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  IN PICTURES: Salesforce World Tour 2016 in Melbourne (+30 photos)

  Cloud computing company, ​Salesforce, recently hosted its World Tour in Melbourne to share its vision on the ‘Age of the Customer’ and the opportunities this presents for Australian organisations. The event also showcased innovation and the building of the knowledge economy.​ Here are some photos from the event.

  IN PICTURES: Salesforce World Tour 2016 in Melbourne (+30 photos)
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  IN PICTURES: ARN Cloud Executive Lunch (+39 photos)

  The ARN Cloud Executive Lunch brought together a group of industry experts who illustrated how they approached the Cloud market in a unique way, the challenges, opportunities and successes they had seen, and offered advice for those who are still making the transition. The lunch was sponsored by Dicker Data. Photos by ARN Editorial Director, Mike Gee.

  IN PICTURES: ARN Cloud Executive Lunch (+39 photos)
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  IN PICTURES: The Distributor is the New Age Facilitator - An ARN Roundtable, Sydney, 18.02.16 (+45 photos)

  The market has disrupted – the traditional IT distribution channel is being challenged and it is impacting business models. As such, the role of the distributor needs to evolve to keep up with current times. In addition, the engagements between resellers, distributors, facilitators, and vendors are changing, causing ISVs to become suppliers and competing vendors to collaborate with each other. From a distribution perspective, competitors are now working together too. As the discussion moves away from talking about the push down from vendor to reseller to partner, to how knowledge sharing flows through the channel, businesses should start looking for ways where they can add value to this changing role of the partner. This exclusive roundtable discussed the way the channel is changing, how partner go-to-market strategies are evolving to become integrated networks, how businesses should collaborate with each other to go quicker to market and ways it can support an end-to-end Cloud strategy. The roundtable was sponsored by rhipe. Photos by ARN Editorial Director, Mike Gee

  IN PICTURES: The Distributor is the New Age Facilitator - An ARN Roundtable, Sydney, 18.02.16 (+45 photos)
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  IN PICTURES: ARN Backup and Disaster Recovery Roundtable, Sydney, 17.02.16

  When disaster strikes, it is not just data that needs restoring, but the full working environment, which means disaster recovery. No doubt the increasing use of virtualisation and the transition towards Cloud computing is changing the way backup and disaster recovery are being carried out. With the growing reliance on Cloud, many organisations are opting for a hybrid Cloud model, whereby Cloud storage and Cloud backup are paired with an on-premise backup appliance. It is an ideal way to expedite data recovery and meet demanding SLAs. This exclusive roundtable highlighted the latest partner opportunities, discuss customer pain points and market trends (including the emergence of disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) and the growing adoption of Cloud backup), and examine the latest state of play. The roundtable was sponsored by Bulletproof, Storagecraft and Veritas. Photos by ARN Editorial Director, Mike Gee.

  IN PICTURES: ARN Backup and Disaster Recovery Roundtable, Sydney, 17.02.16
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  IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Data Protection in the Hybrid Cloud (+28 photos)

  This exclusive ARN roundtable highlighted the opportunities and trends in the data protection market, and how the industry has evolved; examined the unique challenges in the hybrid Cloud environment and the associated customer pain points, and highlighted the growing business opportunities for partners. It was sponsored by EMC. Photos by ARN editorial Director, MIKE GEE.

  IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Data Protection in the Hybrid Cloud (+28 photos)
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  IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Future of the datacentre: Shifts and trends towards 2020

  ​The demand for IT resources is constantly increasing, with new workloads, users and data growing at an astounding rate. IT leaders must perform careful capacity planning to ensure adequate resources are available and service performance is maintained. And with disruptive technologies like virtualisation, Cloud solutions, mobile applications, IoT, software-defined infrastructure and converged infrastructures all changing the face of the datacentre, there is mounting pressure from IT to ensure technologies are integrated and managed properly. This exclusive roundtable highlighted the trends shaping the datacentre of today and into the future, from energy efficiencies to colocation and Cloud, while also examining opportunities and key challenges facing service providers in this highly competitive market. Photos by ARN Editorial Director, MIKE GEE.

  IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Future of the datacentre: Shifts and trends towards 2020

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News about cloud computing

• Dell targets the edge and zero trust with NativeEdge and Fort Zero developments

  Modern edge workloads were varied and growing, creating complex infrastructure environments.

• Kubernetes costs less, but less than what?

  Sure, compared to traditional IT, Kubernetes is great, but not much will beat public cloud in the long run.

• SAP adds new business units and APJ leaders

  Peter Moore, Sushant Jain and Liher Urbizu have been promoted to new leadership positions, based out of Singapore.

• Nutanix promotes Aaron White to lead APJ sales

  White will shift bases to Singapore after serving as vice president of EMEA Emerging Markets based in Dubai.

• NAB adds Google to mix as it continues its multi-cloud push

  Google Cloud Platform joins AWS and Azure as bank continues its cloud push

• DXC sets Origin Energy up for VMware Cloud on AWS

  Set move from pilot phase to a larger deployment

Interviews about cloud computing

• Rhody Burton: IBM's channel solution

  IBM A/NZ director of global business partners, Rhody Burton, sat down with Jennifer O'Brien in a very candid and personal discussion about her journey into ...

• When it comes to Cloud security which is better? Heavy hand or gentle policing?

  When it comes to successfully managing Cloud use within the enterprise, some security organizations try to establish and enforce firm lines between what is permissible ...

• SAP CEO Bill McDermott on why Concur is worth $8.3 billion

  Buying Concur 'is the best business case I've ever put in front of the board,' McDermott says

• NetApp sets its sights on cloud data management: A Q&A with CEO Tom Georgens

  Moving virtual servers around a hybrid cloud environment isn't hard, but managing the data is.

• HP CIO, Ramon Baez, sees your future in the Cloud

  In this Q&A, Baez explains how CIOs can make the most from the Cloud and Big Data

• Cloud provider FireHost's security chief brings lessons from the front lines

  Chief Security Officer Jeff Schilling ran security at the US Army and Department of Defense

Features about cloud computing

• Meg Whitman tells IT leaders everything they need to know about HP Enterprise

  In a recent interview, HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman discusses her firm's RD strategy and how it differentiates itself from other IT vendors in areas ...

• Why Dropbox dropped Amazon's Cloud

  And what it means for the Cloud market

• Microsoft, Google earnings shed light on Cloud war

  While Microsoft currently has a significant lead over Google in the workplace productivity market, the companies' cloud-based offerings are just a small fraction of their ...

• Why Microsoft continues to embrace the freemium model

  Microsoft's business strategy for the cloud appears to amount to this: ‘Be more like Apple.’ Here’s why that approach works.

• 5 tips for securing your AWS Cloud

  AWS security best practices

• 21 data and analytics trends that will dominate 2016

  Five industry insiders predict the trends that will shape the big data and analytics market in 2016.