterprises, highlighting market shifts, vendor innovations, partnership ecosystems, and practical applications across industries. From accelerating cloud adoption and facilitating hybrid environments to driving cost efficiencies and enabling data-driven operations, converged infrastructure is shaping the future of enterprise IT.

Readers interested in understanding how integrated technological solutions can optimize infrastructure management, support agile business models, and foster innovation will find valuable insights in these articles. They reveal trends, challenges, and strategic considerations for leveraging converged systems to enhance competitiveness and operational excellence in today’s fast-paced digital landscape.

Kiwi Converged Infrastructure News

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Recent Converged Infrastructure News

Pure Storage leaves Arrow for Westcon
Arrow ECS

Pure Storage leaves Arrow for Westcon

After two and a half years of success with Arrow ECS in the NZ market, Pure Storage has made the move to exclusivity with Westcon-Comstor.

Thu, 22nd Mar 2018

Commvault's powerful new hyperconverged infrastructure simplifies data management
Data management

Commvault's powerful new hyperconverged infrastructure simplifies data management

There's an increasing awareness of and focus on secondary data serving more uses to the business, rather than simply being an insurance policy.

Tue, 13th Feb 2018

EBOOK: How to avoid the pitfalls of enterprise cloud adoption
Ebooks

EBOOK: How to avoid the pitfalls of enterprise cloud adoption

One of the biggest concerns businesses have about moving to the cloud is sacrificing the security and control of having your applications on-premise.

Tue, 23rd Jan 2018

Gisborne District Council issues tender for IT makeover
Disaster Recovery

Gisborne District Council issues tender for IT makeover

​Gisborne's District Council has issued a tender for the replacement of its end-of-life servers and storage with hyper-converged infrastructure.

Thu, 2nd Nov 2017

Exclusive: Veeam focuses on flexibility for Availability Suite v10
Disaster Recovery

Exclusive: Veeam focuses on flexibility for Availability Suite v10

Veeam's Nathan Steiner talks about what its partnerships mean for its Australian and New Zealand service providers.

Mon, 21st Aug 2017

A haka for hybrid cloud: The optimal data storage strategy for NZ enterprises
Hybrid Cloud

A haka for hybrid cloud: The optimal data storage strategy for NZ enterprises

Within the APJ region, New Zealand has the highest proportion of enterprises unwilling to move their critical workloads to the public cloud.

Wed, 2nd Aug 2017

SimpliVity experiences significant success in ANZ region
Hyperconverged infrastructure

SimpliVity experiences significant success in ANZ region

SimpliVity experiences exceptional growth in Australia and New Zealand, with increased customer sales and strategic partnerships.

Thu, 3rd Mar 2016

ViFX reels in Sealord with Nutanix deal

ViFX reels in Sealord with Nutanix deal

ViFX has reeled in Sealord Group in a deal which saw the Kiwi reseller deploying Nutanix web-scale infrastructure across the company's operations.

Thu, 22nd Oct 2015

SimpliVity's OmniStack 3.0 comes to NZ
Hyperconverged infrastructure

SimpliVity's OmniStack 3.0 comes to NZ

SimpliVity brings its advanced OmniStack 3.0 Data Virtualisation to New Zealand, offering robust multi-site solutions.

Fri, 28th Aug 2015

New heads for Pure Storage APJ and ANZ channel
Storage

New heads for Pure Storage APJ and ANZ channel

Nigel Peach ascends to APJ director role at Pure Storage, with Mike Sakalas stepping in as ANZ country manager.

Mon, 2nd Feb 2015

PGG Wrightson shuns tape for disk
SAN

PGG Wrightson shuns tape for disk

PGG Wrightson has swapped tape backups for disk-to-disk, cutting backup time from 120 hours to 12, thanks to New Zealand's Revera, enhancing data protection.

Thu, 5th Nov 2009

Teradata launches on-premises AI system for hybrid use
Digital Transformation

Teradata launches on-premises AI system for hybrid use

The on-premises system aims to cut cloud costs and ease data-sovereignty concerns for firms running AI closer to sensitive data.

Today

Synology launches all-flash storage systems for enterprises
Virtualisation

Synology launches all-flash storage systems for enterprises

Synology unveils FS6420 and FS3420 all-flash storage systems to boost on-premises enterprise workloads with faster IOPS and resilient connectivity.

This month

Qualys & Converge launch cyber insurance pricing tool
Ransomware

Qualys & Converge launch cyber insurance pricing tool

Businesses may win lower premiums as live security data replaces self-reported forms in a new cyber insurance model for Qualys users.

This month

Dell launches PowerMaxOS 10.4 with faster, safer storage
Virtualisation

Dell launches PowerMaxOS 10.4 with faster, safer storage

Enterprise users can now cut response times by up to 25% while adding ransomware detection, single sign-on and migration tools.

Last month

StorMagic posts 36% growth as VMware rivals gain ground
Virtualisation

StorMagic posts 36% growth as VMware rivals gain ground

Customers seeking VMware alternatives helped drive StorMagic’s annual recurring revenue up 36% as rising hardware costs boosted demand for its software.

Last month

Hitachi Vantara names ANZ partner award winners 2025 awards
IT Industry

Hitachi Vantara names ANZ partner award winners 2025 awards

Research shown at the Gold Coast event found 56% of Australian organisations are not AI-ready, as channel partners were honoured.

Last month

Nutanix & NetApp launch virtualisation migration tie-up
Virtualisation

Nutanix & NetApp launch virtualisation migration tie-up

It could cut migration cycles from days to minutes for firms modernising virtual estates, while keeping data in place for some VM moves.

Last month

Nutanix adds AI & cloud tools amid infrastructure push
Virtualisation

Nutanix adds AI & cloud tools amid infrastructure push

Customers facing supply constraints are gaining new ways to run AI and hybrid workloads across on-premises systems, cloud and bare metal.

Last month

Nutanix targets VMware escapees with multitenant cloud push
Cloud Services

Nutanix targets VMware escapees with multitenant cloud push

The update gives providers a way to run shared cloud infrastructure for many customers while easing costly migrations away from VMware.

Last month

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