Acquisition stories
The number of cellular connected IoT/M2M devices is set to increase from 252 million in 2014 to 908 million in 2019, with wearables driving the growth.
Vocus, WxC's current provider of IP transit (according to the ISP map) will lose out as WxC will have their transit agreements migrated to Vodafone.
Motorola Solutions' Smart Public Safety Solutions and Wynyard Group's analytics software will help public safety quickly gain actionable intelligence.
Microsoft bolsters System Centre and OMS application management across hetrogenous OS' and multiple environments with BlueStripe acquisition.
Cisco is looking to move the company into its next phase of growth, and has revealed the executive leadership team that will action this.
IBM has acquired Blue Box, an OpenStack private cloud specialist, while Cisco has snapped up Piston Cloud Computing in OpenStack battle.
Competition among fixed-line retailers remains strong & the sector is responding positively to consumer demand for better broadband quality and value.
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has completed its acquisition of Pentaho, a data integration, visualisation and analytics company.
Intel's US$16.7 billion acquisition of Altera opens doors to new classes of product in data centre and IoT market segments.
Legacy IT systems, stretched IT budgets and a lack of critical IT skills are just some of issues that are inhibiting government CIOs.
Server shipments record strongest growth in four years on back of cloud demand; massive revenue boost for mainframes – and Lenovo.
UXC Eclipse's investment in Microsoft Dynamics is paying dividends, with the company inking $20 million of retail business in the past four months.
With the launch of Spark's app store last week, the drive for ISPs/telcos to find new sources of revenue was once again on display.
Check Point Software introduces new security gateway for Industrial Control Systems; aims to prevent cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.
Gartner predicts worldwide spending on business process management (BPM) software will grow 4.4% to reach $2.7 billion in 2015.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is seeking industry feedback the potential impact of TPG's proposed acquisition of iiNet.
GeoOp, the workforce management app, widened its annual loss as it invests in product development and adding new customers.
Dicker Data to launch its inaugural national roadshow, spotlighting new vendor integrations post-Express Data buyout.
The government has given up on trying to claw back $3.9 million in research and development grants paid to failed touchscreen developer NextWindow.
Deloitte bolsters its Oracle expertise, buying Dataweave to meet soaring cloud transition demand in Australia.
