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As consumers increasingly expect greater personalisation and digital-first experiences, major retailers and consumer goods brands across Australia and New Zealand are turning to Snowflake to deliver on these expectations. 

Dicker Data Australia has been named Distributor of the Year for the Australia-New Zealand (ANZ) region by cybersecurity provider SonicWall.

GUEST RESEARCH: Paessler AG, a leading provider of IT monitoring solutions, has commissioned Intuit-Research to assess the current state of sustainability practices among businesses in Australia, New Zealand and Asean, which explores the drivers and barriers to implementing sustainable IT practices. The findings highlight the crucial role of IT monitoring in ensuring the success of sustainable IT strategies, which serve as a precursor to digital transformation.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Digital agility is the ability of an organisation to rapidly adapt to business disruptions by leveraging digital capabilities to not only restore business operations but also capitalise on the changed conditions in order to thrive, so how does Australia compare to the region, and why are some organisations still lagging?

GUEST INTERVIEW: Digital agility is the ability of an organisation to rapidly adapt to business disruptions by leveraging digital capabilities to not only restore business operations but also capitalise on the changed conditions in order to thrive, so how does Australia compare to the region, and why are some organisations still lagging?

COMPANY NEWS:  SonicWall, a global leader delivering Boundless Cybersecurity, today announced the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) regional winners for the SonicWall Partner Awards for the fiscal year 2022. The award honours SonicWall’s top-performing distributors and partners that have made outstanding contributions to drive the company’s most successful year yet.

Voice platform provider SecureCo has partnered with IBM to offer businesses a cloud-native voice platform that aims to enable "world-class" customer experiences.

Former Splunk executive Simon Eid has taken up a newly created role at MongoDB as senior vice president of APAC.

Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo has appointed Amar Babu to lead the company’s business in the Asia Pacific region, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, ASEAN, Australia, New Zealand, and India/South Asia.

Unified communications vendor Avaya has appointed 14-year company veteran Sami Ammous to Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific, responsible for managing its operations in Australia and New Zealand, ASEAN, Japan and Korea.

The jobs of the future are highly technology intensive and the combined effort of governments and international organisations must pick up pace to upgrade workers’ skills, according to one economic research analyst at analytics firm GlobalData.

Government officials from ASEAN and Pacific countries are to receive practical expert advice and skills training in dealing with cybersecurity challenges at a series of bootcamps to be conducted in Auatralia over the next four years.

Singtel has demonstrated its cross-border mobile payments service initiative to connect mobile wallets across borders for leaders at the 32nd ASEAN Summit in Singapore, ahead of the first commercial launch of the service in Thailand with regional associate AIS.

At the PTC conference today in Hawaii, Telstra announced that it "entered into agreements to invest in two new international subsea cable systems that will connect Hong Kong and the west coast of the United States".

Amidst an overall decline in demand for printer consumables in the Asia Pacific region, revenues for ink cartridges have declined in contrast to the laser toner market where there’s been growth, according to the latest market report from IDC.

Identity management solutions provider ForgeRock has appointed 30-year IT industry veteran John Donovan as Regional Vice President for Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN.

China’s global ICT giant, Huawei, has made available its Smart City solution in Malaysia, forming a significant partnership with the Malaysian Government as it pursues a strategy to build a ‘Smart Country’.

Polycom has appointed former Citrix executive Shirish Joshi as APAC Channel Sales Director.

Orange Business Services has a new Asia Pacific chief with the appointment of industry veteran Dr Patrick Sim as Senior Vice President for the region.

Juniper Networks says it has boosted its Asia Pacific senior management ranks to consolidate growth in the region as customers increasingly move to High IQ Networks and cloud environments.