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Kiwi Stories

Infrastructure stories

Civil Contractors New Zealand elects first female president

Bailey Gair's election signals a shift in New Zealand's civil construction sector, as sustainability and climate resilience rise up the agenda.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Wed, 10th Aug 2022

Digital Transformation

Call for a national building products catalogue

A central registry could help builders and councils find trusted product data more easily, cutting costly non-compliance in construction.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Fri, 5th Aug 2022

Risk & Compliance

How will New Zealand cope with the effects of climate change?

Experts say the government’s adaptation plan may leave councils and vulnerable communities exposed to worsening floods, heat and sea-level rise.

By Staff Writer • 4 min read • Wed, 3rd Aug 2022

Unified Communications

IBM NZ sees significant revenue increase in latest report

IBM NZ reports FY2021 revenue of $172.4m, a YoY increase of $47.5m, with gross profit at $65.2m and profit from continuing operations at $27.2m.

By Zach Thompson • 3 min read • Mon, 1st Aug 2022

Supply Chain

Why over half of construction professionals lack confidence in the future

Skills shortages, cost pressures and red tape are leaving New Zealand contractors wary as vital infrastructure projects come under strain.

By Staff Writer • 6 min read • Mon, 1st Aug 2022

Customer Experience

Tranxactor Group to build customer loyalty with Oracle

Tranxactor selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to offer immersive customer engagement and loyalty programs to brands.

By Zach Thompson • 3 min read • Thu, 28th Jul 2022

Endpoint Protection

Vodafone's Mobile Virtual Network Operator open for business

Vodafone NZ opens its Mobile Virtual Network Operator platform, with My Republic as its first partner. More consumer choice expected.

By Zach Thompson • 3 min read • Wed, 27th Jul 2022

Global Stories

Infrastructure stories

DataCentre infrastructure

New Zealand cloud provider challenges Google's claims on data control for region

A Wellington cloud services provider says Google's claim it will offer New Zealanders complete control over their own data is not true.

By Phil Pennington • 5 min read • Fri, 12th Aug 2022

Unified Communications

Organisations exposing highly sensitive protocols to public internet

More than 60% of organisations expose remote control protocol SSH to the public internet, while 36% of organisations expose the insecure FTP protocol.

By Shannon Williams • 7 min read • Thu, 11th Aug 2022

Platform-as-a-Service

IBM expands Power10 server line for business modernisation

IBM has recently announced a significant expansion of its Power10 server line with the introduction of mid-range and scale-out systems.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Wed, 10th Aug 2022

Disaster Recovery

Gartner positions Commvault as Leader in 2022 Magic Quadrant

Gartner has named Commvault a Leader in its 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions report.

By Zach Thompson • 3 min read • Mon, 8th Aug 2022

Hyperscale

Macquarie Asset Management acquires stake in ST Telemedias VIRTUS Data Centres

Macquarie Asset Management has acquired a significant minority stake in data centre provider VIRTUS Data Centres.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Wed, 3rd Aug 2022

EduTech

Gartner anticipates RPA software revenue of US$2.9 billion

Gartner predicts global robotic process automation (RPA) software revenue to reach US$2.9 billion in 2022, an increase of 19.5% from 2021.

By Zach Thompson • 3 min read • Wed, 3rd Aug 2022

Digital Transformation

Yubico appoints Selina Goh & Derix Suartyo as ASEAN regional sales director & ASEAN solutions engineering lead

Yubico hires Selina Goh and Derix Suartyo in roles to support strategic growth in APAC; both bring extensive experience in cybersecurity and IT infrastructure.

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Fri, 29th Jul 2022

Cloud Security

Snyk launches cloud security solution for DevSecOps teams

Snyk unveils Snyk Cloud, a comprehensive cloud security solution designed by and for developers, following the acquisition of Fugue.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Fri, 29th Jul 2022

DataCentre infrastructure

Microsoft and Oracle extend partnership with OCI functionality

With this new offering, Microsoft Azure customers can provision, access and monitor enterprise-grade Oracle Database services in OCI.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Mon, 25th Jul 2022

Data Analytics

SoftIron joins Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance

SoftIron has joined the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA), a platform designed to help the digital sector reduce its environmental impact.

By Zach Thompson • 3 min read • Mon, 25th Jul 2022