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  Google and Microsoft tackle triple value play at Synnex Alliance 2018

  This Synnex Alliance roadshow, in association with Google and Microsoft, started with the end-user and worked back to define the notion of value, outlining the lucrative partner opportunities ahead in 2018.

  Google and Microsoft tackle triple value play at Synnex Alliance 2018
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  Meet the top performing Aussie Microsoft partners

  Microsoft unveiled the winners of its latest local awards on 14 November during its annual Microsoft Summit event in Sydney, naming Advance Computing, GIS People, Insync, Avanade, Cloud Collective and Single Cell among the Microsoft Australia Partner Awards winners for 2017.

  Meet the top performing Aussie Microsoft partners
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  Dicker Data delves deep into digital transformation as TechX 2017 unlocks IoT opportunities

  Dicker Data welcomed over 1,000 partners to TechX 2017 in Sydney, with leading vendors - Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Dell EMC, Lenovo and Hewlett Packard Enterprise - outlining the future opportunities around digital transformation and the Internet of Things. Photos by Maria Stefina.

  Dicker Data delves deep into digital transformation as TechX 2017 unlocks IoT opportunities
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  Examining the changing job scene in the Aussie channel

  Typically, the New Year brings new opportunities for personnel within the Australian channel. 2017 started no differently, with a host of appointments, departures and reshuffles across vendor, distributor and reseller businesses. As a result, the job scene across Australia has changed - here’s a run down of who is working where in the year ahead…

  Examining the changing job scene in the Aussie channel
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  ​Top 15 Aussie tech storylines to follow in 2017

  The New Year brings the usual new round of humdrum technology predictions, glaringly general, unashamedly safe and perpetually predictable. But while the industry no longer sees value in “cloud is now the norm” type projections, value can be found in following developments of the year previous, analysing behaviours and patterns to formulate a plan for the 12 months ahead. Consequently, here’s the top tech storylines to follow in Australia during 2017.

  ​Top 15 Aussie tech storylines to follow in 2017
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  Top 50 defining moments of the Australian channel in 2016

  ARN looks back on a tumultuous 12 months for the Australian channel, assessing the fallout from a year of sizeable industry change. Whether it be local or global mergers and acquisitions, public splits or job changes, the channel that started the year differs somewhat to the one set to finish it - ARN assesses the key moments that made 2016.

  Top 50 defining moments of the Australian channel in 2016

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News about Microsoft

• Dominant AWS reminds cloud market who’s boss

  Tech giant comfortably ahead of competition in all four of the world’s major regions

• Microsoft appoints new One Commercial Partner go-to-market lead

  Internal transition takes place effective 1 August

• Microsoft ramps up AI play with Bonsai buy

  Acquisition comes amid a string of recent acquisitions for the software giant

• Opinion: Is Microsoft already killing off Windows 7?

  It sure looks like it’s regretting promising 18 more months of support for Windows 10’s biggest competitor

• GitHub’s new schools program sees Microsoft deepen its education play

  The bundled GitHub Education suite includes access to GitHub, along with a growing collection of developer tools

• Frederic Viet returns to Australia as AWS strategic partner lead

  Move sees Viet return to Australia from France

Interviews about Microsoft

• Google gunning for Aussie channel as Melbourne cloud partner signs up

  Tech giant fires warning shots at AWS and Microsoft Azure as cloud channel war heats up in Australia

• ​The Yield - Inside the mind of Mother Nature

  As organisations begin to experiment with intelligent apps, The Yield founder and CEO, Ros Harvey, explains how the Australian start-up is racing ahead in agriculture.

• ​Inside AtlasPlato, Australia’s newest BI-focused start-up

  Andrew Thomas returns to tap into a surge in big data analytics spending across Australia.

• ​How Datacom cracked a billion dollars

  Reseller News examines the books of New Zealand’s largest IT services provider.

• SixPivot - ​Finding the ISV sweet spot

  As the industry edges towards cloud, ARN uncovers an emerging Brisbane business playing a pivotal role in enabling channel success.

• ​KPMG - An enterprise approach to education

  “Education establishments are now asking - how can we keep a customer for life?”

Features about Microsoft

• How your web browser tells you when it's safe

  As Google moves to change how its Chrome browser flags insecure websites, rival browsers may be forced to follow suit. Here's how other browsers currently ...

• Microsoft boosts anti-phishing skills of Chrome, the IE and Edge killer

  The company has released an add-on for Chrome – dubbed 'Windows Defender Browser Protection' – that effectively gives up a major asset in its own ...

• Windows 10 Spring Creators Update: The best hidden features

  Many are promising but remain works in progress.

• Cross-cloud software development comes to Azure

  Cloud-native apps built on Kubernetes can run anywhere. Now, with Open Service Broker, they can also use services hosted in public clouds such as Azure

• PowerApps: The route to apps for the rest of your employees

  PowerApps gives you a platform for quickly building mobile applications for service workers that work cross-platform and that integrate with existing back ends

• How to write machine learning apps for Windows 10

  Machine learning isn’t only for the cloud. Microsoft is bringing it to PCs in the next Windows 10 release. Here’s how to get started now