Ingram Micro adds ITagree to cloudy offerings

Ingram Micro added ITagree to its UK Cloud Marketplace, which will provide partners with comprehensive legal agreements tailored to their unique business needs.

The cloud solution provides all the legal agreements that MSPs use with their customers, helping to manage client expectations and reduce the overall time spent addressing their issues.

Resolve announces new global partner programme

IT automation and orchestration provider Resolve has announced the launch of its new global partner programme and bought in Russell Eddleman has been brought in to support the revamp

The freshly expanded programme provides new service opportunities for managed service providers, systems integrators and consulting partners, whilst simultaneously extending Resolve’s global customer reach.

Lenovo targets mid-market

Lenovo executives have decided that the mid-market is a crucial segment where its data centre business and channel can make a pile of dosh.

Lenovo’s UK Data Centre boss Ian Hume said the outfit had been investing in its Data Centre Group (DCG) back-end capabilities with teams to support partners as well as identifying fresh customers for resellers to target in the mid-market space.

Nuvias wants new partners

Security outfit Nuvias has embarked on a campaign to encourage new partners to sign up.

The #TrueValueAdd campaign is running in the UK and across other European countries until Christmas with the aim of providing partners with a number of rewards, including training and consultancy.

Nuvias is looking to make its expertise around solution building available to partners so they can build a more compelling pitch. It is investing in its own systems and has launched the campaign because it feels it is now in a position to help partners identify more ‘valuable opportunities’.

Smartphone sales drop down the loo

Beancounters working for analyst outfit Gartner say that global shipments are pretty pants at the moment but it is hoping that 5G could turn things around

Global shipments of smartphones are set to decline by 3.2 percent in 2019, the latest report from Gartner predicts, leaving the category facing its worst decline to date.

ANS buys Canadian Alithya

Manchester’s ANS has bought the UK operation of Canadian publicly listed consultancy Alithya.

It bought the UK portion of the Microsoft partner to boost its digital service and will result in 15 Dynamics experts being added to the ANS workforce.

CEO Paul Shannon: “We believe the two organisations are a perfect fit across many areas including culture, customer centricity and technology expertise, to name a few.

Spiceworks plays matchmaker

Spiceworks has previewed a new service that matchmakes IT service providers with customers.

The firm said Account Intelligence will allow MSPs to create a profile that advertises their specialisations, skills, services and geography, and then artificial intelligence (AI) will help matchmake them with potential customers.

Adept4 swallows CloudCoCo

Managed service player Adept4 has snapped up CloudCoCo.

The deal valued at £6.1 million will be put to a shareholder vote on 21 October, with the name being changed to CloudCoCo Group.

CloudCoCo was set up by former sales directors from Redcentric. Once the deal is given the thumbs up from shareholders, the plan is for Andy Mills, current chairman of CloudCoCo would join the board of Adept4 as CEO. Mark Halpin (founder and current CEO of CloudCoCo) will lead the business development activities, with Robert Speight and Graham Collinson (respectively CloudCoCo’s chief sales officer and chief operating officer).

HPE sells GreenLake and subscriptions to partners

HPE is sitting down with its distribution partners this week to encourage them to flog its new GreenLake offeringsand subscription model to the mid-market.

The former maker of expensive printer ink  is holding its second annual distribution shindig, this week.

More than 400 partners now selling the Greenlake offerings, which makes it the fastest growing part of the vendor’s business, increasing 275 percent year-on-year.

Tibco hires Studer

Integration outfit Tibco has appointed Fred Studer as its new chief marketing officer.

Studer will lead its worldwide marketing.

Studer has a career in marketing, creative, and product management, with over 25 years experience in the high tech industry.

Panasonic joins Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider programme

Panasonic has signed up its Toughbook product as the first rugged-focused mobile computing provider to join the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider programme.

The idea is that punters can administration time and radically improve the user experience when deploying Panasonic rugged Windows mobile devices by using the Windows Autopilot cloud-based configuration and deployment service.

Logicalis UK scores framework in

Logicalis UK announced that it had been awarded a place on Jisc Services Network Equipment framework, under three lots: Lot 3 Cisco, Lot 8 F5, and Lot 8 Infoblox.

Logicalis was named as the top-ranked supplier for Cisco solutions to the sector and is the only nominated F5 supplier.

US tops cross-border M&A activity

The US registered the highest outbound as well as inbound mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deal volume in the technology sector in 2018, according to analyst outfit GlobalData.

All the top 10 positions in terms of the number of outbound M&A deals were occupied by developed nations with the US leading the way in terms of both deal volume and value in 2018.