Stories by: Jennifer O'Brien

Bridging between traditional analogue CCTV and IP security surveillance systems is becoming a crucial ingredient for local businesses as convergence takes hold.

Blade server adoption is hitting the main straight. The big boys are now setting their sights on a new market: SMB.

While consumers are the fastest notebook adopters today, the introduction of feature-rich and easy-to-manage machines are giving commercial users more persuasive reasons go to mobile.

NetApp's local boss plans to oust EMC from the number one storage spot as it continues to see robust growth and fine-tunes its channel strategy.

HP is giving all resellers access to its Presario range via its notebook distributors, Ingram Micro, Dicker Data, Synnex and Cellnet. Previously, a limited Presario range was only available to resellers through Ingram Micro and Dicker Data.

Customers are starting to embrace the value proposition associated with adopting storage virtualisation. Reduced costs and simplified management are some juicy benefits.

Ask Kingston Technology's CEO, John Tu, what the pivotal moment in his company's history was and he'll tell you it was the day it went bankrupt. From this financial disaster, the company rose to become a multibillion dollar computer hardware manufacturer.

Symantec has unveiled a new backup and data recovery product in a bid to capture a growing chunk of the SMB pie.

Accelerating applications across the network and keeping branch office costs low is getting a lot of attention from networking vendors and corporates. And it's going to be resellers with know-how in infrastructure, applications delivery and security who can offer the most in optimising network performance.

The age of more collaborative communications and Web access is also having an impact on how businesses tackle their printing and copying needs. JENNIFER O'BRIEN takes a look into the latest print management solutions and how resellers can make the most of the opportunity.

While vendors are trumpeting the UC message, it's the systems integrators who are helping customers get a grasp on the benefits of converged networks. Local players chat about their impressions of VoIP and the consolidated communications push.