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Telecom announces Gen-i Australia changes
Posted on 13-Mar-2013 12:47Tags News, Computing
Total staff numbers at Gen-i Australia will fall from approximately 180 to about 60 employees. In addition to redundancy costs, it is anticipated there will be other restructuring costs associated with this action. Comments (Comments)

Rugged Panasonic Toughpad tablet now runs Windows 8 Pro
Posted on 13-Mar-2013 09:51Tags News, Windows
Local Panasonic Toughbook distributor Comworth is announcing availability of the Toughpad FZ-G1, a 10.1-inch device loaded with Windows 8 Pro and an Intel Core i5 processor in a fully-rugged package. Comments (Comments)

Seagate milestone: two billion hard disk drives shipped
Posted on 13-Mar-2013 08:22Tags News, Computing
It took the storage manufacturer 29 Years to reach first billionth shipped and just four years to reach two billion drives shipped. Comments (Comments)

EMC brings the Vatican Apostolic Library into the digital age (with video)
Posted on 9-Mar-2013 08:58Tags News, Computing
EMC will support the Vatican Apostolic Library in digitising its catalogue of 80,000 historic manuscripts and 8,900 incunabula in a nine year project with 2.8 petabytes of storage planned. Comments (Comments)

Xero hires ex Googler as Chief Revenue Officer
Posted on 8-Mar-2013 13:23Tags News, SaaS
Stuart McLean moves to Xero from Google in Sydney where he has been Head of Enterprise Australia New Zealand, driving cloud applications business for products. Comments (Comments)

QNAP Turbo NAS adds enhanced support for virtual environments
Posted on 8-Mar-2013 08:30Tags News, Computing
QNAP Turbo NAS supports VMware VAAI and vSphere client plug-in, Windows Server 2012, and enhances AFP performance. Comments (Comments)

Rackspace launches OpenCenter, extending cloud operations expertise to enterprise private clouds
Posted on 7-Mar-2013 09:25Tags News, SaaS
Rackspace Hosting has announced major new features in its free and open source Rackspace Private Cloud Software, powered by OpenStack and supported by its own support services. Comments (Comments)

Trade Me to sell Treat Me
Posted on 6-Mar-2013 12:51Tags News, Web media
Trade Me intends to sell its group-buying website Treat Me via a management buy-out led by the current head of Treat Me, James MacAvoy. Comments (Comments)

Datacom opens new data centre in Hamilton
Posted on 6-Mar-2013 12:48Tags News, Computing
Datacom has opened its new data centre in Hamilton for business one month ahead of the scheduled completion date. Comments (Comments)

Oracle introduces the Oracle Database Appliance X3-2
Posted on 6-Mar-2013 11:44Tags News, Computing
Faster version of the Oracle engineered system now supports virtualization. Comments (Comments)

Opera for Android launched in beta (with video)
Posted on 6-Mar-2013 10:25Tags News, Android
Opera browser for Android is now out in a beta version, providing mobile web navigation that is sleeker and easier to use than ever. Comments (Comments)

EMC introduces flash-optimised server and storage products
Posted on 6-Mar-2013 10:18Tags News, Computing
EMC Corporation has announced the EMC Xtrem Family of Flash-optimised server and storage products and introduced a new line of EMC XtremSF PCIe-based Flash cards that accelerate application performance. Comments (Comments)

News Corporation to sell stake in New Zealand’s SKY Network Television Limited
Posted on 4-Mar-2013 13:00Tags News, Consumer Electronics
News Corporation announced that its News Limited subsidiary will divest its 44% stake in SKY Network Television Limited, New Zealand’s pre-eminent pay television broadcasting service. Comments (Comments)

Microsoft Surface is coming to New Zealand
Posted on 1-Mar-2013 07:47Tags News, Windows
Microsoft today announced New Zealand will be getting the Surface RT on Friday 15 March and Surface Pro over the coming months. Comments (Comments)

Vodafone New Zealand introduces 4G services to consumer
Posted on 28-Feb-2013 09:17Tags News, 4G
Commercial 4G from Vodafone is available now in Auckland, expanding to other areas soon, including Christchurch in May and Wellington by September 2013. Comments (Comments)

Rackspace to acquire ObjectRocket for NoSQL database as a service
Posted on 28-Feb-2013 09:01Tags News, SaaS
ObjectRocket’s platform is specifically architected to provide an easy-to-use, consistently fast and scalable MongoDB environment. The platform also offers best-in-class features, which include high availability with each instance residing on multiple redundant pieces of infrastructure, while databases are replicated and optionally exist in multiple geo-diverse data centers. Comments (Comments)

Samsung scoops GSMA Awards at Mobile World Congress 2013
Posted on 27-Feb-2013 16:46Tags News, Mobile
Samsung has won recognition from the GSM Association for the second year running in both the category of Device Manufacturer of the Year and Best Smartphone in the Global Mobile Awards Comments (Comments)

New Zealand Xero Partner Award 2012 Winners announced
Posted on 27-Feb-2013 08:47Tags News, SaaS
The Xero Partner Awards were celebrated on the evening of the Xerocon NZ 2013 conference held on Friday 22 February, which attracted 800 attendees from the accounting, bookkeeping and software development industries. Comments (Comments)

EMC introduces new Hadoop distribution Pivotal HD
Posted on 27-Feb-2013 08:38Tags News, Computing
EMC’s new Pivotal HD is an Apache Hadoop distribution that natively integrates the EMC Greenplum massively parallel processing (MPP) database technology with the Apache Hadoop framework. Comments (Comments)

Sony Xperia Tablet Z integrates TV and social
Posted on 26-Feb-2013 10:24Tags News, Android
New TV SideView app allows users to discover content, share with social network and search other apps such as Netflix, Video Unlimited. Comments (Comments)

Dimension Data to deliver cloud services to Kathmandu
Posted on 26-Feb-2013 10:11Tags News, SaaS
Adventure clothing and equipment supplier Kathmandu looks to expand its presence beyond New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. Comments (Comments)

Dell introduces multi-gigabit throughput firewall SonicWALL SuperMassive 9000 Series
Posted on 26-Feb-2013 10:08Tags News, Computing
The Dell SonicWALL SuperMassive 9000 Series blocks threats before they enter the network by looking at all traffic, regardless of port or protocol, using Dell SonicWALL’s patented Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI) technology. Comments (Comments)

Dell introduces WiGig Wireless Docking Station
Posted on 26-Feb-2013 10:04Tags News, Wi-Fi
Designed for use in offices, meeting rooms and classrooms, the Dell Wireless Dock offers quick and easy connectivity to displays, projectors, networks, speakers and other peripherals. Comments (Comments)

HP Helps Organizations Improve Security by Providing Context to Big Data
Posted on 26-Feb-2013 09:52Tags News, Computing
Organizations can automatically apply sentiment analysis and event information to their Big Data and security event platforms to gain real-time visibility into the internal and external threat landscape. Comments (Comments)

MasterCard introduces MasterPass supporting NFC, QR Codes
Posted on 26-Feb-2013 09:28Tags News, NFC
MasterPass gives consumers a better way to pay while enhancing and simplifying the physical and digital shopping experience Comments (Comments)


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