IT Department stories

Dell appoints veteran sales leader Richard McLaughlin as APJC president, tasking him with driving AI-era growth across key regional markets.

TCS will overhaul Flight Centre’s global tech backbone, standardising cloud, networks and platforms to boost resilience and performance.

Sage sees four senior leaders named 2026 CRN Channel Chiefs as it leans on partners to drive AI-led growth for SMB finance and HR.

AI-hungry workloads are forcing data centres to go high-density, pushing power, cooling and sustainability to the top of the IT agenda.

NTT DATA’s 2026 foresight flags six AI trends driving an ‘age of mass intelligence’, reshaping autonomy, security and chip sovereignty.

Synology secures ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, bolstering its global information security management and risk governance credentials.

Interactive and Ansvar celebrate 15-year tech partnership underpinning cyber security, compliance and modernisation in insurance.

NEXTDC has hired Jodi Pearce as Alliance Director to steer AI-focused partnerships and expand its ecosystem around NVIDIA DGX-ready sites.

Rockwell opens a 24/7 Singapore security operations centre to monitor and defend industrial OT networks across the Asia Pacific region.

Fortinet crowns Aussie Broadband its Australia Partner of the Year 2025, also naming it Telco Partner of the Year amid wider channel honours.

Australian workplaces brace for 2026 as AI, hybrid models and security demands converge to reshape how, where and why people work.

Hexnode embeds its upgraded Genie AI into the UEM console, letting admins query inventory, execute device commands and automate fixes in chat.

Governance gaps and tool sprawl are stalling Microsoft automation at scale, with most large IT teams lacking control, visibility and integration.

New Zealand start-up mA.I Health has launched an AI-powered app giving patients lifetime control of secure, shareable medical records.

Agentic AI is shredding seat-based SaaS models, sparking a wave of ‘zombie’ vendors, valuation shocks and leaner, AI-native rivals.

Acronis has renewed its partnership with Manchester City, extending its role safeguarding the club’s expanding digital and data operations.

Identity Digital names CRO Matt Overman to CRN’s 2026 Channel Chiefs list, spotlighting its growing domain partner ecosystem and strategy.

Expereo and Cato Networks join forces to offer multinational firms unified managed connectivity and cloud security via a single provider.

Netskope launches One Data Lineage to map data flows and tighten AI governance, promising clearer audit trails and stronger compliance.

AvePoint extends its Confidence Platform to tighten agentic AI governance and broaden multi-cloud backup across major SaaS and IaaS tools.