MSP SysGroup has snapped up Hub Networks is a managed connectivity and co-location solutions provider for £1.45 million.
Adam Binks, CEO, SysGroup, said that its second acquisition of the year fitted in with its strategy: “The acquisition of HNS further complements our existing managed services, enabling us to offer our customer base an even wider range of enterprise-grade managed connectivity services alongside our existing managed IT services portfolio.
Iron Mountain data centre facilities in Amsterdam and London have signed up for Unitas Global cloud access connectivity platform.
Iron Mountain Frank Scalzo, General Manager Network Strategy and Service, said that Unitas Global’s access connectivity platform will bring clients new efficiencies.
Cinos Communications Services (CCS) has become the first Cisco 2 tier partner to deliver a Full Service Coverage/Service First contract in the UK and Ireland.
The agreement with long-term social enterprise customer Provide CIC, takes away the requirement to purchase support at the point of sale.
Companies will die unless they transform their approach to technology innovation, a CBI-Oracle report has found
A joint report from CBI and Oracle – ‘Bigger, Faster, Stronger’ has found that being a big company is no longer enough. Many larger businesses are struggling to transform digitally and are suffering.
Businesses in the UK are holding back on SD-WAN deployment because of unfounded myths surrounding the technology, according to a new study by Cogeco Peer 1.
The main myths identified are security concerns (42 per cent ), cost concerns (38 per cent ) and a fear of disruption to day-to-day business (35 per cent ). This is followed by worry about a lack of skills to implement (34 per cent ) and being worried about a lack of understanding around the technology (26 per cent ).
The study, questioned 300 UK based IT decision-makers across the education, financial services, and retail sectors, found that the education sector (47 per cent ) is the most concerned about security issues, followed by retail (43 per cent ) and financial services (36 per cent ).
For IT decision-makers, the following priorities were revealed for the next 12 months:
The study found that businesses understand the role SD-WAN can play in their digital transformation, with 74 per cent of respondents believing the technology is crucial to enabling the process. It is also seen as the future of connectivity, with 77 per cent of respondents believing it will ultimately take over the WAN landscape in the future.
Tom Adams, Director of Product Marketing at Cogeco Peer 1, said: “There are clearly a number of perceived risks around SD-WAN that are preventing UK businesses from realising its benefits. It is time for the technology industry to come together and educate UK businesses about the potential SD-WAN brings. If the industry doesn’t unite, there is a danger that businesses will be left behind and unable to remain competitive.”
Dave Tracey, EMEA channel sales manager at Cogeco Peer 1, said: “The technology industry is often seen as at the cutting edge in delivering future benefits and implementing new ideas. However, the myths surrounding SD-WAN are stifling UK business growth and harming their chances of success. Vendors and channel partners must work together to prove these myths wrong and educate organisations on the technology’s benefits. It is also clear that SD-WAN packages need to come with consultancy and support to unlock the technology’s potential.”
Veritas has launched an Enterprise Data Services Platform, which draws together several products to meet its vision of protecting data as well as making it available and generating insights into the information for customers.
The idea is to encourage partners to look beyond just data protection to add more management tools.
Veritas VP of EMEA channels Jamie Farrelly said that the vision behind the platform was to help meet customer data issues around dealing with growth and increasing complexity.
The idea was to make it easier for partners to expand the data management conversation with users so they can have an understanding of what that data is. Rather than working with multiple vendors, the Platform brings it together.
Dutch no-code development platform outfit Betty Blocks has set up a UK channel programme.
The outfit set up shop six months ago and wants partners that are looking to speed up application development for users. So far it has already attracted Holygrow.
Tom Oudhuis, vp of partner & channel management at Betty Blocks said that the outfit was wanting its first wave of channel partners – leading companies in the software development, digital transformation and business acceleration space.
Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and concluded that while IT infrastructure spending is slowing actual revenue is rising.
Non-cloud infrastructure sales are continuing to decline and any money being spent is going on servers, storage products and Ethernet switches for hosted environments.
However prominent hardware vendors and their channel partners will get to see cloud infrastructure revenues continue to increase and it is predicting that while total spending on cloud IT infrastructure by 4.5 per cent this year in response to slow growth in the market, somehow vendors will keep coining it in.
The Cancer research UK charity will adopt Ideagen’s Q-Pulse and PleaseReview applications for quality management and document review and collaboration
Ideagen will see the company supply it with two of its software applications.
Cancer Research UK will implement Ideagen’s Q-Pulse and PleaseReview products.
Google’s recent Cloud outage shows that many punters would be better off with smaller niche providers.
Earlier this month, Google Cloud experienced an outage which not only affected Google’s products like Gmail and YouTube – other businesses using Google Cloud, such as Shopify, Discord, and Snap were also disturbed.
Later in the month, Google Calendar went down, creating new incentives to Cloud, dedicated server and IP address provider, Heficed’s CEO Vincentas Grinius, said the outage proves that one size does not fit all and personalised solutions, better customer support, and the ability to rapidly adapt to the changing landscape were good reasons for businesses choose alternative providers.
Hotelbeds has partnered with HotelRunner – a sales channel management platform and B2B network for OTAs and hotels.
Under the deal HotelRunner increases its connectivity partnership program by helping its 35,000 hotel, hostel and vacation rental partners reach the over 60,000 travel trade buyers that use the Hotelbeds booking platform – including tour operators, travel agencies, airlines and points redemption schemes in over 185 source markets.
MSP Datto has announced several key leadership positions including a new Chief Sales Officer, Managing Director of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Customer Experience Officer (CXO).
Sanjay Singh was named as Chief Sales Officer. Singh brings more than 20 years of operational and general management experience and is focused on growing the business across the globe.
Rubrik, the Cloud Data Management company, today announced it had been selected by Coventry University to protect its user and research data across Nutanix, Microsoft and AWS environments.
The university will use Rubrik Polaris, the industry’s first SaaS platform for Data Management Applications, which includes GPS for global data management and Radar for quick ransomware recovery.
Sports are becoming a lucrative field for vendors as venues searching for new and inventive ways to attract fans to events and engage them during games through digital technology.
According to Extreme Networks, there is a pile of technology that a digitalised sports event needs and venues could be just waiting for the right pitch.
John Brams, Director, Hospitality, Sports and Entertainment, Extreme Networks said: “Mobile connectivity is at the heart of today’s game day experience. If you don’t design your network with the ‘second screen’ in mind, your fans won’t stay ‘fans’ for long.”
Former maker of expensive printer ink HPE has promised to offer its entire product portfolio as a service by 2022.
The vendor said the move is part of its “transition into an as-a-service company”, in a move which will let customers buy on a consumption basis through its GreenLake offering.
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