Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) outfit DVV Solutions has signed up for a strategic managed service provider relationship with security ratings company BitSight.
The pair announced a new channel partnership agreement that will enable DVV to provide BitSight’s Security Ratings Service and add value to DVV’s Third-Party Risk Management and continuous monitoring offerings.
PwC has been fined £4.55 million after a £20 million hole was found in the accounts of IT managed services provider Redcentric.
The auditor was found by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to have shown a “serious lack of competence in conducting the statutory audit work”.
Two individuals from PwC were also fined £200,000 each – discounted to £140,000. PwC’s fine was reduced from £6.5 million.
Claudia Mortimore, deputy executive counsel to the FRC, said: “The sanctions reflect the seriousness and extent of the breaches. Professional scepticism was lacking in this audit. Had it been applied, certain material misstatements would likely have been detected. As this is the second Final Decision Notice involving PwC Leeds’ office in recent years, we have mandated that the firm supplements its ongoing monitoring and support for that office, to further improve the quality of audit work in the future.”
The errors were investigated by both the FRC and the Financial Conduct Authority.
Dutch IT service outfit Dynasource announced that Marc Duijndam(pictured) had been named CEO and startupbootcamp leader Ruud Hendriks will also be joining the Dynasource Supervisory board. Both appointments are part of Dynasource’s cunning plan for global expansion, particularly throughout the UK and US.
New CEO Marc Duijndam was CEO at Funda for over four years until 2017 and was previously responsible for the launch of Google in BENELUX.
New Supervisory Board Member Ruud Henriks was a member of the Executive Board of Endemol and is now co-founder of Startupbootcamp.
Former CEO, Paul White steps up to support the Supervisory Board.
British software and services company Advanced has revealed that partner community revenues recognised as a direct result of the sale of its products are estimated more than £35 million.
The announcement is a year after the launch of its partner programme, TruePartner.
The company said its channel partners had delivered over 120 new customers, which mean that, collectively, around 60 per cent of all their customers are now using Advanced products.
Advanced’s Channel Sales Director, Dean McGlone, has said that the Cloud, and arrival of the Generation Z cohort in the workforce have helped drive its channel sales. He explained: “The Cloud has now reached a tipping point, with the adoption of Cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and finance applications experiencing a significant growth period. What’s more, we have seen the Cloud push out older, more traditional technology formats as Generation Z workers enter employment.
UK SMEs are not interested in cloud technology, mostly down to them lacking knowledge about what it can do.
Numbers crunched by Close Brothers have revealed that 58 percent of UK SMEs do not used cloud-based computing for software, storage or other remote services.
Not only are that many not using the cloud for those purposes but a third of SMEs claimed that they did not use hosted technology at all.
IBM is launching a new 23-month apprenticeship to plug the skills gap in the UK.
The Business Partner Apprenticeship programme provides participants with the opportunity to work in the sales teams of its UK partners, from VARs to born-in-the-cloud companies. The programme will see the apprentices work with partners to sell IBM offerings to their customers.
The full-time apprentices will finish the programme with a Level 2 IT Technical Services diploma, giving participants the qualifications and practical experience needed to succeed in technology sales.
UK mobile security outfit Nine23 is partnering with US SyncDog to let mobile workforces to access cloud-based collaboration tools from their own devices with a higher level of security.
The pair are peddling FLEXContainer which combines Office 365 email client, calendar, contacts, Dropbox, SharePoint with an architecture that securely protects the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) end users through FIPS 140-2, AES 256-bit encryption.
There have been several huge shifts within the IT channel over the last couple of years as companies have had to adapt their go-to-market models to meet customer demands and companies must evolve their channel strategies, according to Becyrpt’s channel specialist.
Jo-anne Holliday said that IT distribution plays a vital role alongside channel partners in helping their end customers achieve their digital transformation goals. In many ways, distribution provides the value-added services needed to compete in today’s complex IT marketplace – something that’s reflected in the sector’s continued growth.
Security specialist Adarma, previously known as ECS Security, has spun out of the ECS Group.
The business will be spearheaded by David Calder and Nathan Dornbrook, with backing from Livingbridge. The company was was around for nearly 20 years, and Adarma has 250 staff and a strong enterprise customer base. The firm provides a range of security services, including SOC design, build and operation.
David Calder, MD and co-founder of Adarma, said that it had wanted to strike out on its own to have an increased focus on the security space.
Tollring has released its hybrid iCall Suite analytics and call recording solution into its channel.
MiVoice Business and Panasonic NS700 phone systems, with Avaya IP Office coming soon. The cloud solution connects to on-premises PBX equipment, providing channel partners another opportunity to talk to their customers and provide a product with all of the benefits of iCall Suite’s online services when they are not yet able or willing to upgrade their cloud telephony.
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Cloudy data outfit Rubrik has been selected by the University of Reading to protect more than 90 percent of its environment including Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Exchange, as well as Nutanix and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines.
Rubrik’s solution has already allowed the university to completely migrate off tape, archive to public cloud, and significantly speed up SQL data recovery.
AI-powered P2P risk management outfit Fiscal has a new partnership with business software outfit Advanced.
The partnership will enable Advanced’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Financial Management solution customers to strengthen their Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) fraud and risk protection with Fiscal’s stuff.
Canon UK and Ireland will be relocating its head office in Reigate to Uxbridge potentially threatening 450 jobs.
The headquarters, found off Cockshot Hill, Woodhatch , will move after a decision by multinational company to “address efficiency improvements” and outsource finance, business operations and customer service.
Canon has stated this decision means the Reigate office “will have significant over capacity for future requirements”.
A report prepared by Ericsson seems to show that 5G uptake will be faster than expected.
Rapid early momentum and enthusiasm for 5G have led Ericsson to forecast an extra 400 million enhanced mobile broadband subscriptions globally by the end of 2024. The June 2019 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report forecasts 1.9 billion 5G subscriptions – up from 1.5 billion forecasted in the November 2018 edition – an increase of almost 27 percent.
Ingram Micro UK Director Cloud and Advanced Solutions Scott Murphy has warned that while digital transformation is driving the market only 22 percent of channel partners are ready.
Murphy said that digital transformation is the top priority for most UK businesses – including the channel partners who serve them. And in many ways, cloud technology lies at the heart of the transformation journey.
Ingram asked 250 UK-based cloud end users from a variety of mid-market and enterprise organisations, alongside 50 cloud resellers themselves, compiling their answers into a white paper: ‘The intelligent future of cloud’ and discovered that while there is a huge opportunity out there for channel partners – it’s being lost.
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