New Zealand
NZ-specific security, tech and AI news — 223 items so far, from NZ-based outlets plus anything from the main feed that's specifically about NZ (not just a passing mention).
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- Westcon-Comstor posts record US$3.37B first-half sales as APAC demand for AI, cloud and cyber accelerates — Reseller News (NZ), 2d ago
- Oracle pledges US$1B investment for partner growth — Reseller News (NZ), 6d ago
- Salesforce to buy Braze for US$5.7 billion to boost real-time customer engagement — Reseller News (NZ), 10d ago
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Westcon-Comstor posts record US$3.37B first-half sales as APAC demand for AI, cloud and cyber accelerates
Westcon-Comstor has reported record first-half gross sales of US$3.37 billion, citing strong demand for cybersecurity, hybrid cloud and AI-enabling infrastructure across global markets, including Asia Pacific. The global technolog…
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Fake Anthropic AI previews lure in overeager employees
Everyone wants to know what Anthropic is up to, and hackers are gleefully exploiting the fact. New research from cyber security company Cofense describes a phishing campaign that hooks overeager enterprise users by making them thi…
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Fake ChatGPT, Claude apps spread malware via signed AI binaries
Attackers are distributing malware through fake ChatGPT and Claude desktop applications, using legitimate, digitally signed executables from OpenAI and Anthropic to load malicious code onto victims’ Windows systems, according to C…
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Cisco adapting its business for the AI era
Over the past 12 months, Cisco has been reshaping its own business to help partners grow in the artificial intelligence (AI) era, with changes spanning its go-to-market model, incentives, platforms and partner experience. This has…
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Microsoft offers exits to thousands of employees, including staff on AI and Copilot teams
Microsoft is offering voluntary exit packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly 27 per cent of its workforce, including staff on teams building Copilot and other AI products, as the company looks for ways to fund its AI investmen…
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Cisco 360 links partner profitability to secure AI and infrastructure services
As Cisco’s 360 partner program moves from strategy to execution, the vendor used Partner Summit 2026 to outline how it will support its channel in capturing opportunities created by AI-driven changes across security, infrastructur…
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Microsoft Teams to get AI protection against phishing and fraud
Microsoft is adding a new AI-powered security feature to Teams aimed at detecting phishing, scams, and identity theft by analysing conversations, Bleeping Computer reports. Instead of primarily checking for malicious links and fil…
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NetSuite launches SuiteExpress to expedite implementation and optimisation of ERP
Agentic AI is the main topic at most industry events this year, with vendors adding agents to their products with gleeful abandon. NetSuite is no different; at its SuiteWorld conference this week, it is unveiling agents and AI wor…
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In Pictures: Inside the Reseller News Leadership Program 2026
The Reseller News Leadership Program brought together emerging and mid-career professionals from across New Zealand’s technology channel at the Cordis in Auckland for an inspiring morning focused on leadership, personal growth and…
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Pax8 takes next steps to guide MSPs into MIPs with AI offerings
In the next step to help managed services providers (MSP) evolve into the managed intelligence providers (MIP), cloud marketplace provider Pax8 has launched AI offerings 8os and 8bot. Labelled as one of the first operating systems…
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GTIA to advance MSPs’ AI service capabilities with Managed Intelligence Alliance
The Global Technology Industry Association (GTIA) has created the vendor-neutral Managed Intelligence Alliance programme to help IT service providers deliver artificial intelligence SMBs securely, responsibly and at scale through …
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SUSE strengthens NVIDIA AI Factory ecosystem
Enterprise open-source vendor SUSE is making a play around sovereign AI through a partnership with NVIDIA to help organisations run private enterprise AI in their own environments. The integration of NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Arc…
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Oracle pledges US$1B investment for partner growth
Oracle has committed to spend US$1 billion over the next four years to help partners meet customer demand for AI solutions and services. Announced during the vendor’s AI World 2026 conference in Las Vegas, the investment is focuse…
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Zoom updates Up Partner programme with simplicity, incentives, MSP specialisation
Zoom is updating its partner programme over the next several months with a streamlined structure and new incentives for improved partner enablement and a deeper focus on AI-powered offerings. Announced at Zoomtopia Partner Connect…
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OpenAI’s models are deliberately breaking their misalignment monitoring systems
AI agents are getting more inventive in finding ways to circumvent safeguards to prevent bad behavior, OpenAI has revealed. On Tuesday, it reported two incidents, both involving the agent disabling or interfering with its alignmen…
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Local tech leaders willing to ‘lean into’ change as AI dominates discourse, says Ingram’s De Suza
