Microsoft Azure on show as Softsource gets tough on NZ hybrid cloud
Growing Kiwi tech firm Softsource joins elite group of New Zealand cloud providers in working together with Microsoft...
Growing Kiwi tech firm Softsource joins elite group of New Zealand cloud providers in working together with Microsoft...
Microsoft NZ honoured its channel community at the 2013 Partner Awards that took place last evening in Auckland's Langham Hotel. A total of 22 awards were given out across four main categories including Cloud, Competency, Individual and Segment. Partners with strong Cloud solutions and projects dominated the event, including SoftSource, which picked up three awards, and Gen-i and IT Engine, which collected two awards each.Speaking at the event, Paul Muckleston, MD of Microsoft NZ, promised two Azure data centres in Australia soon for partners to tap into and provide computing power to their customers.
HP’s acquisition of storage specialist 3Par last year is being utilised locally with the opening of a datacentre in Albany, north of Auckland, that is operated by local systems integrator Softsource.