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IN PICTURES: Oki updates resellers at ChannelOne Dealer Forum

The Oki Data ChannelOne Dealer Forum and product launch saw the vendor's executive series channel partners learn about its new line of enterprise-class A3 multifunction printers. Oki also updated resellers on its new channel program, marketing initiatives, and price repositioning of existing products.

IN PICTURES: Oki updates resellers at ChannelOne Dealer Forum
IN PICTURES: Inside Synnex's vendor portfolio at Alliance Roadshow

The final leg of Synnex Australia's Alliance Roadshow was hosted at Rosehill Gardens in Sydney. The showcase features a wide array of vendors within the distributor's arsenal, and a wealth of reseller guests. ARN was also invited to host its own booth at the event.

IN PICTURES: Inside Synnex's vendor portfolio at Alliance Roadshow
IN PICTURES: Partners and customers dive deep into Huawei

Customers and partners attended the Huawei ICT Road show this week, hosted at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne – a beautiful world heritage building first completed in 1880. The event showcased Huawei solutions along with technology and industry updates, panel discussions with customers, a technology exhibition and container data centre demonstrations. Guests were also treated to networking drinks in the magnificent surroundings accompanied by a string quartet.

IN PICTURES: Partners and customers dive deep into Huawei
IN PICTURES: Nimble Storage names its top Asia-Pacific partners (+25 photos)

Nimble Storage's Asia-Pacific (APAC) partner event was held at the Chateau Elan Resort in the Hunter Valley, with 120 from 90 partner organisations in attendance. The three-day event merged shop-talk with recreation, with an awards ceremony rounding out the event. Photos: Shinara Armitage Photography

IN PICTURES: Nimble Storage names its top Asia-Pacific partners (+25 photos)
IN PICTURES: Audio-visual technology on show at Integrate 2014

Integrate 2014 hosted more than 500 vendors across the audio-visual, unified communications (UC) and smart building industries. In addition to information and training seminars, the exhibition contained an open roadshow floor of local and international technology vendors and integrators, including IT giants and disruptors.

IN PICTURES: Audio-visual technology on show at Integrate 2014
IN PICTURES: Synnex's $45m automated logistics centre launched by Turnbull and Dr Miau

Synnex has opened the doors to its $45 million monster logistics centre with the help of visiting company chairman and director, Dr Matthew Miau, and Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull. The fully-automated facility is located in Lidcombe, a Western Sydney suburb which has grown to become a commercial and industrial hub for major IT players. The centre will operate with Synnex three V philosophy - visibility, velocity, value - to bring vendor and reseller partners predictability. Photos inside the facility were not permitted.

IN PICTURES: Synnex's $45m automated logistics centre launched by Turnbull and Dr Miau
IN PICTURES: ARN 'Distributors make their mark in the Cloud' Roundtable (+32 photos)

ARN's latest roundtable, 'Distributors make their mark in the Cloud', hosted industry experts from all levels of the channel at Sydney's O Bar and Dining. With 360-degree views of the cityscape, attendees discussed the impact of Cloud computing on distribution, the roles of distributors in the Cloud, and the changing face of channel relations. Full feature coverage of the roundtable will be included in the September 3 edition of ARN. Photographs by Ian Sharp.

IN PICTURES: ARN 'Distributors make their mark in the Cloud' Roundtable (+32 photos)
IN PICTURES: Nutanix boss comes down under to meet partners

Nutanix's global sales vice-president, Sudheesh Nair, ended his trip to Australia with a networking evening with the vendor's business partners. In attendance were vendors with complementary product, distributor WhiteGold Solutions, and a range of specialist resellers. The event was hosted at the Argyle in The Rocks, Sydney.

IN PICTURES: Nutanix boss comes down under to meet partners
IN PICTURES: Lenovo credits top A/NZ partners

Lenovo hosted its Business Partner Gala Dinner on June 12 to recognise top performing partners across Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ). Ingram Micro Australia took out the Distributor of the Year award, with other winners including Data#3, Blue Connections, Gen-i, Trident, and Core Tech.

IN PICTURES: Lenovo credits top A/NZ partners
McAfee gives top APAC partner award to Dimension Data

Dimension Data has come away from McAfee’s 2013 Channel Partners Awards as both the security vendor’s Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) ‘Overall Partner of the Year’. McAfee, part of Intel Security, hosted the gala event as part of its partner conference in Bali, Indonesia, from May 28 to 30. The winners of the 25 categories were selected based on performance, results, and partnerships which demonstrated growth. Other A/NZ winners included Manage Protect (SMB Partner of the Year), Loop Technology (Commercial Partner of the year), Content Security (Growth Partner of the Year), and Ingram Micro (Distributor of the Year).

McAfee gives top APAC partner award to Dimension Data
IN PICTURES: Symantec names top A/NZ partners

Westcon New Zealand and Data#3 took top honours at Symantec's 2014 Pacific Partner Awards in Sydney, winning the Distributor of the Year and Symantec Partner of the Year categories, respectively. The firms were selected judged on overall performance in revenue growth, achievement of Symantec specialisation, joint marketing activities, program adoption, technical expertise and customer service excellence. Other winners included Ethan Group, Insight, Intalock, Insentra, and Datacom NZ.

IN PICTURES: Symantec names top A/NZ partners
IN PICTURES: APC by Schneider Electric Partner Summit

APC by Schneider Electric hosted its fifth annual Partner Summit at Sydney's Doltone House on April 3. The day-long event addressed key industry trends and talking points, and engaged partners on market opportunities and strategy.

IN PICTURES: APC by Schneider Electric Partner Summit
IN PICTURES: EUC journey roundtable with VMware and partners

ARN's latest roundtable, The EUC journey continues: Partners to empower the multi-device era, hosted in conjunction with VMware, focused on end-user computing in the post-PC era, and the impact of mobile device, BYOD, social networks, and Cloud services on the way enterprises do business. With a diverse demographic of partners at the table, discussions focused on opportunities for service providers in helping customers transform workplace productivity by exploring centrally-managed IT services delivered to any device, anywhere.

IN PICTURES: EUC journey roundtable with VMware and partners
IN PICTURES: WatchGuard A/NZ Elite 2013 winners and grinners - Day 4

Winners of WatchGuard A/NZ Elite 2013 are in the midst of a rewards trip to Malaysia. Here are the highlights from day four's gala dinner.

IN PICTURES: WatchGuard A/NZ Elite 2013 winners and grinners - Day 4
IN PICTURES: WatchGuard A/NZ Elite 2013 winners celebrate in Malaysia - Day 2

Winners of WatchGuard A/NZ Elite 2013 are in the midst of a rewards trip to Malaysia following successful sales on the back of the incentive program. Here are highlights from day two of the conference and the dinner.

IN PICTURES: WatchGuard A/NZ Elite 2013 winners celebrate in Malaysia - Day 2