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The data center colocation market is forecast to more than double by 2020 as companies turn to modular data center infrastructure and virtualisation.

Riverbed appoints Keith Buckley as regional VP for Australia and New Zealand, focusing on expanding business and promoting hybrid IT.

The worldwide smartphone market finished 2015 on a high, with a strong holiday quarter boosting volumes to record levels.

Dimension Data has inked a deal which will see SAP’s Hybris digital commerce solution available for the first time in APAC as a SaaS service.

The PC market continued its downward trajectory in 2015, with mobiles, tablets and Windows 10 contributing to the decline.

ANZ is expected to record a small increase in IT services growth next year, with the overall APeJ IT services spend forecast to grow 6.5%.

Asia Pacific accounts for more than 40% of the global IoT spend of $698.6 billion in 2015, with insurance telematics leading the way according to IDC.

Red Hat has taken its training virtual with its latest program for channel partners and customers offering real-time training, online.

Hydro Tasmania has extended its partnership with CGI for an additional two years, in a deal the will see CGI continue to provide IT services.

Data#3 has scooped up a prestigious APAC channel award, winning the Canderfero cloud software category at the recent APAC Canalys Channels Forum.

Continued ‘solid’ growth in Australia has helped Ingram Micro’s Asia Pacific operations to a strong performance for Q3.

Ingram Micro says it grew its global cloud business by more than 100% year on year in Q3, with the Asia Pacific business remaining strong.

Alcatel-Lucent is eyeing up a bigger chunk of the NZ outsourced network operations market after signing a new deal with Chorus and opening a Kiwi NOC.

'Unprecedented' expansion has seen UltraServe more than double its contracted base of customers in the past year, adding 15 new staff along the way.

Hesitant consumers are prompting a 1% drop in global device shipments, with only mobile phones bucking the trend, Gartner reports.

Apple's latest launch has ensured the company's success for another year, but Apple's competitive edge is 'dangerously fading away' says analyst.

IDC says that despite Apple’s continued success with its variants of the iPhone, it will be challenged to take Android share.

eDMs don’t work. They invade people’s inboxes. They can get labelled as spam. They’re more expensive and less effective than editorial integration.

Mobile payments are poised for explosive growth in Asia Pacific, driven by a high number of initiatives and diverse mCommerce maturity levels.

Security and privacy concerns for IoT and changes on the wearables front as functionality, design and non-intrusiveness come to the fore.