Acquisition stories
Aussie firms to splash out $5.6bn on cloud services in 2019, eyeing agility and innovation amid talent crunch.
The coming year looks set to be one of implementation where we see a lot of technologies that have been present on the fringes become mainstream.
The colocation industry has one of the lowest unemployment numbers across industries, making talent acquisition a difficult task.
This week Supermicro released its first annual report detailing the environmental impact of today's cloud-scale data centres.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer could be the game plan that Digital Realty is currently following.
IntelliHUB has acquired Mercury New Zealand's Metrix smart metering business for $270m, expanding its smart meter footprint in Australia and New Zealand.
The acquisition of Softweb Solutions adds software and artificial intelligence to Avnet's ecosystem and bolsters its IoT capabilities.
DigiCert has successfully restored trust for its Symantec security certificates after Google's automatic distrust.
There could soon be another hyperscaler on the horizon as the Ohio Tax Credit Authority has laid the bait for Google.
Accenture acquires PrimeQ, cementing its position as the top Oracle Cloud integrator in Australia and New Zealand, bolstering digital transformations.
As e-waste volumes surge past 50 million tonnes globally, businesses face pressure to improve technology asset management and embrace recycling efforts.
Gartner has positioned Proofpoint as a Leader in its 2018 Magic Quadrant for enterprise information archiving, marking its seventh consecutive year.
CyrusOne is continuing its rapid and relentless investment into Europe, with news emerging of a new facility in the Netherlands.
Xero surpasses goal of one million subscribers in New Zealand and Australia, with $1.51bn worth of transactions passing through its platform.
Schneider Electric's Anthony DeSpirito says with data centres being crucial to business profit and loss, CIOs must now be a partner in all strategic decisions.
A root cause of the breach is currently unknown, but Marriott indicated that the intruders encrypted the information before exfiltrating the data.
Iron Mountain will gain a number of data centres from the acquisition as it continues to spread throughout Asia Pacific.
Let's Play Live has acquired esports platform CyberGamer, expanding its reach in the Australian and New Zealand markets and boosting community engagement.
Apax Partners secures the win to buy Trade Me for NZD $6.45 per share after Hellman and Friedman withdraws, valuing the company at NZD $2.56 billion.
Singapore is a hot bed of innovation at the moment and Park Place Technologies is looking to capitalise on it.
