Category: News

Boston distributes Nvidia Rapids

Boston announced the first European offering for Nvidia Rapid test drives.

The move brings Nvidia Rapids, a suite of open-source software libraries giving data scientists the freedom to execute end-to-end data science and analytics pipelines entirely on GPU. The result is a cluster of Nvidia T4 GPU-optimised servers running a variety of Rapids frameworks available to customer and data scientists looking to accelerate and scale out their frameworks working in Python.

Server revenues doing ok

Beancounters at IDC have noted that while server numbers are down, sales revenues are doing OK thanks to higher ASPs.

A review of the global server market from IDC found that although demand had dropped year-on-year in first quarter by 5.1 percent the higher unit prices improved revenue by 4.4 percent.

Low-end and mid-range servers fared much better than higher-end products, which suffered a 24.7 percent decline, a second consecutive quarter of decline.

HFX partners with Selenity

Cloud Workforce Management outfit HFX , has announced a partnership with Selenity a supplier of expense management software, HR case management and workflow solutions, and staff contract management.

The pair will supply a range of solutions that save time and boost compliance across the HR and Finance departments, managing time and expenses.

Daisy turns into Allvotec

Daisy Partner Services has transformed itself into Allvotec and opens for business today with its headquarters in Northampton.

The indirect company has ambitious plans for the future, CEO Glen Williams (pictured) told ChannelEye.

Williams said that the company has the largest independent engineer field force in the UK with 1,400 employes and revenues of £100 million. It manages technology and communications for a number of large organisations in the UK. It provides its service offerings to OEMs, VARs and managed service providers, he said.

Williams said the company is already eyeing up acquisitions to further its spread.

Lemongrass gets APN premier partner status

Woking-based Lemongrass Consulting, which specialises in SAP Enterprise, Business One and Business By Design on AWS, has achieved Amazon’s PN Premier Consulting Partner status.

Premier Consulting Partner is the highest tier within the APN and is awarded to a small and exclusive number of high-quality partners with a proven track record that has made significant investments in technical skills and AWS expertise to help drive successful customer outcomes.

Silver Peak teams up with NSC

SD-WAN outfit  Silver Peak announced a new partnership with NSC.  The idea is to expand its global IT services portfolio with new managed SD-WAN services powered by the business-driven Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform.

NSC serves as a single source provider, offering professional SD-WAN deployment services, white-label managed SD-WAN services to tier one and multi-national service providers and turnkey managed SD-WAN services to new and existing enterprise clients. 

Infinidat intros data rescue for IBM storage customers

Infinidat has announced a Data Rescue Program for IBM customers concerned by Big Blue’s shutdown of its storage innovation centre.

Infinidat developed the programme in response to what it described as an influx of inquiries from IBM customers regarding escalating pressure to transition from high-end to lower-end storage and reports of layoffs across the high-end storage division.

Yieldhub scores Ensilica as a customer

Yieldhub has scored UK fabless ASIC design and supply company EnSilica as a customer.

The Wokingham-based outfit chose Yieldhub for yield management and outlier detection. EnSilica is a provider of custom ASICS to the automotive, industrial and IoT markets. Yieldhub will partner in enabling them to deliver these products.

Security technologies strong according to Globaldata

Deal activity remained strong in security technologies space in 2018, according to analysts GlobalData.

Despite the fluctuating trend in venture capital (VC) funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the security technologies space during 2014-2018, deal activity remained stable in 2018 compared to 2017, primarily due to the hype around the cybersecurity segment and companies’ strategies to strengthen their market position, said GlobalData.

US/China trade war will harm smartphone shipments

The US and China  trade war will hurt global smartphone shipments in 2019, according to Canalys.

The research outfit predicts that smartphone shipments will reach 1.35 billion units this year, representing a 3.1 percent year-on-year decline.

Chinese manufacturer Huawei has been a key figure in the dispute between the two superpowers, with the US last month banning the vendor from using American components and code for its products. It then issued a 90-day reprieve in order to prevent huge disruption to Huawei’s supply chain and users.

Sophos takes Rook

Sophos has acquired US-based Rook Security to provide managed detection and response (MDR) to its channel partners.

Rook was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Indianapolis. Sophos said the acquisition adds to its recent deal for DarkBytes, which was announced in January.

Joe Levy, chief technology officer at Sophos, said: “Cybercriminals are relentlessly trying to exploit organisations with techniques ranging from tried-and-true phishing emails to the more recent trend of ‘hacker pen-testing’ to find weaknesses in their surface area.

There’s a skills gap for digital roles

A CBI/TCS report has highlighted the UK’s rapidly accelerating digital talent gap and claims that the country is missing out on £63 billion a year as companies struggle to find people with digital skills.

The report, entitled report “Delivering Skills for the New Economy” warns that the skills gap could  jeopardise the country’s competitiveness, deter investment and limit people’s ability to access the jobs and services that technology offers.

GCI gets extra Modality

Converged ICT Services Provider GCI has acquired Modality Systems, which claims to be the world’s largest dedicated Microsoft communications and collaboration practice with operations in the UK, USA, Asia and Australia.

The move means GCI can expand its international business and capitalise on the growing global market for its Microsoft-based, cloud-enabled intelligent communications services.

Industrial internet market could slow

The $145 billion industrial internet market is at risk of slowdown over integration concerns, according to GlobalData analysts.

If this is the case, the industrial internet, which is expected to redefine the way the global industrial economy operates, is in danger of failing to take off because of integration problems, GlobalData said.