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Hands-on review: The Samsung Galaxy S10+ and Galaxy Buds

For those of us who demand high quality performance and durability, this model will have you drooling with delight. I'll see you down at the phone shop.

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Adobe launches platform to power customer experience management

Adobe Experience Platform stitches together data from across the enterprise, enabling real-time customer profiles leveraging Adobe Sensei.

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Adobe, Microsoft and LinkedIn join forces to accelerate account-based experiences

“With these new account-based capabilities, marketing and sales teams will have increased alignment around the people and accounts they are engaging.”

Winners of 2019 Adobe Experience Maker and Marketo Revvie Awards announced

The Adobe Experience Maker Awards recognise Adobe Experience Cloud customers and partners.

How Adobe and ServiceNow aim to advance customer experience management

“Together, ServiceNow and Adobe will help enable seamless digital workflows that power the experiences customers want.”

Adobe opens up marketing opportunities with Roku

Adobe and streaming TV platform Roku are now offering Adobe customers the ability to precisely target consumer audiences moving to over-the-top content (OTT).

Adobe Summit kicks off the future of customer experience in Las Vegas

“Today, at Adobe Summit, we unveiled significant new capabilities in Adobe Experience Cloud, including the introduction of Adobe Commerce Cloud and Marketo Engage, and general availability of Adobe Experience Platform.”

Ruckus releases new switch for 100GbE edge-to-core networks

Enables multi-gigabit networks with pay-as-you-grow model suitable for education, government and enterprise environments.

‘Buy-now-pay-later’ taking consumer markets by storm

A new survey shows that young people are embracing this new method of purchasing, with over 1.5 million users in the last year in Australia alone.

Aerohive achieves ISO/IEC 27001 cloud platform certification

Aerohive is the first cloud-managed networking vendor recognized by a global standard for commitment to information security management systems.

Five things MSPs need to keep in mind in 2019

A Datto APAC channel exec outlines the most important factors for MSP to being paying attention to in the coming year.

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VMware allures APJ channel veteran to take the reins

Balasingam will take on the role of vice president for VMware’s partner business in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ).

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Better data management: Whose job is it?

An Experian executive’s practical advice on how to structure data-management roles within a modern business environment.

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Platform9 and Intersect partner to bring unified cloud to A/NZ

“For Intersect, Platform9 represents the single most strategic solution to a set of challenges we see expanding across the board."

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VMware announces new features in VMware Cloud, Dell EMC integrations

VMware announced VMware Cloud Foundation 3.7 is expected to be available on Dell EMC VxRail in VMware’s Q1FY20.

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VoiP new-comer upgraded and ready to take on NZ

UFONE is an Auckland-based VoIP provider that has just completed a massive upgrade of its back-end and is ready to take on the market.

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Aussie company set to democratise direct-to-orbit IoT access

Adelaide-based Myriota has released a developer toolkit that has been trialled and tested by a smart waste management platform.

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Vector penalised $3.5 million for excessive levels of power outages

''Given the impact electricity outages have on consumers and businesses it is crucial that lines companies have systems in place to identify and manage the risks present in their networks."

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Insider insight: How to get more from your Splunk platform

Having the right tools is only half the battle, not until you can leverage them most effectively can you see the gains that properly managed data can provide.

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Whitepaper: Making AI work for the healthcare sector

This whitepaper explains how and why AI should be focused on people in healthcare, not technology. Philips calls this approach adaptive intelligence.

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Bitdefender invests in A/NZ with new offices and regional director

Bitdefender has opened its Partner Advantage Network (PAN) programme with the aim of recruiting and supporting its over 500 local resellers.

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Apple says its new iMacs are "pretty freaking powerful"

The company has chosen the tagline “Pretty. Freaking powerful” as the tagline – and it’s not too hard to see why.

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IDC: NZ's PC market surprise growth will not last

Despite the growth witnessed at the end of 2018, IDC predicts that New Zealand’s traditional PC market in 2019 will decline by -4.4% YoY.

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Turtle Beach buys ROCCAT, bringing more 'victories to gamers'

Germany-based Roccat already has a significant presence in Europe and Asia, which means Turtle Beach will likely take advantage of that growth. Expect to see more Turtle Beach products on the shelves.

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Identity assurance - a refreshed approach to authentication

Today’s organisations should refresh their approach to authentication from a one-time event to continuous monitoring of users and what they are accessing. In broad terms, this is called identity assurance.

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Global server market maintains healthy growth in Q4 2018

New data from Gartner reveals that while there was growth in the market as a whole, some of the big vendors actually declined.

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Forrester names Crowdstrike leader in incident response

The report provides an in-depth evaluation of the top 15 IR service providers across 11 criteria.

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Google certifies Panasonic rugged devices for enterprise

The Toughbook T1 and N1 handhelds meet all requirements for Google’s rugged Android certification.

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Digital spending to hit US$1.2 trillion by 2022

A recent study by Zinnov shows that IoT spend reached US$201 billion in 2018 while outsourcing service providers generated $40 billion in revenue.

