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Sara Barker
Copywriter and Senior News Editor
Sara lives in a world of words and stories. For more than six years she has been delving deep into the rich world of tech news, content creation, journalism and reviews for Techday. She brings an academic background in information systems, marketing, radio, and journalism to her role. She enjoys casual gaming, cats, and reading.
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Stuff Fibre: What are the experts saying?

Fri, 12th Aug 2016
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Stuff's UFB entry may come with complications, according to commentary from Spark and DTS CEO Brendan Ritchie.
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Neo Telemedia financials confirm importance of data center investment

Thu, 11th Aug 2016
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Neo Telemedia, has attributed some of its HK$1,753,076,000 revenue to its data center portfolio, including 60% equity in provider Ghangzhou Zitou.
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REDI Global extends data center infrastructure into Asia Pacific

Thu, 11th Aug 2016
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REDI Global strengthens its Asia-Pacific foothold, expanding data centres and team to drive regional growth in trade tech.
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Adobe launches 'industry-first' Digital Marketing Accreditation

Thu, 11th Aug 2016
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Adobe has teamed up with General Assembly to offer the Adobe Digital Marketing Accreditation, to be run by experts and 'Adobe technology evangelists'.
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CDNetworks explains the brute force of XOR.DDoS attacks

Thu, 11th Aug 2016
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The XOR.DDoS creates huge volumes of of data and meaningless strings in a SYN flood attack, crippling Linux PCs - and Windows too, says CDNetworks.
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Stuff's entry into the Ultra Fast Broadband market 'out of the blue'

Wed, 10th Aug 2016
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Media agencies are now getting on the UFB train, as Stuff announces Stuff Fibre services, due to start in the next three months.
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PLDT plans 8th data center & cable landing station in the Phillippines

Wed, 10th Aug 2016
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PLDT announces three major ICT projects, including a cable landing station and its eighth data center in the Phillippines.
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AWS named leader in Gartner's 2016 IaaS Magic Quadrant

Wed, 10th Aug 2016
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been named a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant Cloud Infrastructure as a Service category for the 6th consecutive year.
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Facebook to improve 'ad preference' management & thwart adblockers

Wed, 10th Aug 2016
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Facebook announced overnight that it will give users more freedom to control their advertising experience & take power away from desktop ad blockers.
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TIBCO works with ASX to 'interconnect' rich data transformation

Wed, 10th Aug 2016
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TIBCO is bringing its transformational touch to the Australian market, as the company announced its expansion to help enterprises leverage rich data.
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Fujitsu's data centers on target for environmental efficiency

Tue, 9th Aug 2016
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Fujitsu has improved its data center power usage effectiveness (PUE) by more than 2%, well on target for environmental performance improvement.
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Oper8 & NEXTDC create colocation & connectivity for customers

Tue, 9th Aug 2016
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Australian IT provider Oper8 has chosen NEXTDC's data center network to host colocation services for IT solutions across Australia & NZ.
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Visa seeks tech startups for its $70,000 Everywhere Initiative

Tue, 9th Aug 2016
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Visa is encouraging startups across New Zealand & Australia to step forward and apply for the Everywhere Initiative, to pave the way for payment tech.
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ESET discovers fake Prisma apps full of trojans

Mon, 8th Aug 2016
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ESET researchers reported fake versions of photo transformation app Prisma on Google Play, just ahead of the official app's launch last month.
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Avelacom brings low latency to Singapore's SGX data center

Mon, 8th Aug 2016
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Avelacom leverages Singapores SGX data centre to make data latency even lower, as the company establishes a point of presence in the region.
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NZ partners swept in the UpFlow as company launches local office

Mon, 8th Aug 2016
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Document management company UpFlow is setting its sights on New Zealand, which the company says is 'great news' for its New Zealand partners.
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Singapore's DBS Bank complements data centers with AWS Cloud

Fri, 5th Aug 2016
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Singapore's DBS Bank will be leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power its cloud technology, alongside its traditional use of data centers.
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Telin-3 Singapore data center 'tops out' build, gears up for 3Q16 launch

Thu, 4th Aug 2016
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Telin has announced work has finished on its third data center Telin-3, is the only Singapore center to receive Tier-IV certification of Design.
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Noel Leeming reopens 'innovative' Chch store following TWG's strong revenue growth

Thu, 4th Aug 2016
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Noel Leeming is reopening its teched-out flagship store in Christchurch, pulling together an innovative and state-of-the-art retail space.
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Digital Realty's senior VP sales & marketing departs, hunt begins for replacement

Wed, 3rd Aug 2016
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Digital Realty has announced that Matt Miszewski, senior VP of sales & marketing, will be leaving the company to 'pursue other career opoprtunities'.