Stories by: Trevor Clarke

Tending the cloud seeds and nurturing early signs of growth will require channel partners to adopt new business models and skill sets. But the stage is now set for a considerable channel play in the cloud. TREVOR CLARKE reports.

Queensland-based IT services provider, Data#3 (ASX:DTL), is considering moving its main office and has mulled over the possibility of more remote working, its chief revealed.

It’s been a big year for Cisco in more ways than one. Across its global operations, the networking powerhouse was, like many of its peers, hit pretty hard by the economic downturn.

The renewal of a $36 million ICT services contract between the South Australian government and Dimension Data last week, that saw the value of the deal drop by $4 million but with an increased scope, is a sign of things to come, according to the state’s CIO.

The ISP has one foot in the grave. Or at least once the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network (NBN) is rolled out, the term Internet Service Provider (ISP) may become an endangered species, according to the director of the recently-established Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES).

Partners for Nortel and Avaya are bringing on new staff and realigning their business models in preparation for the vendors’ marriage.

The Australian server market has made a dramatic recovery in the April to June period with revenues rising 87 per cent on those at the end of the first quarter, according to IDC.

Although the first quarter of 2009 was a nightmare for many server vendors, new advanced products released during the first six months of the year are helping to pick the market back up. TREVOR CLARKE reports.

More please. Mr Quigley, could you take the Communications Minister and his shadow aside and run through Communications 101 with them?

The head of Australia’s Nortel operations has flagged a mid-October deadline for decisions on its employees’ fate after Avaya emerged as the winning bidder for the embattled company’s enterprise business.]