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Information security: Ensure electronic data is erased before leaving your premises
Conbrio Technology Group

Information security: Ensure electronic data is erased before leaving your premises

Upgrading or changing your IT equipment? It's crucial to ensure your data is securely destroyed from your former equipment.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 9th Sep 2016

Global Stories

Written by Ashton

Instant Data Centers, LLC officially launched to challenge the old way of doing things
Micro-modular

Instant Data Centers, LLC officially launched to challenge the old way of doing things

Instant Data Centers (IDC) launches as a budget-friendly alternative to traditional data centres, offering micro-modular solutions.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Thu, 15th Sep 2016
YOU'RE INVITED: Cloud Security Expo - Asia's first dedicated cloud security event
Cloud Security

YOU'RE INVITED: Cloud Security Expo - Asia's first dedicated cloud security event

Cloud Security Expo is Asia's first event dedicated to securing the cloud, presenting an unrivalled line up of world-class solution providers.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Thu, 15th Sep 2016
Hands-on Review: QNAP TVS-882T - all new Thunderbolt 2 NAS technology
Storage

Hands-on Review: QNAP TVS-882T - all new Thunderbolt 2 NAS technology

The new family of business-grade NAS drives from QNAP are targeting creative professionals, with lightening-fast capabilities perfect for 4K editing.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Thu, 15th Sep 2016
YOU'RE INVITED: Cloud Expo Asia – biggest cloud industry event in Asia
DataCentre infrastructure

YOU'RE INVITED: Cloud Expo Asia – biggest cloud industry event in Asia

​Cloud Expo Asia is the biggest and best attended cloud industry event in Asia - not one to be missed, regardless of where you reside.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Thu, 15th Sep 2016
YOU'RE INVITED: SingularityU New Zealand Summit - Silicon Valley is coming to town
Artificial Intelligence

YOU'RE INVITED: SingularityU New Zealand Summit - Silicon Valley is coming to town

The experts from Silicon Valley are coming to town this November to get together with leaders of today and tomorrow from New Zealand and Australia.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 15th Sep 2016
Veeam unveils complete platform to provide availability across any cloud
Virtualisation

Veeam unveils complete platform to provide availability across any cloud

Veeam recently announced their all new solution, designed in line with the needs of their increasingly digital customers.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 13th Sep 2016
Two companies collaborate to boost independent cyber security firm
Unified Communications

Two companies collaborate to boost independent cyber security firm

Intel Corporation and TPG have joined forces to establish a new independent cyber security company called McAfee.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Fri, 9th Sep 2016
Skills gap too large for organisations to fully benefit from mobile strategies
Open source

Skills gap too large for organisations to fully benefit from mobile strategies

The skills gap in the IT industry is often a hot topic, as many see skills as a major barrier to the implementation of enterprise mobile strategies.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Fri, 9th Sep 2016
Red Hat pulls the cat out with new OpenStack platform
Storage

Red Hat pulls the cat out with new OpenStack platform

The open Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform is designed to deploy, scale and manage private cloud, public cloud and NFV environments.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Fri, 9th Sep 2016
Study finds the key drivers behind growing app economy in APJ
Cybersecurity

Study finds the key drivers behind growing app economy in APJ

​CA Technologies recently announced the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) results of a global Economist Intelligence Unit survey.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Fri, 9th Sep 2016
PHOTO GALLERY: The all new iPhone and Series 2 Apple Watch
Wearables

PHOTO GALLERY: The all new iPhone and Series 2 Apple Watch

Today Apple unveiled the iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and the Apple Watch Series 2 - have a geeze at how they look.

By Ashton Young • 1 min read • Thu, 8th Sep 2016
Headphone jack be gone! iPhone launches mission to kill wires with AirPods
Digital Entertainment

Headphone jack be gone! iPhone launches mission to kill wires with AirPods

​The countless 'leaks' have been right about something - Apple's new iPhones will be without the traditional 3.5mm headphone jack - meet the AirPods.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 8th Sep 2016
The Point 2016 – an A to Z of digital disruption in payments
Fintech

The Point 2016 – an A to Z of digital disruption in payments

Find out how the payments industry is being disrupted at The Point 2016, New Zealand's only industry-wide payments conference.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 6th Sep 2016
REPORT: Simplify vendor evaluations with Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays
Storage

REPORT: Simplify vendor evaluations with Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays

This report delves into the strengths and cautions of each of the main vendors and why Pure Storage was named a leader for the third year running.

By Ashton Young • 1 min read • Mon, 5th Sep 2016
PHOTO GALLERY: Huawei Connect 2016 comes to an end - here are some highlights
Cloud Services

PHOTO GALLERY: Huawei Connect 2016 comes to an end - here are some highlights

Running for three days, the event was spread across three venues with more than 20,000 participants from across the globe.

By Ashton Young • 1 min read • Mon, 5th Sep 2016
Only 20% of enterprises on the cloud - Huawei says will be 85% by 2025
Cloud Services

Only 20% of enterprises on the cloud - Huawei says will be 85% by 2025

Huawei Connect 2016 focuses on cloud computing as president of Huawei IT Product Line announces new cloud solutions.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Fri, 2nd Sep 2016

Stories from Other Regions

Written by Ashton