The Ultimate Guide to Converged Infrastructure
A curated Kiwi edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Converged Infrastructure.
What to know about Converged Infrastructure
Converged infrastructure represents the integration of compute, storage, networking, and management into a unified system designed to streamline data center operations and support digital transformation. It simplifies IT environments, reduces complexity, and enhances scalability and agility, making it a key enabler for businesses adapting to rapid technological change.
This collection of stories explores how converged and hyperconverged infrastructures are evolving to meet the demands of modern enterprises, highlighting market shifts, vendor innovations, partnership ecosystems, and practical applications across industries. From accelerating cloud adoption and facilitating hybrid environments to driving cost efficiencies and enabling data-driven operations, converged infrastructure is shaping the future of enterprise IT.
Readers interested in understanding how integrated technological solutions can optimize infrastructure management, support agile business models, and foster innovation will find valuable insights in these articles. They reveal trends, challenges, and strategic considerations for leveraging converged systems to enhance competitiveness and operational excellence in today’s fast-paced digital landscape.
Kiwi Converged Infrastructure News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Westcon-Comstor unveils NZ data centre Centre of Excellence
Westcon-Comstor launches a New Zealand data centre Centre of Excellence, led by Rob Purdy, to drive multi-vendor, solutions-first channel sales.
Westcon-Comstor expands Nutanix distribution in New Zealand
Westcon-Comstor is now an authorised distributor of Nutanix in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, enhancing hybrid multi-cloud offerings for local resellers.
Kyndryl hires managing director for New Zealand team
Kyndryl has appointed Audrey Campbell-Frear as managing director for New Zealand, with a focus on customer relationships and technology transformation.
How Kiwi businesses can embrace a mobile workforce
As an early adopter of Amazon Web Services, Suncorp uses the public cloud to manage many applications and services central to its business.
Ingram Micro adds Nutanix to advanced solutions portfolio
Ingram Micro has and Nutanix have inked a deal to enhance cloud automation and hyper-converged infrastructure offerings in New Zealand's booming market.
Pure Storage adds power to Kiwi VR/AI workspace
The partnership includes the installation of a Kubernetes cluster backed by high-performance storage to accelerate the training of AI models.
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Recent Converged Infrastructure News
Pure Storage leaves Arrow for Westcon
After two and a half years of success with Arrow ECS in the NZ market, Pure Storage has made the move to exclusivity with Westcon-Comstor.
Commvault's powerful new hyperconverged infrastructure simplifies data management
There's an increasing awareness of and focus on secondary data serving more uses to the business, rather than simply being an insurance policy.
EBOOK: How to avoid the pitfalls of enterprise cloud adoption
One of the biggest concerns businesses have about moving to the cloud is sacrificing the security and control of having your applications on-premise.
Gisborne District Council issues tender for IT makeover
Gisborne's District Council has issued a tender for the replacement of its end-of-life servers and storage with hyper-converged infrastructure.
Exclusive: Veeam focuses on flexibility for Availability Suite v10
Veeam's Nathan Steiner talks about what its partnerships mean for its Australian and New Zealand service providers.
A haka for hybrid cloud: The optimal data storage strategy for NZ enterprises
Within the APJ region, New Zealand has the highest proportion of enterprises unwilling to move their critical workloads to the public cloud.
SimpliVity experiences significant success in ANZ region
SimpliVity experiences exceptional growth in Australia and New Zealand, with increased customer sales and strategic partnerships.
ViFX reels in Sealord with Nutanix deal
ViFX has reeled in Sealord Group in a deal which saw the Kiwi reseller deploying Nutanix web-scale infrastructure across the company's operations.
SimpliVity's OmniStack 3.0 comes to NZ
SimpliVity brings its advanced OmniStack 3.0 Data Virtualisation to New Zealand, offering robust multi-site solutions.
New heads for Pure Storage APJ and ANZ channel
Nigel Peach ascends to APJ director role at Pure Storage, with Mike Sakalas stepping in as ANZ country manager.
PGG Wrightson shuns tape for disk
PGG Wrightson has swapped tape backups for disk-to-disk, cutting backup time from 120 hours to 12, thanks to New Zealand's Revera, enhancing data protection.
Qualys & Converge launch cyber insurance pricing tool
Qualys and Converge tie cyber insurance premiums to live security data, aiming to reward stronger controls with lower costs for customers.
Dell launches PowerMaxOS 10.4 with faster, safer storage
Dell rolls out PowerMaxOS 10.4 with ransomware detection, faster VMware migrations and expanded support for OpenShift and Fibre Channel SANs.
StorMagic posts 36% growth as VMware rivals gain ground
StorMagic says customers fleeing VMware and rising hardware costs helped drive 36% annual recurring revenue growth as it expands partners.
Hitachi Vantara names ANZ partner award winners 2025 awards
Hitachi Vantara has honoured five Australia and New Zealand partners at its 2025 awards, as the vendor steps up channel investment amid AI readiness concerns.
Nutanix & NetApp launch virtualisation migration tie-up
Nutanix and NetApp team up on migration tools to help enterprises modernise virtualised systems, cut complexity and bolster ransomware defences.
Nutanix adds AI & cloud tools amid infrastructure push
Nutanix broadens AI and cloud platform with bare-metal Kubernetes, sovereign cloud support and wider hardware ties amid supply constraints.
Nutanix targets VMware escapees with multitenant cloud push
Nutanix rolls out multitenant cloud tools, partner verification and migration pricing to lure service providers leaving VMware.
StorMagic & HiveRadar launch mobile edge data centre
StorMagic teams with HiveRadar on a rugged mobile edge data centre, bringing virtualised compute and storage to remote, off-grid sites.
Vertiv & Nvidia boost AI data centre design with DSX
Vertiv and Nvidia deepen collaboration on simulation-ready AI data centre blueprints to cut deployment risk and speed build-out at scale.