Global Stories

Evolving Cisco and IBM driving data center revenues

Successful customer transformations proved beneficial for the data center hardware market, leading to positive revenue results for 3Q15.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Thu, 11th Feb 2016

Malware

Your network is being attacked: How can you best manage it?

Ever-expanding connectivity and digitisation is transforming our world - but it's also creating more opportunities for cyber criminals.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 4th Feb 2016

Firewalls

If opportunity makes a thief, what stops one?

Cisco's Marc Solomon outlines the questions security professionals should ask when evaluating next-gen firewalls.

By Staff Writer • 4 min read • Mon, 25th Jan 2016

Supply Chain

Cisco NZ: Security 'god-box' does not exist, but there are solutions

Companies of all sizes – and resellers – need to stop looking for a 'god-box' that will solve all their security problems. So what's the solution?.

By Heather Wright • 4 min read • Wed, 20th Jan 2016

Unified Communications

Millennials give CIOs wake-up call: Now's the time to invest in collaboration

Millennials march into the workforce, pressuring CIOs to embrace unified communication tech for a modern, collaborative era.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 14th Jan 2016

Network Infrastructure

VCE, Cisco partner for more secure data centres; less complex SDN

VCE and Cisco have teamed up to help create more secure data centres and take the complexity out of deploying SDN.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Thu, 17th Dec 2015

Partner Programmes

'Largest data migration in Queensland's history' complete

Interactive has taken Flight Centre on 'the largest data migration in Queensland history' as part of a new outsourcing deal.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 16th Dec 2015

Virtualisation

Enterprise SDN a $10b industry

Software-centric vendors such as VMware and vendors of industry-standard hardware such as Dell, can gain share from industry incumbents such as Cisco.

By Shannon Williams • 2 min read • Mon, 14th Dec 2015

Firewalls

Save your customers' money AND make more margin using Aspen Optics

Connector Systems and Aspen Optics are offering resellers the chance to help customers' stretch their network expansion budgets further.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 2nd Dec 2015

Unified Communications

Cisco announces $700 million acquisition

The acquisition will accelerate Cisco's collaboration strategy to deliver video everywhere, across every endpoint, every screen, to every user.

By Shannon Williams • 2 min read • Tue, 24th Nov 2015

Cisco

Cisco Australia employees give kids tech boost

Cisco Australia employees are involved in STEM tutoring to tackle the skills shortage and boost innovation, according to the company's AUSTEM2020 initiative.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Wed, 18th Nov 2015

Cisco

New billion dollar Cisco-Ericsson partnership 'aggressive' move

A new partnership between Cisco and Ericsson to create 'the networks of the future' has been dubbed an 'aggressive move' - but one with big rewards.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Wed, 11th Nov 2015

Cybersecurity

Cisco bulks up Security Everywhere

Cisco is bulking up its Security Everywhere offerings in a move it says creates new profitable business opportunities for partners.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Mon, 9th Nov 2015

Cisco

Data#3 scores multimillion dollar Edith Cowan University deal

Data#3 has signed a multi-million dollar deal with Edith Cowan University, which will see ECU moving to the latest Cisco communications offerings.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Mon, 2nd Nov 2015

Network Infrastructure

Converged infrastructure set to dominate in Q4

Converged infrastructure is the server infrastructure of choice for many in Q4, with VCE Vblock leading in adoption and Cisco prevalent.

By Heather Wright • 3 min read • Mon, 19th Oct 2015

Internet of Things

Exclusive: Resellers must 'stretch and evolve' to win big in IoE

The internet of everything offers 'tremendous' opportunity for the reseller channel - but it may require some stretching and evolving says one expert.

By Heather Wright • 4 min read • Fri, 16th Oct 2015