Tag: Amazon

Sophos shacks up with Amazon

Posted on August 26, 2021 by - News

Former British security outfit Sophos has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Level 1 Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) Competency status and is apparently the first to be named a Level 1 MSSP Competency programme partner. Parse that, if you can.

Scott Barlow, Sophos vice president of global MSP and cloud alliances said that it has never been more critical for organisations adopting cloud services to optimise their security “posture”, block advanced threats, and have expert resources available to monitor environments all the time,  to stay secure.

Fujitsu teams up with Amazon on cloudy health

Posted on July 19, 2021 by - News

Fujitsu in the UK has announced its support of the AWS for Health initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS) by bringing Epic in the Cloud to NHS trusts and UK healthcare providers.

The development means healthcare organisations looking to deploy Epic have the option, for the first time, to run an electronic patient record in the cloud.

By working with Fujitsu and its ecosystem of strategic suppliers, trusts can expect to reduce the cost, minimise the technical risk and minimise clinical and other resources required to deploy, maintain and deliver maximum benefit from their EPR investment.

Fujitsu head of UK healthcare Jamie Whysall said: “We are pleased to support the AWS for Health initiative and to be part of a movement designed to make it easier for health and care organisations to find the right digital partners and the tools they need to address the challenges and opportunities facing them.

Amazon doing well out of the cloud

Posted on May 3, 2021 by - News

Amazon’s web revenues jumped by 32 percent in the first quarter, thanks to its cloud operations.

AWS’ total revenue from January to March was $13.5 billion, a significant increase from $10.2 billion in the first quarter of last year and 12 percent of Amazon’s total revenue.

The outfit beat the fourth quarter’s 28 percent growth rate and matched that of the first quarter last year while also contributing $4.1 billion in operating income, up from $3 billion in the first quarter last year.

Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos said: “Two of our kids are now 10 and 15 years old – and after years of being nurtured, they’re growing up fast and coming into their own.”

SCC scores Amazon advanced partner status

Posted on March 1, 2021 by - News

Independent IT solutions provider  SCC has achieved Advanced Partner status with Amazon Web Services (AWS) across its UK and French businesses.

As a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN), SCC is part of the global community of partners who leverage AWS to build solutions and services. SCC is a Public Sector Partner, Solution Provider, and Advanced Consulting Partner to AWS.

The AWS Advanced Consulting Partner tier recognises Consulting Partners that have excelled in providing successful solutions on AWS.

The company sees it as a milestone for SCC EMEA, with the business awarded AWS Advanced Partner status for its combined capabilities across UK and France.

SMBs more likely to grow if they have a cloud

Posted on September 16, 2020 by - News

SMBs running clouds are more likely to be growing by more that five percent than those without one, according to a report issued by Amazon Web Services.

The quantitative study was carried out by Public First on the use and benefits created by AWS’s services for SMB organisations across the UK. In order to develop the research, AWS and Public First consulted with multiple leading academic experts. Key findings include:

• Business growth: companies running on the cloud are nearly three times as likely to be growing over five percent a year than those who are not. Moreover, businesses that used more than three cloud tools were twice as likely to be growing as businesses that use none.

Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue up by 30 percent

Posted on September 14, 2020 by - News

Software king of the world Microsoft appears to be doing better than Amazon and Google in the cloud stakes.

According to the research data analysed and published by StockApps.com, during the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2020 which ended on June 30, 2020, Microsoft had an increase of 30 percent in commercial cloud revenue.

While commercial cloud revenue totalled $14.3 billion, Intelligent Cloud revenue was $13.37 billion. This marked an increase of 17 percent year on year and surpassed analysts’ expectations of $13.11 billion according to FactSet. The Intelligent Cloud segment includes such products as Azure, Windows Server and GitHub among others. More Personal Computing, which includes Xbox and Surface, was up 14 percent. Productivity and Business Processes, whose products include Office and Dynamics, was up six per cent. Overall revenue increased 13 percent year on year to $38.0 billion.

Five cloud services providers took more than a third of the market

Posted on August 21, 2020 by - News

Beancounters at IDC claimed that the global public cloud services market totalled $233.4 billion (£176 billion) in 2019, representing a 26 percent increase year on year.