Technology industry leaders gathered at Ingram Micro’s Executive Connect event last week displayed optimism and a willingness to lean into change rather than shy away from it, while AI remained a major topic of discussion. This is…
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DataMasque makes Asia Pacific inroads with ‘synthetically identical’ data copies
New Zealand-founded DataMasque is making inroads in the Asia Pacific (APAC) market with technology which swaps real data for ‘synthetically identical’ copies to train AI tools. The sensitive data discovery and masking platform has…
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Meta’s new commercial terms say if its AI makes a mistake, it will legally be the customer’s fault
In Meta commercial terms changes slated to kick in on 30 October, the company will shift the liability for any mistakes made by its AI models to its enterprise customers. The new language also makes those IT executives responsible…
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Gentrack secures billing software contract with Australia’s Momentum Energy
Listed utility software developer Gentrack Group has secured a contract with Australian gas and electricity retailer Momentum Energy for its cloud-based g2 billing offering. In a statement released to both New Zealand’s Stock Exch…
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Hitachi Vantara hires Yasser Elgammal to lead A/NZ channel
Hitachi Vantara has appointed former Dicker Data sales and vendor alliances head Yasser Elgammal as its channel partner and alliances director for Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ). In the new position, Elgammal will be responsible…
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SnapperNet welcomes launch of Sophos ‘shadow AI’ detection tool
A newly introduced security tool from Sophos which uncovers shadow AI use offers IT partners a practical opportunity to help their customers adopt AI with greater confidence, says local distributor SnapperNet. Sophos AI Defense wa…
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Sysdoc’s Serendata lands global partnership with SAP to address ‘transformation spaghetti’
Serendata, the technology platform arm of New Zealand-founded Sysdoc, has secured a global strategic partnership with SAP to integrate the vendor’s Signavio suite into its transformation platform. Combining SAP Signavio’s suite of…
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AI data centre capex will far exceed forecast revenue through 2030
Investors are pouring more into AI data centre infrastructure than they can hope to recoup by 2030, according to Gartner. “Enterprise and consumer AI revenue will be insufficient to support profitable returns on all planned AI cap…
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A distributor’s real value doesn’t show up on the price tag
When channel partners weigh up distributors, the conversation often starts with price. This is because price is straightforward and tangible, and is immediately reflected in the bottom line. But price alone says little about what …
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What a cockatoo can teach us about the evidence AI wasn’t built to hear
AI systems do not make decisions from reality. They make decisions from representations of reality: records, observations, measurements, histories, labels, documents, and whatever else an organisation has decided belongs in the da…
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TUANZ calls out political short-termism ahead of election
New Zealand risks squandering its vast digital and economic potential if political leaders continue to reset the nation’s technological direction every three years. This was the warning from technology leaders at the Tech Users As…
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Lenovo’s Angela Roberts on helping partners navigate challenges and opportunities
AI, the rising cost of components, an election year and global factors affecting the economy are all impacting the local channel, but for Lenovo New Zealand channel manager Angela Roberts, the focus remains clear: helping partners…
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Zoom appoints Andrew Hindmarch as APAC channel head
Zoom has appointed Andrew Hindmarch as head of channel for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Based in Singapore, Hindmarch will lead the company’s channel strategy across the region, working closely with Zoom’s network of distributo…
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Lancom’s Aimee Lin on why skilled developers matter more than ever
As AI has changed how software is built, so has the role of developers, who have gone from being code writers to technology strategists, translators and quality controllers. This is the view of Lancom Technology CTO Aimee Lin , wh…
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Datacom spends $500k a month on AI coding, but focusses on outcomes not token costs
Datacom has revealed it has close to a thousand people coding with a variety of AI tools every day – and is already spending about half a million dollars a month on tokens. However, the company is looking to count the outcomes fro…
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Local GTIA chapter a chance for NZ tech to connect to the world
The creation of the first Auckland chapter of the Global Technology Industry Association (GTIA) comes at an opportune time for the local channel as AI is set to change the sector and the wider economy. This was the message deliver…
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Cisco finds AI puts network capacity under pressure
Modernising networks early better position businesses to support AI agents, real-time applications and future innovations at scale. Those that fail to upgrade their networks could risk performance bottlenecks, security exposure, h…
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SMEs should focus on fundamentals of cyber protection as AI transforms threat landscape: Aon
