HPE has had its servers certified for sustainability to ensure that its channel partners can include a green element in customer pitches.
HPE is now TCO Certified for sustainability and met the criteria in the touch data centre product category. It means that the hardware is sustainable even after having its lifecycle, including supply chain responsibility and hazardous substances assessed.
TCO Development CEO Sören Enholm said that his organisation spent more than 20,000 hours verifying products and the factories where they’re made according to the criteria in TCO Certified.
LogicMonitor has added 11 new partners to its Partner Network as part of its expansion plans.
Eight partners are located in Europe, a region where cloud computing is expected to grow exponentially in the next few years.
New LogicMonitor partners in Europe include Amasol in Germany, CDW in the UK, Corporate Finance International (CFI) in Switzerland, Exccon AG in Germany, KAEMI in Germany, Netsecurity AS in Norway, Proact in Europe and the US, and SoftwareOne in The Netherlands. Additional partners joining the LogicMonitor Global Partner Network outside of Europe include Arvensys Technologies in Australia, Total eBiz Solutions in Singapore, and Xylex Technologies in the US.
HeleCloud, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner based in the UK, Bulgaria and the Netherlands, announced the appointment of Walter Heck as Group Chief Technology Officer.
Heck’s appointment comes after a strong year of growth for HeleCloud, with the company recording a 70 percent revenue growth ratein 2020 while also adding more than 30AWS consultants and engineers.
In his role as CTO, Heck will be primarily responsible for maintaining this growth by expanding HeleCloud’s technical offerings to its customers and working to attract the best AWS consultants.
HeleCloud completed the acquisition of Cloud-native software development company DataStork, enabling HeleCloud to expand its expertise into the Cloud-native software development and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ ML) space. Heck will be responsible for ensuring these capabilities are integrated with HeleCloud’s existing professional and managed service offerings.
Web hosting business, Miss Group, has appointed David Nordberg to be its chief marketing officer to support its growth plans.
Nordberg joins the Perwyn-backed business from gaming and e-sports platform, G-Loot, and a board position with e-sports app, Strafe. He brings more than 20 years’ experience in building international brands, cross-functional teams and new business models for a range of fast-growth online businesses.
His appointment follows a strong period of growth for the Group, which completed two acquisitions in March 2021 – Seravo and MMD Networks. So far Miss Group has swallowed up 14 companies since 2018, with five completed under Perwyn-ownership since February 2020.
Armour Comms and Bittium have teamed up to provide a NATO approved secure communications solution.
The new solution which runs on Bittium’s Tough Mobile 2 series of ruggedised and secure smartphones ensures voice and video conversations, and the associated files and attachments, stay completely private, no matter how hostile the environment.
A Forrester Consulting report, commissioned by Datto, claims that MSPs which use its tools to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) enjoyed an average of more than $100,000 in business growth annually.
Forrester found that those using the range of tools Datto provides, including PSA and RMM, delivered approximately $792,000 in benefits, including 50 per cent improved productivity on work orders, and a reduction of 90 percent in downtime incidents.
Obviously, another thing in the report that atto is keen to highlight is the average return on investment (ROI) of 256 percent in a three-year period, with the platform paying for itself in less than six months.
Hybrid IT services Ensono has sold itself to investment giant KKR in a deal worth $1.7 billion.
Ensono claims KKR’s technology experience and resources will help it achieve “new heights” in the managed services industry for medium and large enterprises.
Under the deal will see KKR acquire the MSP business from existing investors Charlesbank Capital Partners and M/C Partners. Ensono claims the deal is expected to close within the next 60 days and will be financed through KKR’s Americas X11 fund.
Beancounters at ISG say that the European market for IT and business services is doing well with record demand for cloud-based services in the first quarter and continued strength in managed services,
The EMEA ISG Index, which measures commercial outsourcing contracts with annual contract value (ACV) of US $5 million, shows ACV for the combined market, which includes both as-a-service and managed services, reached US $6 billion, up 20 percent year on year, but off five per cent from a record fourth quarter.
Cloud-based as-a-service ACV reached a quarterly record of $2.5 billion, up 16 percent versus the prior year. Within this segment, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) climbed 19 percent, to a record $1.8 billion, while software-as-a-service (SaaS) rose nine percent, to a record $658 million.
