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Avnet has appointed its first chief information security officer to ensure its information assets, and those of partners and customers, are protected.

Dell intensifies its data centre strategy by forming the Extreme Scale Infrastructure unit, led by ex-HP exec James Mouton.

NTT Communications has opened a four story, US$32 million Bangkok data center, boasting 3800 square meters of server room.

Huawei's cloud fabric data center network solution has been put to work to build a new virtualised multi-tenant cloud data center for Abraxas.

Government tees up digital marketplace to enable more ICT suppliers to nab some of the $5b annual government ICT spend and a cyber security centre.

Smart commercial buildings will be a driving force in the uptake of internet of things, Gartner says, opening the doors for resellers to capitalise.

HPE launches solution for managing cloud chaos, offering streamlined control over diverse cloud environments beginning 2016.

NextDC has added a support for IBM's Direct Link, with a direct network connection to the IBM cloud via its Melbourne M1 data centre.

IBM has teamed up with data centre efficiency vendor Xilinx in a collaboration aimed at accelerating data centre applications.

UK company debuts a micro data center which it says eliminates the need for bespoke data center designs - just add servers.

A US company has launched an energy efficient waterborne data centre prototype, with construction of the first commercial offering now underway.

HPE is partnering up with Microsoft, with Azure becoming HPE's 'preferred cloud alternative', helping fill the void left by Helion Public Cloud.

NextDC has announced the finalists for its inaugural partner awards, with M2, Tech Mahindra, Blue Central, Telstra and Brennan IT among the nominees.

Haphazard privileged account management is exposing businesses to serious risk according to a new survey from Dell.

An analyst firm has hit back at 'unrealistic predictions' about IoT uptake, saying it could be detrimental to businesses to believe 'false promises'.

Consumer confidence is high leading into Christmas trading, with spending expected to be up on last year, but tech isn't top of Santa's list.

Blue Coat Systems is acquiring cloud security company Elastica for US$280 million in a move designed to strenghten the security vendor's cloud play.

A US private equity firm has taken a major stake in Kiwi global payment solutions provider Transaction Services Group, which includes Debitsuccess.

ESET has debuted a new range of secure USB drives to aimed at preventing malware from spreading via portable drives.

Sophos' latest offering synchronises real time threat information between endpoints and the network firewall or UTM to provide faster threat detection.