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Gartner: AI to reduce project management workload

80% of the work performed project management teams will be taken over by AI by 2030, starting this year.

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HCL and Xerox expand strategic partnership

Under the terms of the agreement, HCL will manage portions of Xerox’s shared services, including global administrative and support functions.

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Apple launches revamped iPad Air & iPad mini

Apple loves tinkering with its existing product lines and coming up with new ways to make things more powerful – and both the iPad Air and iPad mini seem to be no exception.

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Avaya expands integration with Google Cloud AI

This includes embedding Google’s machine learning within conversation services for the contact centre, enabling integration of AI capabilities.

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Zoom’s new Rooms and Meetings features

Zoom has released information about the upcoming releases for its Rooms and Meeting offerings for 2019.

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Dynatrace takes pole position in APM Magic Quadrant

It placed highest on Ability to Execute and furthest on Completeness of Vision in the 2019 Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM).

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Elegance meets functionality in Toshiba’s X-range

Desktop performance now comes in a slim, light, durable package.

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Microsoft offers Government free digital skills training

Upwards of 60 workshops will be offered, aimed at giving staff a vital grounding in cloud technologies, artificial intelligence and other skills.

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Healthcare breaches on the rise - here’s how Philips protects data

As healthcare becomes increasingly digitalised, medical institutions need to ensure the systems they are using are storing patient data in a reliable and secure way.

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Why 'right to repair' legislation could be a new lease on life for broken devices

“These companies are profiting at the expense of our environment and our pocketbooks as we become a throw-away society that discards over 6 million tonnes of electronics every year.”

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Gartner: NZ server grows at same rate as shipments decline

In New Zealand, server revenue grew by almost 50% in the 4Q18 compared to the same quarter of 2017, while shipments declined 43.3%.

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Why you should collect Docker infrastructure logs

Syslog-ng is a log management application that enables you to collect logs from multiple platforms in a central space.

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Polycom & Plantronics rebrand to Poly, a new UC powerhouse

The name change comes after last year’s Plantronics acquisition of Polycom, a deal that was worth US $2 billion.

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Online attackers abusing Kiwis' generosity in wake of Chch tragedy

It doesn’t take some people long to abuse people’s kindness and generosity in a time of mourning.

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Should you rely on Elasticsearch to simplify your logging system?

Elasticsearch allows you to store any number of arbitrary name-value pairs coming from structured logging.

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Epson FF-680W: The world's fastest WiFi photo scanner

“There was clearly a need for an ultra-fast and easy scanning solution that enabled people to digitise hard copy photos often stored in albums or boxes.”

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Worldwide spending on security to reach $103.1bil in 2019 - IDC

Managed security services will be the largest technology category in 2019.

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Whitepaper: An inside look at the benefits of cloud

"Cloud computing is revolutionising business, enabling organisations to move faster, spend less and deliver greater value."

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SIS announces a partnership with Platform 4

“We are looking forward to a strong future in the New Zealand security industry with this global giant as our strategic partner."

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IntegrationWorks continues expansion with new Brisbane office

The company’s new office space at the Riverside Centre overlooks the Brisbane River and Storey Bridge.

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NZ ISPs issue open letter to social media giants to discuss censorship

Content sharing platforms have a duty of care to proactively monitor for harmful content, act expeditiously to remove content which is flagged to them as illegal.

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Microsoft appoints new commercial and partner business director

Bowden already has almost a decade of Microsoft relationship management experience under her belt, having joined the business in 2010.

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HPE launches 'right mix' hybrid cloud assessment tool

HPE has launched an ‘industry-first assessment software’ to help businesses work out the right mix of hybrid cloud for their needs.

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Apple's AirPods now come with 'Hey Siri' functionality

The new AirPods come with a standard case or a Wireless Charging Case that holds additional charges for more than 24 hours of listening time.

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IDC: Innovative wearable use cases drive double-digit growth

Wristbands are set to lose their dominance as hearables and industrial applications keep the wearables market moving forward.

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Poly appoints new A/NZ managing director, Andy Hurt

“We’re excited to be bringing together two established pioneers in audio and video technology to be moving forward and one business – Poly."

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Microsoft Teams’ eight new and upcoming features

After taking Best in Show at Enterprise Connect, Microsoft Teams will be seeing eight new capabilities over 2019.

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NVIDIA introduces a new breed of high-performance workstations

“Data science is one of the fastest growing fields of computer science and impacts every industry."

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OutSystems and Boncode team up for better code analysis

The Boncode and OutSystems alliance aims to help organisations to build fast and feel comfortable that the work they're delivering is at peak quality levels.

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Veeam: Biggest trials for MSPs selling backup & how to overcome them

In a perfect world all businesses would happily invest enough to protect their data, but it’s not, which is why Probax released a guide.

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DXC subsidiary takes SAP energy industry partner award

Winners of the awards were selected from SAP’s A/NZpartner ecosystem and announced at the recent SAP A/NZ Partner Kick-Off Meeting held in Sydney.

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E-Book: Building applications just got simpler

When it comes to end user's expectations for applications, there seems to be no limits. Now, you live up to them without having to be a coding mastermind.