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CRN | February 21, 2020

VMware pioneered the software-defined data centre and products like hyperconverged infrastructure that make it easier to implement and operate. But are buyers ready to bite? CRN convened a roundtable of Melbourne VMware partners to assess the state of the market. Cathy Gu, Digicor: We used to be the exclusive distributor for a software-defined storage startup. It was very affordable and lots of organisations used it for non-mission-critical storage. We found it generated a lot of services becaus...

flexiWAN | June 02, 2020

Prodapt & Digital Service Provider (DSP) industry, announced a partnership with flexiWAN, the world's first open-source SD-WAN platform to hit general availability and joining Prodapt's Open Virtual Exchange. DSPs face challenges with an ex...

Lightreading | March 18, 2020

As they edge (sic) towards a 5G architecture, can the network operator community build on key takeaways from their early virtualization efforts? Susan James, senior director of Telecommunications Strategy at Red Hat, sure as hell hopes so. "The telcos need to look at what has been learned from the NFV years," says James, adding pointedly, "there's no point in just dumping applications into containers." And that could be the temptation as the telecom sector starts to embrace the cloud-native aspe...

SimpleCloud | September 15, 2020

SimpleCloud, the cloud-based remote workplace, today announced its education platform that allows classroom instruction to go remote in a matter of hours and maintain instruction continuity in applications like Autodesk, Adobe, Unity and Unreal Engine just to name a few. A short video explaining the key capabilities of SimpleCloud for Education can be viewed here. Reducing the technology barrier for students entering universities and colleges this year, SimpleCloud can help retain students for t...