UK-based secure cloud services provider, Six Degrees, today announced a management shakeup as part of its growth plans.
From 1st May 2021, current CEO, David Howson, will become Chairperson of the Board and Simon Crawley-Trice, currently Practice Group Managing Director, will assume the role of CEO.
IoT connectivity outfit Eseye has added India’s national virtual network operator (VNO) Plintron, to its AnyNet Federation.
The move means that IoT devices using Eseye’s AnyNet+ eSIM can connect and localise in India with full compliance. Plintron uses India’s fourth-largest mobile network operator (MNO), the state-owned BSNL network, which has strong network coverage, in particular outside the main urban areas.
Research released today by Agilitas IT Solutions has revealed that optimism and confidence in the channel’s future remain high despite a challenging year.
The outfit’s Channel Confidence Index 2021 said that decision-makers give an overall confidence score of 7.4 out of a possible 10.
Marketing Director of Agilitas, Richard Eglon (pictured) said decision-makers across the channel were asked to rate their feelings of confidence on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being very pessimistic, 10 being very optimistic) in response to various topics.
Wipro is rolling out a “digital experience platform” for Bristol Water to help modernise the outfit’s critical infrastructure.
Wipro will develop a new cloud-based solution with instant release, high security, low maintenance and integrate with Bristol Water’s existing systems through a bespoke Application Programming Interface (API). This allows Bristol Water to stay ahead of regulatory requirements and enhance its customer and developer experience.
New research has found that security is the most significant concern for IT professionals considering, or are already using, multi-cloud strategies – topping the list of worries amongst both US and UK respondents.
Cloudy Ensono released new research into the wide array of challenges facing US and UK IT leaders’ multi-cloud strategy. After security, UK IT leaders’ top fears for their multi-cloud strategy were governance and cost optimisation.
US respondents were more worried about cost optimisation and maintaining a positive end-user experience next on the list.
SoftwareONE is working with Microsoft to speed digital transformation for Non Profit Organisations (NPOs) worldwide.
The move is part of a cunning plan to enable NPOs to deploy leading-edge, innovative technology to have a greater impact on the world’s most critical social issues.
SoftwareONE’s global dedicated ONEImpact team offers digitalisation and transformation solutions to enable its +3,000 non-profit customers to adapt to an increasingly digital world.
ONEImpact, it is claimed makes it easy for NPOs to access Microsoft enterprise-grade technology at low or no-entry costs while offering a wide variety of services, advice and support to NPO IT teams who are typically understaffed and overstretched.
Panasonic has snapped up digital fulfilment platform outfit Blue Yonder.
The move will mix Panasonic’s strength in industrial engineering, IoT and edge technologies with Blue Yonder’s AI/ML-driven supply chain and commerce solutions
Rubrik, a cloud data management ompany, is extending its partnership with the cloudy NetApp software company, to offer closer product integration for their customers and partners.
With this spruced up collaboration and Rubrik’s leading Cloud Data Management Platform to be available on NetApp’s Global Price List (GPL), the two market-leading companies claim it can simplify customers’ transition to the cloud and provide modern data protection, security, compliance, and governance alongside high-density and cost-efficient object storage.
Tech Data has added to its growing portfolio of retail and consumer products by signing a distribution partnership with Vivo, one of the fastest-growing manufacturers of smartphones. The agreement allows retailers and website customers to take full advantage of Tech Data’s unrivalled services and support in taking the Vivo range of Android devices to market.
Vivo’s 6.51-inch Y20 Android smartphone was one of the best-selling devices of last year and is one of three Vivo devices available from Tech Data immediately – the others are the higher-specification Y70 and the X51 5G device.
Storage outfit Infinidat started its new channel accreditation programme which it claims will “equip and advance” its global channel partners.
The new programme will offer multiple education tracks for its accreditation process, while the company’s online training options have been revamped and extended to cover a broad range of content.
Infinidat said this accreditation will help improve the ability of partners to address the evolving and complex needs of enterprise customers that use its storage solutions.
Infinidat channel sales director Hanan Altif, said: “Channel partners are highly important to Infinidat, and we continue to invest in their success. Our new accreditation program is designed to help partners with new deals and drive business growth.”
Through the Infinidat Accreditation Program, partners now have the opportunity to demonstrate to end-user enterprise customers that they have been fully trained, tested and accredited to sell Infinidat’s storage offerings.
Tanium has scored a contract with the University of Salford has used the Tanium Platform to strengthen its defence against a surge of cyberattacks targeting the education sector.
Tanium worked with the university to help it overcome several challenges that have emerged over the last year. It faced a rise in the number of cybercrime threats, such as ransomware as well as nation-state attacks launched in an attempt to steal COVID-19 research data.
Security outfit Avast has partnered with Recorded Future delivering intelligence on common vulnerabilities and exploit prevalence (CVE) while Recorded Future contributes to its real-time intelligence reports.
The Recorded Future Intelligence Platform, it’s claimed, gives global organisations the ability to accelerate detection, decision making, and response times by putting real-time intelligence at the centre of security workflows and sending daily threat intelligence reports to its customers.
The insights from reports allow enterprises to prioritise alerts, calculate risk scores for patching, and make better decisions on how to handle a threat or cybersecurity incident – through a single, source of security intelligence.
While more than 64 percent of UK enterprises invested in improving digital customer interaction during the pandemic, over half believe their short-term fixes won’t be fit for the long term.
A survey of 100 enterprise IT leaders, commissioned by Macro 4, suggests the pandemic accelerated many organisations’ plans to improve their customer communications technology. But IT chiefs recognise that more work is needed.
Almost all of the sample believed that their organisation needs to improve how it communicates with customers. And 91 percent saw technology as the instrument.
Underlying the main findings, 81 percent of IT leaders agree that the need to react quickly to the pandemic has forced organisations to fast-track technology changes – but 72 percent feel that over the next year they will have to invest in upgrading or replacing some of that technology.
Performanta has snapped up Microsoft Gold Security Partner and Identity & Access Management (IAM) specialist Identity Experts as part of its cunning plan to extend security capabilities across its Microsoft portfolio.
The takeover will allow the Maidenhead-based MSSP to extend and improve security capabilities further across the Microsoft portfolio, including products such as Azure AD, Sentinel, ATP, O365 and IAM.
Performanta CEO and co-founder Guy Golan said that with Identity Experts, his outfit could address the mounting security challenges and plug a critical gap in the market, especially amongst clients with a Microsoft-focused security roadmap.
Lenovo and Nutanix are rolling out desktop as a service (DaaS) as punters demand changes in the way that workplace tools are delivered after the coronavirus.
TruScale is Lenovo’s first offering for hosted desktops with Nutanix. Customers choose a range of devices, ranging from thin clients desktop PCs to virtual desktops that will come with a choice of Citrix or other virtual desktop environments, plus ThinkAgile HX Series from Nutanix. Partners can then offer it as a managed service, with users getting a monthly price.
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