Sasha Karen is a senior journalist at ARN, where she is nationally recognized for her insightful reporting on technology and business. With a decade of experience, Sasha focuses on themes such as AI, machine learning, and cloud computing, providing valuable news and inspiration to the local channel community. She has been featured in Channel Asia, Reseller News NZ, and ARN - Channel News.
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Sasha Karen's coverage predominantly focuses on national (Australia) technology and telecommunications sectors, with a significant emphasis on private sector announcements and press releases. She would likely be most responsive to pitches related to new appointments, company milestones, product launches or major deals within the Australian tech industry.
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By: Sasha Karen
Microsoft partner LAB3 has hired John Gavallas to lead what the company has stated will be the “next evolution” of its managed services practices. As managed services executive, Gavallas will see the business accelerate the adoption of agent-driven automation and AI-powered operations for enterprise clients. He enters the role with over 20 years of experience […]
By: Sasha Karen
DXN has scored a contract with the owner of Melbourne Airport worth around $4.1 million for a prefabricated edge data centre facility, expanding its presence in the aviation and transport infrastructure industry. Announced via a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), the contract will see DXN design, engineer, manufacture, test, deliver, and install a […]
By: Sasha Karen
Megaport has secured three infrastructure contracts via its recent Latitude.sh acquisition valued at a total of US$359.4 million (A$506.2 million) while also posting an “exceptional” result for its 2026 financial year. The contracts are aimed at GPU and CPU compute, network, and storage capacity, which provide support for AI applications and inference workloads, for customers […]
By: Sasha Karen
Excite Technology Services has recorded growth within its Excite Cyber business, highlighting sales across both government and private sectors, as well as demand for AI-powered solutions increasing. In an announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Excite said based on its current sales pipeline, contracted revenue and operating cost structure, the managed security service provider […]
TPG Telecom experienced strong financial growth of over the six months to 30 June, with its CEO, Iñaki Berroeta, noting the success came from mobile services revenue, among other factors. During its first half of its 2026 financial year, TPG said its group service revenue reached $2.07 billion, up 0.5 per cent, due to growth […]
Australian AI infrastructure startup SouthernCrossAI (SCX.ai) has listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) following the completion of its initial public offering (IPO) which raised a gross $40 million. Trading under the ticker SCX, the startup’s CEO and co-founder, David Keane, said in a statement to the ASX the startup was confident it has the […]
By: Sasha Karen
Aussie Broadband has finished off its 2026 financial year with growth across the board, reporting revenue growth of 9.2 per cent, rising to nearly $1.3 billion, for the 12 months ending 30 June. During the period, underlying earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) rose 19.6 per cent, to $165.3 million, while net profit […]
By: Sasha Karen
Data#3 has capped off another year of growth, posting record FY26 gross sales of $3.4 billion, up 12.7 per cent year on year. This is up from FY25’s gross sales of $3 billion, and is higher than the expected industry average, with Gartner previously forecasting IT spending would rise 8.9 per cent during 2026. In […]
Barracuda has acknowledged the efforts of its top-performing partners from Australia at its annual Partner Awards for the Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) region. Presented in Melbourne as part of the Barracuda A/NZ Partner Summit, the awards are given to organisations and partners that drive growth and helping customers achieve cyber resiliency through “innovation, service […]
Schneider Electric has celebrated its elite cohort of Australian partners for the 2026 financial year at its Channel Partner Awards. Presented during its Innovation Day 2026 event at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney, the awards recognise its best and brightest across distributors, channel partners, and individuals for performance, growth, innovation, technical capability and contribution to […]
