Stories by Rimin Dutt and Hafizah Osman

The second session of the ARN and Seagate NAS Summit was held in Sydney with speakers from prominent storage vendors discussing growth and opportunity in the Big Data applications, virtualisation and Cloud markets.

Microsoft’s surprise announcement of a tablet, the Microsoft Surface, to the red hot and crowded tablet marketplace is drawing mixed reactions from technology players. Some are seeing it as its ultimate comeback, and an attempt to reclaim its lost limelight to other players such as Apple while others have only reacted with barely a shrug.

The channel would not be immune to another global financial crisis and should look to smart strategies in the face of another downturn, industry executives say.