Microsoft has named VIP as its OEM distributor after taking away the role in an RFP process around seven years ago.
Managing director Rich Marsden said his outfit had spent four years rebuilding its direct relationship with Microsoft and had now regained its official status.
He said that Microsoft spent a lot of time evaluating what we can do for them.
HPE has appointed Lewis Simmonds as its new channel sales leader responsible for its Platinum, Gold and Silver partners.
Lewis Simmonds joined the original Hewlett Packard as an account director in 2004.
Simmonds said: “I’m excited to accept the role of UK channel sales leader and to further my career with this opportunity at HPE. I’m looking forward to driving our channel forward in my new role as we scope not only for today but for the channel of the future.”
BT will now offer Dell’s Virtual Edge Platform (VEP) as part of its Dynamic Network Services product.
Apparently, the idea is that BT wants to help enterprises improve the deployment of applications and services.
BT will offer the family of networking-specific universal Customer Premises Equipment (uCPE) as converged networking, IoT and IT application platform, which it claims will help customers automate, simplify, and accelerate the flow of data for critical on-premises workloads.
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins remains confident about the networking vendor’s future, despite another quarter of declining revenues.
Revenues dipped by four per cent year on year during the three months ending 25 January to $12 billion. GAAP operating income meanwhile grew by five per cent to $3.4 billion, representing an operating margin of 28.2 percent.
This is the second quarter revenue has declined for the US networking giant and will be the third quarter in a row in which it has given negative guidance for the quarter ahead.
After cancelling its attendance at the Mobile World Congress, it seems Chipzilla is still rather scared of getting its ample bulk into an aircraft.
Intel has cancelled its channel event in Milan because of the coronavirus. While there has been a case of Kung Flu in Italy, it seems that Intel is taking no chances.
In an email sent to partners, Intel channel VP Greg Baur said the vendor had made the “difficult decision” to scrap the three-day event because a number of partners would have been unable to attend.
M-Files claims that Cloud adoption accelerated its subscription-based annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2019 by more than 100 per cent over 2018.
For those who came in late the company’s primary SaaS solution, M-Files Online, is a hybrid information management platform that allows customers to implement cloud and on-premises solutions without having to separately purchase licenses.
M-Files CEO Antti Nivala said that as the outfit moved to an SaaS and cloud-based business model in 2019, customers and partners reaped the benefits of its innovative licensing options that enable M-Files Online customers to become instantly cloud-ready and able to usethe cloud in a phased and targeted manner as they see fit.
Tin box shifter Dell has been selected to offer is customer-location IT gear to BT.
The deal means BT can offer a broad range of new managed services to help its multinational enterprise customers deploy applications and services.
Secure communications solutions outfit Armour has successfully closed its first round of outside investment of £2million from external investors, BOOST&Co.
The new investment comes at the end of Armour’s most successful year to date, with year-on-year revenue growth having more than doubled. Planned expansion in 2020 means the company are looking to hire up to 20 new people across the business. Several people have already been appointed, in product development and sales.
HP is making no comment on Xerox’s new sweeter fresher merger offer until after it has revealed its first quarter results later this month.
Xerox upped its initial offer of $22 per share made in November to $24 per share in the hope of swinging more shareholders on its side.
Normally the maker of very expensive printer ink has rushed to its PR department to respond to Xerox’s continued efforts to take control, but this time it mostly refused to comment.
Fujitsu has inked a deal with Thales to integrate the security firm’s cloud and encryption services into its own portfolio.
Thales’ Cloud Hardware Security Modules (HSM) and Key Management services will be adopted by the Japanese tech firm, with a view to bolstering its public key infrastructure (PKI) based services.
The security company’s Cloud HSM service, Data Protection on Demand, will be used by Fujitsu within its core security infrastructure in order to provide businesses with a more secure key management service.
Global channel services provider, Agilitas IT Solutions, has named the regular caddy of Women’s British Open Golf Champion as its new brand ambassador.
Harry Tyrrell started off his golfing career as a teaching professional at Hindhead, having attended the LPGA qualifying school, one of the longest-running professional sports associations in the world, along with Georgia.
Wearable technology is an emerging sub-market in the Internet of Things (IoT) theme, but is yet to establish itself in the IoT mainstream due to limited interoperability and underdeveloped self-contained functionalities, according to GlobalData beancounters
GlobalData’s Wearable Tech – Thematic Research predicts that the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19 percent between 2018 and 2023, primarily driven by smartwatches, which account for the lion’s share of the market revenue.
Social Print & Copy [SP&C], Scotland’s first social enterprise within the print and copier sector, has partnered with printing manufacturer Epson, largely thanks to its sustainability goals.
SP&C will donate profits back to the charity sector through a community grants program due to be launched later this year.
SP&C will stock and sell Epson printers due to their low-energy consumption, low waste and low costs to the customer. While their core market is print and copier solutions, SP&C will also look at widening its product offering towards large format print and projectors.
Employers across the United Kingdom advertised 170,000 job openings for information technology (IT) workers in the fourth quarter of 2019.
According to an analysis of employment and labour data by CompTIA, The fourth-quarter figure for open core IT occupations represented a one percent increase over the Q3 2019 total and accounted for about 10 percent of the 1.7 million total job openings across the UK.
CompTIA senior director for research and market intelligence Amy Carrado said the quarter-over-quarter increase was modest, but it was counter to the typical trend of a hiring slowdown in the fourth quarter.
The managed service provider (MSP) market is strong and in a position to take advantage of myriad growth opportunities, according to SolarWinds research.
The firm has shared the findings of its 2019 Trends in managed services report, which looks at what is happening in the US and Europe.
The report quoted figures from Mordor Intelligence, which forecast that global managed services spending will climb from $173 billion last year to more than $296 billion by 2023. That translates into an estimated compound annual growth rate of more than over 11 percent, which is higher than pretty much the rest of the IT market.
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