Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is teaming up with Lenovo by integrating Lattice’ CrossLink-NX FPGAs and AI-optimised software into Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 portfolio.
Vice President of Segment Marketing and Business Development at Lattice Semiconductor, Matt Dobrodziej, said: “We are proud of this collaboration with Lenovo that resulted in exciting user experiences offering smarter human-computer engagement, privacy, collaboration, and better energy management.”
Rural businesses in parts of England have shown remarkable resilience during COVID-19 by innovating and adapting in response to the severe economic challenges of the pandemic, according to a major new survey from the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE).
More than a third of rural firms in the North East, South West and West Midlands diversified their business in the wake of Covid with half of these developing new sales channels and two-thirds expanding their customer base.
Ana Paula Assis has been appointed general manager for IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)succeeding Marta Martínez Alonso, who is retiring from IBM after 19 years as a suit.
Assis will be responsible for the business operations, driving revenue growth, client satisfaction, and employee engagement across EMEA.
Cohesity has hired Kirk Law as senior vice president of R&D where he will have global responsibility for engineering, product management and Cohesity’s ecosystem business.
The tech veteran brings over 30 years of relevant experience to Cohesity with a passion for developing products.
Law said: “We will continue to deliver next-gen solutions that can help organisations radically simplify data management, improve their security postures in the face of sophisticated ransomware attacks, benefit from AI-powered insights, and do more with data, which is their most valuable digital asset.”
Yes, it’s M&A time again. Rugged solutions reseller Renovotec has snapped up wireless and mobility specialist Jade Solutions.
Castleford-based Renovotec claims it is now the “largest consultative company in its industry” following the acquisition, which boosts its headcount to 160 staff across the UK and continental Europe and worth a cool £50 million.
Ecommerce business outfit Tactus Group has acquired PC gaming brand Chillblast.
Located in Poole, Dorset, Chillblast is the official PC supplier of Williams eSports and provider of VR technology used in RAF Air Cadet training simulators. It is an Intel Platinum Member and Microsoft Silver OEM Partner.
Distie Westcon-Comstor has signed a new distribution agreement with Nokia.
The move will see Westcon-Comstor gaining access to the Nokia industry-grade private wireless solution – Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC)
Palo Alto Networks has appointed former Orange Business Services CEO Helmut Reisinger to the position of CEO for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Reisinger led a global organisation of 28,000 employees supporting the digital transformation of enterprise customers around the world. Before joining Orange Business Services in 2007, Reisinger held leadership positions across Europe at Avaya, NextiraOne Germany and Alcatel Austria.
Harris has acquired the i2 intelligence analysis product portfolio of IBM, including the i2 Analyst’s Notebook, i2 Enterprise Insight Analysis (EIA) and i2 iBase platforms. The acquisition is part of Harris’ cunning plan to get into the defence, state & local law enforcement, maritime security as well as evidence management markets.
Beancounters at IDC have been adding up some markets and noticed that the global demand for PC monitors has run out of steam.
The market has declined by 7.2 pe cent compared to the same quarter in 2020. IDC has concluded that the global demand for PC monitors is “cooling” following five consecutive quarters of year-over-year shipment growth.
IDC has attributed the decline to “softening in consumer demand” in North American and Western European markets, as well as supply constraints and changing spending priorities.
Recent Telehouse research showed that already more than two-thirds of UK IT decision-makers have implemented a strategy for edge.
The outfit thinks that as we move into 2022, and 5G is deployed more widely, we will see even greater demand for edge data centres and an increase in acquisitions, mergers and the launch of new data centres across the UK.
Edge computing, delivered from this fast-emerging network will provide the capacity to support smart cities, and a latency of less than one millisecond.
The report said that despite challenges from hyperscalers, the colocation market will continue to thrive in 2022. Telehouse research shows that 99 percent of UK enterprise IT decision-makers are using colocation, with 40 percent of enterprise IT infrastructure outsourced.
Oracle has snapped up the digital medical records business Cerner for $28.3 billion an all-cash tender offer for $95 per share and the transaction is expected to close in 2022.
For those who came in late, Cerner is a leading provider of digital information systems used within hospitals and health systems to enable medical professionals to deliver better healthcare to individual patients and communities. Oracle said the company has more than 40 years of experience in modernising electronic health records, improving caregiver experience, and streamlining and automating clinical and administrative workflows.
Human resource products outfit Kronos has confirmed its Kronos Private Cloud has been hit with ransomware that has knocked some of its services offline.
The global supplier of business software said that all its products had been hit. Bob Hughes, executive vice president at Kronos addressed customers on Monday saying the incident was indeed ransomware-related.
Hughes also said “it may take up to several weeks to restore system availability” and that customers should take additional measures to ensure the smooth running of their business while the outage persists. We are working with leading cyber security experts to assess and resolve the situation, and have notified the authorities,” said Hughes. “The investigation remains ongoing, as we work to determine the nature and scope of the incident”, he said.
Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and reached the conclusion that the European public cloud market is growing at a double-digit pace
The analyst estimates the public cloud supply chain contributed almost $500 billion to European GDP.
Writing in its Public Cloud’s Contribution to the European Economy: A Macroeconomic Approach report IDC said this has significantly increased over the past two years, with a spike in 2020 due to the digitisation journey that many organisations undertook during the pandemic.
IDC research analyst, European cloud and multi-cloud management, Filippo Vanara said that for the past five years, the public cloud market has significantly changed the IT industry and grown like no other segment of the European IT market.
Sage has spent £225 million acquiring the remaining stake in SaaS vendor Brightpearl.Brightpearl is an SaaS vendor which offers a retail management system to retailers and wholesalers to give real-time business insights and help customers automate workflows.
The business will combine with Sage Intact to combine financial management, inventory planning, sales order management, purchasing and supplier management, CRM, fulfilment, warehousing and logistics management.
Brightpearl expects to generate £20 million in revenues for the 12 months ending December 2021, which would represent a 50 percent increase on the previous year. Its operating profit will break even during the same time frame, Sage claims.
The deal is expected to close in January 2022.
Sage CEO Steve Hare said that together, Sage and Brightpearl will remove the barriers that hold back retailers and wholesalers, streamlining their systems and enabling them to focus on growth.
“I’m delighted to welcome Brightpearl, its management team and colleagues to Sage, and look forward to executing on our strategic priorities together and delivering accelerated growth”, he said.
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