Integration and Services: News

Newvem, which sells a tool that allows users to track and optimize their use of cloud computing resources, has expanded its software's functionality to monitor not just Amazon Web Services, but now Microsoft Azure now as well.

Cloud email security and hosting vendor, SMX, has made some significant investments hiring Mark Wilson as its new Australian country manager and opening offices in Sydney and Melbourne.

Treasurer Wayne Swan's sixth budget may well be his last. But it certainly had some highlights although most analysts agree that it didn't offer a great deal to Australian economy. The following stories offer a broad-based, ICT-centric coverage of the budget.

Treasurer Wayne Swan’s 2013 Budget does not fully support the ICT sector or investment in ICT required to drive productivity and competitiveness, according to advisory firm, Grant Thornton.

Facing fierce competition in the market for cloud services, hosting provider Rackspace has pledged to help its users debug the programs they'll run on Rackspace's OpenStack platform.

Resellers are becoming more interested and involved in Cloud services, according to leading distributor, Ingram Micro which has seen a surge in the uptake of its Cloud services products.

IT&T recruitment company, Talent International launched a loyalty rewards program for its contractors at its Unleashed event in Sydney.

ICT services and solutions vendor, Dimension Data (DiData), has fully acquired privately owned Australian managed security services provider (MSSP), earthwave Corporation.

Samsung has built several different Galaxy S4 smartphones, including a U.S. version running a Snapdragon processor that requires an extra image processor to enable heavily promoted user functions such as eye-movement recognition.

Telecommunications provider, AT&T, has extended its partnership with IT, consulting and outsourcing company, Wirpo, to create machine-to-machine (M2M) development services and systems integration across all major industries.

Global IT services provider, Pactera, is setting up its first Australian Nearshore Development Centre, based in the University of Wollongong’s Innovation Campus precinct.

Specialist SAP consulting and technical services provider, Plaut IT Australia, has acquired Malaysian-based offshore service provider, Baseliner, for an undisclosed sum.

Adobe has assured its swing to the Cloud won’t impact its channel or retail relationships.

Huawei this week unveiled a high-end upgrade to its CloudEngine core switch, which debuted here at Interop a year ago.

IP and Ethernet solutions provider, Allied Telesis, has promoted Scott Penno to the newly-created position of Asia-Pacific (APAC) marketing director.

Sprint Nextel's network partner Clearwire hasn't been able to find any other big wholesale customers nor sell any of its spectrum, so selling out to Sprint is the only real option for its shareholders, the company said Monday.

As part of Avnet Technology Solutions’ global launch of Avnet Services, the Australian arm of the IT solutions distributor is gearing up to release new services around software, lifecycle and education in the next 18 months.

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.