Integration and Services: News

ICT solutions vendor, Huawei Australia, has presented a cheque for $50,000 to Tour De Cure, supporting the cause for the third consecutive year.

Business intelligence vendor, QlikTech, has opened a new office in Perth, in an attempt at strengthening its Australian presence.

Service level agreements in the cloud computing market are skewed in the favor of providers, can be difficult for customers to decipher and in some cases are rigid and non-negotiable. Those are some of the findings from the Cloud Standards Customer Council, a user advocacy group that recently reviewed SLAs from some of the industry’s largest providers.

UXC Limited will be continuing on its path to consolidate its offices around the country after officially launching its new Canberra office.

Citrix has unveiled an enhanced Citrix Solution Advisor (CSA) program, as well as its new Citrix SaaS Advisor (CSSA) program.

Data#3 has expanded on its 20 year relationship with the Queensland Government through being reappointed as a panel supplier of computer hardware and services.

Global IT solutions distributor, Avnet Technology Solutions, has announced Avnet Services, a new global business model designed to create greater alignment and increase operational efficiencies worldwide.

New Zealand-based IT services company, Fronde, has acquired Australian-based Cloud design and integration company, OnlineOne, for an undisclosed sum.

The Cloud is an increasingly viable (and inexpensive) storage and backup option for small businesses. Here are 10 services worth a look - and, possibility, your data.

Dish Network chairman Charlie Ergen said Wednesday that his is an American company, and the modernization of Sprint Nextel's network will have to be done from the U.S. with operations control in the country, and English speaking staff.

Open source database provider 10gen is expanding into storage services, offering a hosted backup service for its flagship MongoDB data store.

ICT solutions and services provider, NEC, has appointed Tasso Mangos as its chief technology officer (CTO).

Softbank's CEO, in a battle with Dish Network to acquire U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel, slammed a US$25.5 billion offer made by Dish, saying it is based on "imaginary" numbers and would create a company with "insane" amounts of debt.

Intel has backed SoftBank's bid for Sprint Nextel, citing that the deal would bring needed competition in the wireless space in the U.S.

Communications integrator, Orange Business Services, has launched its ‘Business Together as a Service’ (BTaaS for this article) product in Australia as part of a global expansion.

Charles W. Berger is the beleaguered company's new president and CEO.

Samsung is making an aggressive sales push in the U.S. market by expanding into thousands of third-party retail outlets where dedicated staff will sell and provide advice on the company's smartphones, tablets and entertainment products.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features, as it looks to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud.

About three years ago Embotics jumped into developing support in its private cloud management platform for Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, hopeful that the VMware virtualization challenger would take off. When that takeoff initially stalled, Embotics curtailed its Hyper-V work to focus resources elsewhere.

CA Technologies’ recently appointed CEO, Michael Gregoire, has vowed to make the company an innovator in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market and has asked his customers to upgrade to the latest releases in order to make the transition as smooth as possible.