This month we lead with MediaHub Australia ’ s collaboration with Akamai solutions to boost business efficiency .

As one of the one of the largest broadcast services providers in the southern hemisphere , MediaHub has used Akamai ’ s security solutions for many years .

Now , the two companies have announced the expansion of their relationship with MediaHub opting for Akamai ’ s cloud computing platform to transition from an external web management environment to an in-house setting . demands for data center-to-data center connectivity from the region into the Philippines and growing cloud and content hosting to the data centers .

Faced with replacing its ageing SAN legacy systems , the Fijian Elections Office ( FEO ) chose a modern hyperconverged infrastructure based on Lenovo ’ s ThinkAgile HX Series with Nutanix Cloud Platform .

Asish Prakash , Manager IT infrastructure , FEO , says on p61 that with Lenovo being one of the few technology vendors with a presence in Fiji , having that ‘ face-toface ’ communication was important .

It also helped that the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series came highly recommended by local businesses .

On p56 , Alan Sweeney , CEO , MediaHub , outlines why the company ’ s scope for growth would have been limited without Akamai .

In Get to Know on p79 , David Joss , CEO , Prvidr , tells what time in tech has taught him so far – since he “ sort of fell into it ” in the 80s .

HGC has achieved a milestone Data Center Interconnect launch in the Philippines .

The new solution connects eight data centers in the Philippines as part of HGC ’ s overall vision to build digital infrastructure as a shared network philosophy in Southeast Asia .

Just a sample , then , of what ’ s inside – enjoy the read .

Have an innovative month .

Make stuff happen .

On p48 , Andrew Kwok , CEO , HGC , says the launch of DCI service comes in response to the growing

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