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There are big benefits in providing enhanced hosting and cloud services according to a new report, which found customers willing to pay 30% premiums.

Alcatel Lucent Enterprise has introduced a business partner onboarding program for its Rainbow cloud collaboration service.

Adobe has appointed former Experian ANZ managing director Suzanne Steele as its new ANZ managing director, following the departure of Chris Skelton.

Dicker Data, Ingram Micro, Matrix CNI, Thomas Duryea, Datacom and Tech Data Systems are among the winners in this year's Aruba APAC partner awards.

The traditional PC market has clocked a better than expected result Q3, with HP logging a 'notable' growth thanks to big wins in Asia Pacific.

Microsoft may have lost the smartphone battle, but it's gaining share in the Australian tablet market according to new Telstye research.

Malaysian companies have picked up key awards at the WITSA Global ICT Excellence Awards and the Asia-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation awards.

Data#3's Glenn McAtee is moving across to Cirrus Networks, taking on the role of WA state manager for the IT solutions provider.

SAP solutions, hosting and managed services provider Itelligence has acquired SAP reseller vCentric Technologies Private Limited.

Sophos has expanded its channel program to include a cloud security specialty as it seeks to capitalise on the growing public cloud market.

Ingram Micro teams with Cisco to offer the Spark collaboration tool, boosting reseller profits via its Australian Cloud Marketplace.

Westcon-Comstor's Asia Pacific business has logged a $17m drop in revenue for the H1 of this financial year, but managed a $1.6m profit increase.

Asia Pacific is now the number one inkjet market in the world according to IDC, with the region also recording the highest laser growth for Q2.

BlackBerry has expanded its Indian channel, appointing six new partners as the Canadian vendor looks to increase its enterprise business.

Connector Systems is increasing its IoT push, with the distributor bringing on new agencies and looking to connect resellers with relevant parties.

Dell and HPE have lost ground in the cloud IT infrastructure market as Huawei, NetApp and Inspur surge, albeit from smaller bases.

Esignature and DTM vendor DocuSign is joining Ingram Micro Australia's Cloud Marketplace, offering up wide-ranging opportunities for local resellers.

ZK Research's Zeus Kerravala, writing for Silver Peak, argues that WAN optimisation and SD-WAN need to go hand in hand.

Veeam bolsters its hybrid cloud offerings by integrating support for Microsoft Azure Stack, enhancing data protection in APAC.

Aruba Airheads flocked to Macau last week for APAC Atmosphere, where attendees got hands on with Aruba's vision for smart spaces.