The Evolution of Cyclone

1984

Dove Electronics established by Murray and Sue Jones

1988

First Cyclone Branded PC sold by Dove Electronics

1993

Cyclone Computer Co Ltd spun out of Dove Electronics to allow increased focus on building high quality, locally-assembled PC’s

1994

Noel Jack establishes Cyclone’s Auckland branch

1996

Richard Morgan takes role as General Manager. Cyclone has 14 staff.

Cyclone sponsors the Tertiary IT Directors conference for the first time

2001

Tracey Thomson establishes Cyclone Wellington branch

2003

Cyclone establishes a software and licensing team including a Microsoft Partnership managed by Tracey Thomson

2009

Only NZ owned local – assembler appointed to the All of Government’s (AOG) Laptops and Desktop Contract for Government supply

2010

Cyclone becomes an Apple Authorized Reseller, employing a number of ex-Renaissance staff

Leigh Gibbard joins Cyclone, as Schools Sales Manager

2011

Cyclone establishes a Dunedin branch

2012

Cyclone ceases to locally assemble PC’s and moves all customers to multinational

2013

Professional Learning and Development (PLD) team established

2014

Cyclone sells its first Managed Services Contract

2017

Cyclone Finance established to assist parents finance a device for students at one-to-one schools

Wins TELA+ contract with Ministry of Education – the single largest notebook deployment and management contract in NZ (commenced March 2018)

2018

Cyclone establishes a National Service Desk

2019

Cyclone has 120 staff

2020

Cyclone partnered with the Ministry of Education to deploy 35,000+ computers to students as part of the Covid-19 “Working From Home”