The report claims that the top five public cloud service providers – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce.com – accounted for more than a third of the worldwide total, growing a combined 35 percent year over year.

Software as a service (SaaS) remained the largest segment of public cloud spending with revenues of more than $122 billion in 2019, an increase of 20 percent year-over-year. IDC expects SaaS growth to continue as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as businesses shift to subscription-based models and look to software collaboration tools to facilitate remote working.

IDC’s Rick Villars said that the cloud is expanding far beyond niche e-commerce and online ad-sponsored search and underpinned digital activities that individuals and enterprises depend upon as we navigate and move beyond the pandemic.

AWS and Slack take on Microsoft

Posted on June 9, 2020 by - News

AWS and Slack have united in a project to take on Microsoft Teams.

The multi-year deal will see Slack migrate all of its audio and video call capabilities to Amazon’s Chime platform, which competes with the likes of WebEx and Zoom. Slack already used AWS as its “preferred cloud partner”.

Under the deal Slack will pay AWS at least $425 million for hosting between now and May 2025

AWS will adopt Slack internally as part of the deal, and encourage developers to manage their AWS environments on Slack’s messaging platform.

Parcel delivery could be the next big e-commerce thing

Posted on March 16, 2020 by - News

The rise in e-commerce is fueling rapid growth in parcel delivery volumes, a market expected to grow to $665 billion by 2030 according to a new analyst report.

Consumers are increasingly expecting parcels to be delivered quickly. This demand is driving companies to explore using automated delivery technologies to cover the last leg of the delivery journey.

Lux Research’s new report, “Automating the Last Mile,” predicts that automated last-mile deliveries will generate up to $48.4 billion in revenue by 2030, even though automated deliveries will only address 20 per cent of all parcel deliveries.

Insight UK Awarded Amazon Partner Status

Posted on February 20, 2020 by - News

Insight, announced it has earned the AWS Well-Architected Partner status, in recognition of its expertise in building and deploying workloads in Amazon Web Services.

With European enterprises investing heavily in cloud, spending on average £29.48 million in 2018, the newly-awarded status means organisations can trust Insight to deliver expert consultancy, review their AWS architecture, and help fix any problems  to optimise their environment.

Amazon bases itself in Manchester

Posted on January 17, 2020 by - News

Amazon has opened its first UK corporate office in Manchester.

The tech giant’s office occupies all six floors of the Hanover Building in the city’s Northern Quarter and measures 90,000 square feet, which the company expects “in time” to house 600 employees.

The online bookseller is looking for software developers, solutions architects and finance analysts across both Amazon and its cloud arm, AWS.

Zuckerberg slams Amazon’s sky-high cloud price

Posted on October 15, 2019 by - News

Social networking king Mark Zuckerberg slammed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Amazon Web services (AWS) for its soaring costs in cloud computing and data storage.

Zuckerberg’s remarks came during his speech at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, his philanthropic organisation that organised a seminar on the challenges in scientific research.

During the live-streamed discussion, Zuckerberg said one of the new challenges with cutting-edge research and start-ups is the high cost of computing services.

Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple will face regulation

Posted on July 30, 2019 by - News

Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple will face regulation in ten main areas over the coming years, with data privacy representing the main focus, warned  GlobalData.

GlobalData’s latest report: ‘Data privacy – Thematic research’ states that Big Tech companies have persistently evaded any form of accountability for data breaches, election manipulation, obstruction of justice, promotion of terrorist material, fake news, and online abuse perpetrated through their own internet platforms.

Amazon expands with Business Prime

Posted on July 5, 2019 by - News

Online bookseller Amazon is continuing to give the channel a headache by rolling out its Prime service to Business customers.

The has been some debate in the channel over whether working with Amazon is a good idea with some industry commentators warning that the etailer should be seen as a rival. Resellers without a services plan, trying to compete on product and price, have been hammered.

Having launched its Amazon Business offering in the UK in April 2017, the firm is now adding Prime for business customers. The firm stated that is already serves more than half of the FTSE 100 companies and 80 percent of the largest universities.

Lemongrass gets APN premier partner status

Posted on June 6, 2019 by - News

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.