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Julia Gabel

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Kiwi Stories

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James Shaw, electric cars & the winners of the 2017 Sustainable Business Awards
DataCentre infrastructure

James Shaw, electric cars & the winners of the 2017 Sustainable Business Awards

New Zealand Post wins top award at the NZI Sustainable Business Awards 2017, recognising its commitment to sustainability.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Tue, 5th Dec 2017

Global Stories

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New partnership lays groundwork for 20 new data centers across Australia
Hyperscale

New partnership lays groundwork for 20 new data centers across Australia

Swedish company Flexenclosure plans to build up to 20 data centers in Australia over the next three years in partnership with local provider Virtutel.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Mon, 4th Dec 2017
Cruise ships, cloudifying apps & IoT: An exclusive interview with an Azure Stack expert
Hybrid Cloud

Cruise ships, cloudifying apps & IoT: An exclusive interview with an Azure Stack expert

Microsoft's Azure Stack allows cruise ships and other remote locations to process IoT data locally, without relying on the public cloud.

By Julia Gabel • 5 min read • Mon, 4th Dec 2017
Datacom expands fintech footprint with $20m deal
Fintech

Datacom expands fintech footprint with $20m deal

Finzsoft's professional services team will move to Datacom, although customer contracts will remain with Finzsoft.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Mon, 4th Dec 2017
How IoT data collection & aggregation with local event processing work
Data Analytics

How IoT data collection & aggregation with local event processing work

Trying to predict how many IOT devices will go online over the next decade is like trying to predict the growth rate of rabbits in the wild.

By Julia Gabel • 8 min read • Sat, 2nd Dec 2017
Microsoft teams up with TomTom to launch Azure Location Based Services
Unified Communications

Microsoft teams up with TomTom to launch Azure Location Based Services

Microsoft is launching a new Azure service that aims to meet the geospatial needs enterprise customers that use location data.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Fri, 1st Dec 2017
Why New Zealand becoming Australia's data center hub can help save our planet
Hyperscale

Why New Zealand becoming Australia's data center hub can help save our planet

Data centers' power use soars; could NZ's green energy be an eco-friendly solution for Australia's data needs?.

By Julia Gabel • 13 min read • Fri, 1st Dec 2017
Exclusive interview: What happens when artificial intelligence is racist?
Risk & Compliance

Exclusive interview: What happens when artificial intelligence is racist?

So, the question then becomes, are organisations (and the general public) prepared to trade more transparency for better decisions?.

By Julia Gabel • 7 min read • Fri, 1st Dec 2017
Exclusive interview: ESET on protecting the mobile workforce
Malware

Exclusive interview: ESET on protecting the mobile workforce

Expect to see more instances of ransomware, DDoS attacks and attacks against Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

By Julia Gabel • 4 min read • Fri, 1st Dec 2017
Japanese telco giant opens new data center in Johannesburg
Hyperscale

Japanese telco giant opens new data center in Johannesburg

Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Communications and Internet Solutions of South Africa have launched the Nexcenter Parklands Data Center in Johannesburg.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017
Top tips for using big data to your advantage this holiday season
Data Analytics

Top tips for using big data to your advantage this holiday season

It is important you research the market to ensure that you can beat the competition and sustain long-term growth.

By Julia Gabel • 4 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017
Frost & Sullivan names Indonesia's top data center service provider
Unified Communications

Frost & Sullivan names Indonesia's top data center service provider

Frost - Sullivan honours top Indonesian companies for leadership, innovation, customer service and product development.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017
Interview: zipMoney on disrupting the consumer credit market & that $40m Westpac investment
Unified Communications

Interview: zipMoney on disrupting the consumer credit market & that $40m Westpac investment

They knew that Australian consumers were unhappy with credit cards and other debt facilities - especially millennials.

By Julia Gabel • 6 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017
Industry players weigh in on Sky TV's move to block websites
Digital Entertainment

Industry players weigh in on Sky TV's move to block websites

Sky TV takes legal action to block certain websites in New Zealand, prompting backlash from ISPs and InternetNZ.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Thu, 30th Nov 2017
Dell Technologies: 2018 will be the year of the mega cloud
Robotics

Dell Technologies: 2018 will be the year of the mega cloud

Dell Technologies predicts a strong focus on human-machine partnership as one of the key trends in the technology market for 2018.

By Julia Gabel • 8 min read • Wed, 29th Nov 2017
Photo gallery: The world's most extreme data centers
Data Analytics

Photo gallery: The world's most extreme data centers

Negative 40 degrees, this facility is in an environment so cold they have to heat the air used to cool the data center.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Wed, 29th Nov 2017
Amazon Web Services vs. Azure
Hyperscale

Amazon Web Services vs. Azure

Apparently, AWS deploys about 200,000 updates each month so we are never short of new innovations to work with.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Wed, 29th Nov 2017

Stories from Other Regions

Written by Julia