Managed services, meanwhile, produced its second straight strong quarter, with ACV of US $3.5 billion, up 23 percent year on year, fuelled by growth in both IT outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) and strong results in the UK, France and DACH. ITO was up 17 percent year on year, to $3.0 billion, on strength in both ADM and infrastructure services, while BPO surged 66 percent, to $521 million, on strong demand for industry-specific, finance and accounting, and engineering and R&D services.
Biggish Blue has decided to give its infrastructure spinoff a name that sounds a bit like a skincare product for nappy rash.
Kyndryl, which will be kinder to all your kinder’s itchy skin, is the name of IBM’s Managed Infrastructure Services business which is to become a fully-fledged public company by the end of this year.
The marketers say that the name is a combination of the words ‘kinship’ and ‘tendril’ which sounds even less appetising unless you are a company designed by HP Lovecraft.
Datech has launched an online service, called Renew Online, which enables reseller partners to provide a self-service option for end-user customers renewing their AutoCAD subscription licences.
The Renew Online function is designed to help partners automate their “tech touch” customers that have a very small number of AutoCAD licenses. Renew Online can be used by partners to drive a series of automated email reminders, highlighting the benefits and value of the software, and reminding them they are due to renew soon. End-user customers are able to update their AutoCAD licenses online and pay immediately using a credit card.
West Yorkshire-based gaming PC builder CCL Computers has been acquired by consumer tech group Tactus in an £11.25 million private equity-backed deal.
Tactus said the deal will create a £125 million business while bolstering its position in the fast-growing PC gaming space.
CCL’s e-commerce capabilities will hand Tactus – which specialises in sourcing, branding and supplying multi-branded Windows 10 devices and wearable tech via retailers including John Lewis and Amazon – its first direct route into consumers.
More than half of UK workers have felt happier over the past year as a result of working from home, according to a study commissioned by Avaya.
The Life and Work Beyond 2020 study, conducted by research firm Davies Hickman Partners, polled 10,000 consumers and workers in 11 countries to discover the impacts of COVID-19 on consumer wellbeing and values as the world embraces a new world of work.
The research found that workers in the UK are among the most appreciative of work-from-anywhere models, with 44 percent saying that the ability to conduct hybrid work – from a home or office – would contribute to their happiness. The survey also revealed that over half UK workers feel they have the right technology to work from wherever they want. However, the UK has some catching up to do as it trails in 6th place behind India, where 73 percent consider themselves to be equipped for remote working as well as the UAE with 64 percent and the US with 62 percent.
A key finding is that only 30 percent of UK employees said that they loved the idea of being able to work from anywhere in the future, meaning that a key requirement for business success in 2021 and beyond will be building a hybrid model of work that suits the needs of every employee.
Hyland, a content services provider, has completed its acquisition of Nuxeo, a content services platform and digital asset management (DAM) provider.
The acquisition brings the entire Nuxeo business, including products and technology, under Hyland.
Following Hyland’s acquisition of Alfresco last year, the addition of Nuxeo reinforces Hyland’s cunning plan to push into cloud-native platforms and open-source communities while expanding its global footprint with additional team members, customers and partners.
Fulcrum Technology Group has bought Pure which it says will operate with its existing management team and give it the muscle to go after more business in the UK.
Pure Technology Group CEO Stephen O’Brien said Fulcrum’s pitch to buy the company was different and it had a bigger strategy in play, which will propel Pure into the top echelon of UK IT service providers.
“We also share many values, which will only enhance what is truly special about our business – our people, our culture and our service. For all of us, and our customers and partners too, this is a tremendous opportunity.”
Beancounters at Gartner have added up some numbers and reached the conclusion that IT spending is set to rebound in 2021.
Global IT spending will reach $4 trillion in 2021, Gartner claims, an increase of 8.4 percent on the previous year.
Spending on devices is set to rocket by 14 pe cent this year to $755.8 billion. Enterprise software is the second-fastest-growing segment this year with spending set to grow by 10.8 percent to $571.7 billion. IT services spending will grow nine percent to 1.2 trillion, claims Gartner, data centre systems by 7.7 percent to 247.5 billion and communications services by 4.6 percent to $1.45 trillion
Gartner research VP John-David Lovelock said IT spending will move away from the “knee-jerk” spending seen last year.
HPE has had its servers certified for sustainability to ensure that its channel partners can include a green element in customer pitches.
