Extreme increases mojo customer training dojo

Extreme Networks has extended its ExtremeDojo training program to customers and added a technical training pathway.

Originally designed to educate employees and global partners, ExtremeDojo now provides its customers with modular, competency-based curricula delivered in a new and gamified format.  Technical engineers

Insight appoints new EMEA services Vice President

Insight EMEA, a division of Insight, has appointed Karen Mclaughlin as Vice President, Services, EMEA. Managing a team of more than 250 services professionals, Karen will be responsible for accelerating Insight’s services division across Europe.

Mclaughlin brings with her more than two decades of experience leading and developing  managed services for organisations, globally. Most recently, as Vice President at DXC Technology, her role was focused

Ideagen “ahead of market expectations”

Nottingham based software outfit Ideagen has reported that it expects to be marginally ahead of market expectations when it releases its full year results later this year.

The Group said that it expects to see a 29 percent rise in revenues to approximately £46.7million FY2019 when it releases its results in July, up from £36.1million FY 2018.

Masergy appoints new channel lead

SD-WAN,  cloud communications and managed security solutions provider Masergy has hired Emily Nerland to lead its UK channel account management team, amid fresh investments across its channel operations.

Masergy EMEA managing director Steve Harrington said the company was amplifying partner revenue capabilities and driving new opportunities in the channel.

Intel reveals Project Athena Open Labs

Intel has unveiled details surrounding its new Project Athena Open Labs project which is  designed to support and optimise components for the upcoming Project Athena class of advanced laptops.

Project Athena aims to create a more power-efficient and responsive class of laptop that capitalises on next-generation technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence.

Cohesity snaps up Imanis Data.

Storage outfit Cohesity has written a cheque for backup and data management player Imanis Data.

The move is being seen as Cohesity looking to help customers deal with “modern workloads” with NoSQL distributed databases, containers and SaaS data.

Industry expert warns about quality matters

Quality and Compliance is no longer treated as a ‘tick-the-box after thought’ according to Paul Hastings (pictured), a quality and compliance consultant.

Hastings, who works for the software outfit with software firm Ideagen, said that globalisation, competition for choice – coupled by the explosion of social media in the last decade –means that businesses need to be operating to the upmost standards under immense scrutiny.

Channel firms back business transformation

More than two thirds of IT channel firms think business transformation is needed to meet customer requirements according to a new analyst report.

Agilitas has added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and found that 68 percent  of businesses believe that channel companies must adapt and “evolve” to deal with customer demands, advancements in new technologies and other disruptive elements of the constantly changing IT and business landscape.

TrackTrans scores in Swinson Transport cloud project

TrackTrans has announced that Midlands-based Swinson Transport has successfully deployed its company’s cloud-based systems to connect drivers, better use its fleet of 20-plus vehicles and handle more than 700 deliveries every month.

The company said that since installing the TrackTrans system, the family-run business has realised tangible time savings, reduced administrative overheads, boosted business performance, and improved customer service.

IT jobs gap still happening

There is a huge demand for IT positions across the UK with tens of thousands of vacancies out there underlining the extent of the demand from employers for skilled individuals.

According to the Industry association CompTIA there were 162,000 IT job openings across the UK in first quarter accounting for nine per cent of all the vacancies across the economy.

Printers need to be more open minded about data

The humble printer could be a significant hub for data and compute power as part of an  IoT ecosystem but it needs a change in attitude from vendors.

Analysts from Quocirca say that vendors have a drawbridge up attitude when it comes to data sharing even while multifunction printers already generate a lot of data and have compute power that could be taken advantage of if third parties could use it as a resource.

Aquisitor SecureLink bought

SecureLink which has been aggressively acquiring other companies has been sold to Orange for €515 million.

The outfit had increased its annual revenues to nearly €250 million using European acquisitions and collected UK-based Nebulas and Nordic outfit Coresec among its scalps.

Mphasis hires Bhatia

IT solutions outfit Mphasis has appointed Anurag Bhatia as Senior Vice President and Head of Europe business.

Bhatia would be responsible for spearheading growth strategies, client pursuits and enhancing client success in the region.

Bhatia has over twenty years of technology services experience in multiple large outsourcing projects globally. He joins the European team from Mphasis US, where he has been part of the GTM unit for past five years, leading Service Transformation in his most recent role.