Stories by: Matt Sainsbury

Distributor, TrackItOnline, has formed a new partnership with triCerat that will become an important cornerstone to its business.

HP has upgraded its ProLiant server range, with three new models set to hit the market.

A miner, a doctor, a roving technician and a soldier – what do these professions have in common? Not much. So why should those users have their notebooks pulled from a generic pool of technology? As Matthew Sainsbury discovered, the rules are different when selling notebooks at a vertical level.

From relatively humble beginnings as a shareware distributor, Manaccom founder and managing director, Ian Mackay, has built his company into a software powerhouse. He speaks to Matthew Sainsbury about starting out as an accountant, some of the challenges in running a company, and travelling Australia in a caravan.

Security vendor, Palo Alto Networks, has signed Lan 1 as its first Australian distributor.

New channel recruit at EMC, Leo Lynch, joined the vendor three months ago after a long tenure with HP. He talked to MATTHEW SAINSBURY about opportunities in storage, social responsibilities in enterprise and BlackBerry devices.

Digital Sense has unveiled an 800sqm datacentre as the first stage of what it claims to be the world's largest datacentre complex in Brisbane.

Software vendor, Autodesk, will appoint a second distributor by the end of the year to accompany Scholastic.

Dataweave has appointed three new employees as part of plans to put on 12 staff in its new Melbourne office over the next year.

Open source vendor, Red Hat, is ramping up its education efforts to tackle a lack of understanding on how to adopt open source solutions.