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AWS and Microsoft clash for the 2020 global public cloud revenue crown

Ingram Micro deepens Sophos partnership with Connect Flex A/NZ push

Software spend in A/NZ surged last year

Snowflake nabs Rubrik A/NZ channel manager for regional partner push

Telstra fined $50M over unconscionable sales to Indigenous customers

Alibaba touts 50% cloud growth as it lays claim to Asia Pacific leadership

Alibaba Group’s cloud computing revenue grew by 50 per cent year-on-year in the company’s 2021 fiscal year, despite losing a major customer in the March quarter.

Ingram Micro deepens Sophos partnership with Connect Flex A/NZ push

Ingram Micro has expanded its partnership with cyber security vendor Sophos in a move that will see the distributor working to recruit new MSPs to the Sophos MSP Connect Flex program.

AWS and Microsoft clash for the 2020 global public cloud revenue crown

The global public cloud services market grew 34.1 per cent to US$312 billion, in 2020, with AWS and Microsoft duking it out for number one spot.

Pure Storage ramps up rebates on subscription sales

Pure Storage has offered bigger rebates to Elite Partners in order to increase its sales of high-value subscription deals.

Microsoft set to abandon Windows 10X

Windows 10X was expected to launch in the spring of 2021 in place of the year's first-half Windows 10 feature upgrade. Didn't happen.

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Profiles

Culture, not profits: how Mantel Group built its ‘house of brands’

Founder Con Mouzouris on how Mantel Group is building its principle-backed brands across Australia and New Zealand.
Partner Spotlight: Queensland’s TechPath

The MD of the Queensland-based MSP shares how he kicked off his business at 17.
Shaped by partner-to-partner focus, VMware enhances ecosystem play

New customer lifecycle incentives span partner-to-partner accelerator, technical assessment and proof of concept initiatives
As Commvault turns on SaaS, channel plans kick into gear

Enhanced partner strategy anchored around Metallic offering

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Gallery

Channel unites as Secure Agility raises $80K during IT For A Cause

Secure Agility has raised $80,000 for children’s charities in Australia following the eighth running of the annual ‘IT For A Cause’ golf day.

Channel unites as Secure Agility raises $80K during IT For A Cause
Channel leaders reconnect at ARN Influencer Network

More than 150 executives within the Australian channel united under one roof for the first time in 12 months as ARN launched a market-leading agenda at the inaugural Influencer Network in Sydney.

Channel leaders reconnect at ARN Influencer Network
Nextgen Distribution wines and dines ARN Hall of Fame inductees

Nextgen Distribution hosted members of the ARN Hall of Fame during an evening of wine tasting and canapés at its North Sydney office on the evening of 22 October.

Nextgen Distribution wines and dines ARN Hall of Fame inductees
Meet the ARN 30 Under 30 Tech Awards 2020 winners

This year’s ARN 30 Under 30 Tech Awards were held as an integral part of the first entirely virtual Emerging Leaders forum, an annual event dedicated to identifying, educating and showcasing the Australian technology market’s rising stars. Judged by an Emerging Leaders panel, the 30 Under 30 Tech Awards 2020 recognised the outstanding achievements and business excellence of 30 talented individuals, across both young leaders and those just starting out. In this slideshow, ARN honours this year's winners and captures their thoughts about how their ideas of leadership have changed over time.

Meet the ARN 30 Under 30 Tech Awards 2020 winners

Analysis

How customers shop for a colocation provider

Colocation facilities can lift the burden of running internal data centre, but they’re not all created equal
COVID-19 upends disaster recovery planning

Post-pandemic plans for disaster recovery and business continuity will need to reflect new business realities.
How the heck did Apple make so much money last quarter?

Inside Apple's bananas Q2 2021.
Back-up lessons from OVHcloud's catastrophic fire disaster

Organisations that failed to make sure their cloud data was backed up properly learned the consequences the hard way when an OVHcloud data centre burned ...
When online suites go down, businesses need options not on the cloud

Microsoft and Google recently briefly saw online office suites go down. Before we get too reliant on the cloud for ordinary desktop work, maybe we ...
Inside the data-driven project manager: Using analytics to improve outcomes

Forward-thinking PMOs recognise need for project decisions to be supported by data
Network-as-a-service is the future, but it’s got challenges

NaaS offers flexibility, rapid provisioning, and predictable costs, but needs to resolve issue of vendor lock-in
6 reasons why customers should hand off Kubernetes to MSPs

Managed Kubernetes services have matured to the point where many enterprises are handing over the keys to their clusters. Here we identify some of the ...
How Juniper is managing the complexity of future networks

Juniper’s chief product officer Manoj Leelanivas explains the vendor's software strategies that include intent-based networking, AI, automation and the open-source SONiC network operating system.