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Local IT spend is tracking ahead of the global average with Gartner forecasting growth across all segments - except data centre systems.

A marshmallow drive, challenges and Happy Gilmore golf – Ingram Micro’s Kiwi resellers take to the course for charity. Here are the pics to prove it.

Ingram Micro New Zealand’s Cure Kids Charity Golf Tournament has soared high for the third year in a row, raising more than $59,000 for the charity.

Former CommVault sales exec Paul McClure is taking on the newly created position of chief revenue office as UltraServe seeks accelerated global growth.

IDC says demand for better security outcomes is driving demand for professional and managed security services across Asia Pacific.

With consumption based buying de rigueur, leasing too is seeing growth, with resellers being urged to capitalise on the demand.

Datatec has confirmed its considering a possible US$800m sale of a major share of Westcon-Comstor. Analysts tip Synnex and Arrow as best fit buyers.

The weather outside may have been frightful this week, but that didn’t stop the distie deals, vendor offerings and channel reappearances.

Atlas Gentech’s leasing arm, Simply Leasing, has relaunched with the company promising it will be aggressively pursuing increased market share.

Three Dicker Data New Zealand resellers took to the great outdoors last week after winning the distributor's Walk the Walk promotion.

BitTitan says its new expanded version of the MSPComplete platform empowers partners to increase revenue and reduce service delivery costs.

IDC says 37% of Aussie data centre compute capacity will be installed in hyperscale data centres this year, with data centres taking 29% of DX spend.

Lenovo's new PC-as-a-service in NZ offers firms a streamlined, managed tech lifecycle, aiming to boost efficiency and cut IT budgets.

SonicWall launches SecureFirst Partner Program locally, adds new training and marketing capabilities as channel interest surges post-spin out.

IDC is urging all enterprises to understand and plan for the adoption and use of cognitive and AI systems, as spend on the technologies surges.

DNA Connect has inked a deal to add optical networking vendor PacketLight Networks to its connectivity portfolio locally.

Belinda Jurisic has been appointed ANZ head of channel sales for Veeam, with her sights set on enterprise growth for the vendor.

Dimension Data’s New Zealand operations have recorded a widening loss and decreased revenue for its latest financial year.

India’s external storage market has been bolstered by increased banking and government spend, while companies adopt flash ‘like never before’.

Global firms to up security budgets to $105bn by 2020, with banks leading spend in battle against cyber threats, says IDC report.