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Cisco fills newly created role of vice president for Middle East & Africa

Tue, 1st Aug 2017
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Cisco's David Meads expands his role to become vice president for the Middle East and Africa as digital adoption accelerates in the regions.
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Darktrace continues push in South Africa after signing on major clients

Mon, 31st Jul 2017
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Darktrace is continuing its journey into the South African cybersecurity market, celebrating an 'exponential' increase in total contract value.
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Visa expands global presence with not one, but TWO new data centres

Thu, 27th Jul 2017
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​Visa has announced expanded transaction processing capabilities in two new data centres – one in Singapore and one in the United Kingdom.
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Partners Group acquires Civica for not to be sneezed at £1 million

Wed, 26th Jul 2017
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Private equity giant Partners Group snaps up Civica for a hefty £1 billion, bolstering public sector services globally.
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'Most technologically advanced stadia ever built' - Tottenham partners with HPE

Tue, 25th Jul 2017
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been singled out as a key partner in forming one of the most technologically advanced stadia ever built.
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Local SMEs are the most vulnerable to ransomware attacks: Turrito Networks

Thu, 20th Jul 2017
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Turrito Networks warns that small and medium-sized businesses in South Africa are most susceptible to ransomware attacks.
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New deal seeks to make China more accessible for AU businesses - and vice versa

Thu, 20th Jul 2017
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Australian Trade and Investment Commission teams up with Commonwealth Bank to boost business ties with Hong Kong and China.
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iPaaS startup secures $10 million in funding from Storm Ventures & Salesforce

Wed, 19th Jul 2017
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Workato clinches $10M to propel digital transformation with its iPaaS platform, backed by Storm Ventures and Salesforce.
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SAP reshuffles top local roles in face of strong cloud and digital innovation system demand

Fri, 7th Jul 2017
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SAP has reshuffled its top local roles, with a new ANZ president and MD and a new executive director as it pushes cloud and digital innovation.
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Google, NetApp, Intuit...The best company to work for in India revealed

Thu, 6th Jul 2017
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Intuit India takes the top spot in the Economic Times' list of the best 100 companies to work for in India. #bestcompanies #India.
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Zadara Storage launches third Europe AWS region, headquartered in London

Fri, 30th Jun 2017
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Zadara Storage expands its Storage as a Service platform in Europe, launching a new AWS region in London to meet growing demand, in partnership with Equinix.
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Cisco tackles 'previously unsolvable' challenges with network of the future

Thu, 22nd Jun 2017
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Cisco is gaining ground in artificial intelligence for its networking & security solutions, touting it as 'one of the most significant breakthroughs'.
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Case Study: How Volta and Next Connex's partnership has progressed one year on

Fri, 16th Jun 2017
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In January 2016, Volta and Next Connex entered a partnership- now the companies have released a case study on how things have progressed.
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Best of the best: Award winners of 10th Datacloud Europe announced

Tue, 13th Jun 2017
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BroadGroup recently announced the winners of this year's Datacloud Awards, highlighting innovation, inspiration and excellence in data centre & cloud.
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CrowdStrike raises $100m in massive funding round backed by Accel & Telstra

Tue, 30th May 2017
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Endpoint security provider CrowdStrike has completed a $100m Series D funding round to support global growth and meet demand for its products.
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Micron21 seeks security professionals for cyber terrorism challenge

Tue, 23rd May 2017
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Micron21 has put forth a 'cyber terrorism' challenge to see if anyone can breach their security with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
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Startup RedLock emerges from stealth with public cloud security offerings

Wed, 10th May 2017
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Channel focused security startup RedLock has emerged from stealth with a platform which automates protection across multiple public cloud vendors.
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Is your healthcare data safe? Here are three ways to protect it

Tue, 2nd May 2017
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Healthcare providers and healthcare systems have some of the most valuable information not only for patient health, but also for cyber attackers.
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New company emerges from CSC and HPE Enterprise Services merger

Tue, 4th Apr 2017
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DXC Technology is a new organisation that has been created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of HPE.
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The week in channel-land: Partner awards, parties and plenty of business too

Fri, 31st Mar 2017
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Channelland buzzes with partner accolades, bustling business deals, and spirited shindigs—a rollicking week of tech tales!.