Kim Voon claims New Zealand companies need to get off their bums and get on with adopting new marketing tech or face being left behind by their global peers.

The relentless demand for more data has seen a spike both in the size and number of hyperscale data centres.

One of the larger scandals within IT circles took place this year with Bloomberg firing shots at Supermicro - now Supermicro is firing back.

There was a lot to unpack at the Canalys APAC Channels Forum keynote. This long-form piece tries to cover all the most relevant points for A/NZ.

Amazon QLDB is a new class of database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable ledger.

The old proverb ‘you have to spend money to make money’ could never be truer than in the hyperscale data centre industry.

Amazon isn't providing enough details about the error - and customers aren't happy.

"Amazon Web Services is one of the rare companies that can be a market leader but remain ruthlessly innovative and agile."

For our NZ$8.90 per month, the average cost per title is US$0.00126 - but we only really get a choice of 416 TV shows and 4321 movies. Choice is a little bit limited compared to other countries.

While the market is seeing strong growth, it's coming at the expense of small-to-medium sized cloud operators.

Larry Ellison claims the rest of the cloud market is based on decade old technology with poor security, comparing Oracle's new offering with Amazon.

Big feathers have been ruffled following the bombshell Chinese spy allegations, and now Supermicro has announced it will be conducting a review to prove its innocence.

“Continuous change can be made into an asset if an organisation sharpens its vision in order to see the future coming.”

The dust still hasn't settled on the report that caused Supermicro's stocks to collapse, and now Apple is stressing its innocence.

A report has exploded claiming Chinese spies have managed to plant backdoors into servers sold from Supermicro to some of the world's biggest players - all of whom deny it.

Amazon ECS service discovery makes it easy for containerised services to discover and connect with each other.

In the first half of this year more than US$53b has been spent on hyperscale data centre development, with the bulk of that from just 5 companies.

Google, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle joined forces, pledging to speed up the progress of health data standards and interoperability.

While Google and Amazon still lead the way, it seems the smart speaker market is no exception to the steady rise of Chinese tech.

Amazon is still on top, but Alibaba’s investment strategy is giving the company huge potential for global growth.

"These deployments are a major opportunity for the IT channel to develop solutions and provide technical skills and services that customers may lack.”

As an AWS Migrations Acceleration Program Partner, it can help customers reduce the risk of migrating to AWS cloud.

The hottest two categories, Smart Speakers and Video Entertainment products, are expected to represent 71% of the market in 2018.

eBay is the favourite online shopping with over 9.4m Aussies visiting in an average four weeks, ahead of local second-hand site Gumtree with 5.6m.