Despite a drop in router and wireless LAN, ethernet switches are quickly gaining popularity, according to the latest statistics from IDC.

Spending in the market is on the rise with the usual suspects like Dell EMC, Microsoft, HPE, Huawei, and Cisco at the top.

The tech heavyweights have announced a partnership in an effort to tap into a burgeoning market specialising in lightweight solutions.

While the unprecedented growth of the infrastructure systems market last year was shared by both non-cloud and cloud segments, IDC says there is change in the air.

IDC has released its latest findings surrounding India’s server market – and the news isn’t great for the market as it has fallen significantly.

“The rapid adoption of T4 on the world’s most popular business servers signals the start of a new era in enterprise computing."

"On-premise we speak English, Amazon speaks French, and Amazon and Microsoft speak something else. But someone has to translate all of that and Cisco is involved with normalising those rule sets.”

New Zealand is a little behind the times when it comes to security, but it does particularly well at innovating at speed.

At Cisco Live in Melbourne last week, Ridley discussed Cisco’s channel programme across A/NZ and how partners are giving meaning to the Country Impact Plan.

CISOs are now acknowledging the adage of ‘it’s not about if there’s a breach, but when’.

No matter where in Asia Pacific you look, almost all SMBs are barely scratching the surface of digital maturity.

Hitachi Vantara has highlighted its progress within the company and its partner community as it continues its investment into its partner business.

"“This is a natural extension of our Optus-Cisco partnership and truly provides businesses with operational improvements from day one of deployment."

Westcon’s beach-themed summer party invited partners in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland to celebrate their success with a cheeky cocktail.

Through software and automation, new intent-based network can automate routine tasks, provide analytics for informed decisions, and embed security into the network.

The trial has potentially groundbreaking implications for Australia’s interconnect and trunkflow across AARNet and the education sector.

The 17 winning partners of the latest Destination Comstor promotion headed down to the Queen Charlotte track for an all-expenses paid adventure.

This week Cisco is building ‘the bridge to possible’ to more than 8000 people expected to attend the Cisco Live 2019 conference in Melbourne.

" We’re not just helping to connect eligible SMBs to business nbn, we are helping to transform SMBs digitally whilst connecting, simply and more securely."

Optus is currently the first and only tier one telco in Australia to deploy the BroadCloud platform as a complete cloud-based solution.

Among other telecommunications infrastructure market findings, Dell’Oro reports that Huawei increased its share by 8 percentage points since 2013.

Cybersecurity professionals are growing in confidence, but visibility and employee risks remain major concerns.

Cisco announced a plan to invest AU$61 million over the next three years to help drive Australia’s secure digital transformation.

Cisco announced its collaboration with KT on the launch of a first-of-its-kind flexible and automated commercial 5G mobile network platform.