Microsoft’s move to simplify its Open License program and how it affects you

Created 20 years ago, The Microsoft Open License program was designed for small and midsized customers to buy multiple perpetual software licenses at a volume price. In a recent announcement, Microsoft is transforming its commerce platform to benefit both customers and partners alike.

AI is growing up – four key trends transforming its use in business

Artificial intelligence has come a long way in the last few years, making meaningful contributions to automating mundane and time-consuming tasks and generating insights for data-driven decision making.

APEC countries make sluggish progress on digital trade and regulations

With APEC member countries representing 2.8 billion citizens and accounting for nearly 75% of New Zealand exports, the multilateral institution is an important club for us to belong to.

The hybrid dilemma – navigating Delta and the great work reshuffle

When you are the biggest software company in the world, employing 180,000 employees and touting a product line-up of hybrid working tools, the pandemic is a perfect opportunity to eat your own dog food.

Fortinet’s plan to train one million cybersecurity workers

Cybersecurity specialist Fortinet has pledged to train one million people in five years in a bid to help meet a global cybersecurity skills gap.

Government IT, financial services the highlights in post-pandemic IT spending

When it came to the digital transformation required for society and the economy to function through the Covid-19 pandemic, we went ‘hard and early’ in our part of the world, to borrow the Prime Minister’s phrase.

Legacy tech is dragging down our mid-sized businesses – Forrester

We’ve heard it so many times over the course of the last 18 months - the pandemic has sparked a wave of digital transformation in businesses, the likes of which we’ve never seen before.

Technology can help us tackle the seemingly insurmountable climate challenge – here’s how

It should serve as the global wake-up call we need, a meticulously researched report from the world’s top climate scientists that suggests the world is driving towards a cliff with our foot planted firmly on the accelerator.

The Kiwi tech consulting company extending Power BI’s reach

Organisations all over the world are now using Microsoft’s popular business analytics service, Power BI. 

Big Tech just got much bigger – what to learn from their record profits

Mobile Mentor wins Microsoft Partner Award for its Zero-touch provisioning

Mobile Mentor beat out dozens of entries from around the world to win the end-point management category at last week’s Microsoft Partner Awards.

Microsoft’s Cloud PC and other big news from Inspire 2021 – what it all means for partners

Microsoft always likes to have something big and exciting to wow its partners and it was no different at Inspire 2021 as the software giant revealed an intriguing twist on its flagship operating system, Windows.

Who is Samantha Borg? Strategic Channel Manager NZ at Datto

As the Strategic Channel Manager for New Zealand, Samantha's core responsibility is to drive awareness and adoption of the Datto toolkit across the New Zealand Managed Service Provider (MSP) community. Samantha shares with us her career journey to date, her current reading list and that all-important dinner party guest list.

Open banking is coming – what it means for data-driven businesses

A move by the Government to mandate a Consumer Data Right could make switching providers easier and spur innovation in delivering data-driven services.

Make data work for you in the ‘age of insight’ – HPE Discover 2021

The pandemic, more than anything else in recent years, has confirmed that data can inform better decision making, often with life-saving results.

Windows 11 revealed – 5 things you need to know about the new operating system

ANALYSIS: With Windows 11, Microsoft is aiming for a sleeker, less-intrusive operating system that throws the door open to mobile app developers seeking access to the world’s most popular operating system.

Who is Nadia Phillips? Women in ICT Awards finalist

Finalist in the Reseller News Women in ICT Awards and Head of Partner Success at Umbrellar, Nadia Phillips, discusses her journey into the IT industry, battling the glass ceiling and the influence a few kind words can have.

Women in Tech Panel: Sarah Webb, Amelia Gain, Alliv Samson

In this episode Paul Spain is joined by three outstanding leaders – Sarah Webb: COO at LawVu, Amelia Gain: CEO & Co-Founder at Preno and Alliv Samson: Co-Founder at Kami. Each has a natural affiliation to tech and have garnered years of experience in tech and leadership. We discuss their challenges in leading and establishing a startup, hiring and diversity, business confidence and inspiring more representation for women to be encouraged to enter and to lead in business and tech.

Who is Craig Murphy? Channel Lead at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Responsible for the channel business for HPE in New Zealand, Craig enjoys a great deal of variety in his role with the management of his team, fine tuning partner processes and building on those partner relationships. Craig reveals his productivity hacks, questionable golfing skills and his outlook on the next 12 months.

App modernisation: Everyone is doing it but how do you do it well?

Every organisation has its own unique story of digital transformation undertaken in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic.

How to rely less on sales unicorns and get more rigour into your sales processes

Techweek 21: While traditional marketing channels are reopening, Kiwi tech companies’ over-reliance on star salespeople needs to give way to a more systematic approach.

Who is Derek Wilson? Get to know Red Hat’s New Zealand Country Manager

Taking time out of his busy schedule, Derek Wilson talks about the lessons learned in 2020, work-life balance and scrumptious New Zealand-inspired dishes.

IBM banks on hybrid cloud and AI to get it back into growth mode

IBM’s Think 2021 virtual event this week was dominated by talk of artificial intelligence as a key tool of digital transformation and the company’s efforts to position itself as the lead player in hybrid cloud offerings.

The deluge of Covid-related data and the AI helping doctors make sense of it

Last February, as the world woke up to the fact it was dealing with a deadly pandemic, something else was starting to go viral - misinformation.

11 questions with Nathan Steiner, Head of System’s Engineering ANZ at Veeam Software

Get to know the man behind world class technical teams at Veeam Software. Head of System’s Engineering ANZ Nathan Steiner talks marriage, work/life balance and Kenny Rogers’ Greatest Hits.

Using Microsoft 365 in the public sector – what every CIO and information manager needs to know

If you want to live in a fair and just democracy, you need to be able to examine how decisions are made by the public agencies that represent our interests.

The benefits of adopting a scalable workforce

As business’s scale to meet the evolving needs and demands of their customers, a number of challenges – and opportunities arise when tackling the operational growing pains associated with expansion.

Processing Data at the Edge of the Edge: Reimagining Possibilities

How well do you know your organisation’s edge? Better yet, how far away is your data from it?

How to… 5 steps to avoid your web applications getting hacked

2021 has gotten off to an ominous start on the cybersecurity front, with a continuation of the more sophisticated hacking attacks that culminated in December with revelations about the major SolarWinds exploit.

What’s an application modernisation strategy which is best for your organisation

Innovation-hungry businesses should look “up” rather than back.