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• Jo Healey appointed DiData's NZ CEO

  Jo Healey, formerly MD of Fujitsu New Zealand, has been appointed as NZ CEO at Dimension Data (DiData).

• Education New Zealand partners with Dimension Data for cloud program

  Opts for hybrid cloud environment for staff in 18 overseas locations
  

• Dimension Data to expand Earthwave security services worldwide

  Dimension Data plans to expand worldwide a managed security service offering it brought under its wing with the acquisition of Sydney-based Earthwave last year.

• Most IT firms in Auckland prefer suburbia than the city for office space: CBRE New Zealand

  Location is often determined by the area where most employees live, says CBRE New Zealand

• Photo Gallery: CIO roundtable on ‘Navigating the new workplace’

  New technologies bring greater communications and collaboration among teams, along with a raft of new issues for CIOs and their executive colleagues. At a recent CIO roundtable held in association with Dimension Data, panellists shared insights on how to lead this changing environment.

• DiData announces Cloud connection service

  Dimension Data has announced the availability of Cloud private network connection (CPNC) as an add-on service for its enterprise-class public, private and managed hosting cloud offerings.
  

• IT’s other growing footprint – office space

  Tech firms join finance as top sectors by demand for property in Auckland: CBRE

• Dimension data to provide desktop as a service for government

  Crown Law Office among first to move to cloud-based 3D Workspace.

• Dimension Data plans cloud backup for its computing services

  More cloud vendors are adding backup to the choices they offer customers, letting enterprises that embrace the cloud for applications, computing and storage also go there for business continuity.

• Microsoft names this year's Partner Awards finalists

  Microsoft says the bar has been raised for the fifth edition of its annual Partner Awards. The company has today announced the finalists for the different categories.

• Genesis energy moves outsourcing contract to Dimension Data

  Genesis Energy has signed a five year IT managed services contract with Dimension Data, replacing Gen-i as its outsource provider.
  The contract includes Dimension Data’s support service (Uptime) and service management offering (Insite) for the energy retailer’s nationwide corporate IT environment.

• CodeBlue announces new CIO role and a “virtual CIO” service

  Lee Madden has been appointed CodeBlue’s CIO, a newly-created position within the company. Madden will also be responsible for providing CIO services to CodeBlue customers, through the company’s new “virtual CIO” initiative.
  “‘The Virtual CIO’ is an initiative to deliver to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) the considerable cost savings and business advantages that dedicated CIOs bring to very large companies,” says Ian Funnell, CodeBlue’s general manager.

• Dimension Data steps into aged care services

  IT solutions and services company Dimension Data has been appointed by the Selwyn Foundation, one of the country’s largest charitable providers of aged care services, as the supplier of an upgraded IP telephony, switching and routing solution.

• After the acquisition, the rebranding

  Datacraft and Integral Axon have now officially rebranded as Dimension Data, following the acquisition of Integral Axon by Dimension Data’s wholly owned subsidiary Datacraft in October last year.
  According to Robin Hartendorp, the company’s CEO in New Zealand, this announcement marks the shift to a service-led organisation. “Rebranding to Dimension Data reflects our combined ambition to be New Zealand’s leading ICT services business,” he says.

• NTT to acquire Datacraft owner Dimension Data

  Japanese based telecommunications service provider Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) has made a cash offer of approximately 2.1 billion pounds for UK based IT service provider Dimension Data and its New Zealand subsidiaries Datacraft and distributor Express Data.
  NTT plans to acquire 100 percent of Dimension Data’s shares. The acquisition process is expected be completed by the end of October.