With AI making cyber attacks more sophisticated, small businesses should reassess some of their assumptions about cyber risk. This is the advice from insurance firm Aon’s New Zealand cyber practice leader Duncan Morrison, who says…
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Microsoft expands incentives as partner responsibilities grow
Microsoft has rolled out a series of channel updates aimed at giving partners a bigger advisory role with customers, including greater responsibility for cost management, billing and growth. At the centre of the software giant’s l…
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ArgentEdge expands into Auckland, appoints Alan Key as chair
Australian AI consultancy ArgentEdge is accelerating its expansion into New Zealand with the opening of an Auckland office, alongside the appointment of former Dialog Information Technology founder Alan Key as chair and major shar…
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Securecom launches AI-powered managed services platform on Snowflake in New Zealand
Securecom has become the first managed security services provider (MSSP) and cloud provider in New Zealand to deploy on Snowflake’s instance in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region, paving the way for a new range of AI-enable…
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Kate Tulp takes on APAC VP role at ServiceNow
After five years of leading ServiceNow in New Zealand, Kate Tulp has been promoted to a regional role for the digital workflow management vendor – based in Singapore. Tulp, who joined ServiceNow as New Zealand country director in …
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HPE’s Rahim: Pace of change in the data centre is ‘extraordinary’
Following its record-setting third quarter , HPE said it expects cumulative AI network orders for fiscal 2026 to top $3 billion, exceeding its previous forecasts. The company also raised its fiscal 2027 networking revenue target, …
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AI intensifies focus cyber security awareness month
AI is lowering the barrier for cybercriminals, making scam detection and cyber awareness a growing priority for organisations of all sizes. That shift is driving renewed emphasis on cyber awareness and scam detection as organisati…
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Bunnings launches Google Cloud-powered AI shopping assistant
Bunnings has become the first New Zealand retailer to launch a shopping agent using Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience platform. The home improvement retailer worked with Google Cloud to develop an AI-powered…
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Deeper expertise, closer to home: What SoftwareOne and Crayon mean for New Zealand partners
For New Zealand channel partners, simply reselling technology is no longer enough. Customers are navigating complex technology environments, spanning cloud, AI, cybersecurity, data, and software. They expect channel partners to pr…
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Why a network digital twin is the missing piece for AI-era operations
Ask a software developer where they test code, and they’ll describe a staging environment, version control, and an automated regression suite. Ask a network engineer the same question, and the honest answer, more often than not, i…
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Leadership Program 2026: Raising the talent bar and forging new paths
Emerging and mid-career professionals across New Zealand’s technology channel are being encouraged to sharpen their leadership skills and prepare for the next wave of transformation at the Reseller News Leadership Program on 15 Oc…
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AMD agrees to buy World Labs to fill out its AI stack
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to buy World Labs, a developer of AI “world models” that incorporate knowledge of the physical world, to extend the AI ecosystem around its hardware to encompass areas such as robotics, simu…
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Ingram Micro Experience event to focus on customer outcomes
This year’s Ingram Micro Experience event will focus on helping New Zealand channel partners navigate rapid technology change and turn new opportunities into stronger customer outcomes. Themed “Customer Ready”, Ingram Micro Experi…
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NCSC puts focus on identifying scams for Cyber Smart Week
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is placing the focus on educating organisations and people on how to recognise and avoid falling victims to scams during next week’s Cyber Smart Week. As the cyber security environment is …
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DyFlex preparing to help local customers with AI
Following its acquisition of Bluetree last year, Australian-founded DyFlex is continuing to expand its local presence, supported by a growing customer base and ongoing investment in talent. In the year since, Bluetree has fully co…
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Is Microsoft truly serious about confronting AI’s dangers?
What’s been hiding for years is now in plain sight: AI poses a danger to humanity in a way no technology has since the atom bomb. That was made clear in July when OpenAI agents broke loose from a containment area blocked from onli…
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A/NZ sees strong demand for security and network consolidation: Cloudflare
Partners across Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) have a big opportunity to meet demand for a consolidated approach to security and networking, with Cloudflare looking to support those that are doubling down on the concept. Speakin…
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OpenAI wants you to use AI — but not to train its AI
Here’s an interesting concept: an AI company that fires people for using AI. It sounds like a strange way to run a company but there’s a real reason behind it. OpenAI has been hiring contractors who have been tasked with reading C…
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