Beancounters at Gartner have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and worked out that the top ten OEMs increased their chip spending by more than 25 percent last year.
The big 10 accounted for 42.1 percent of the total market in 2021.
The price increase spending was due to global shortages which “prevented OEMs from increasing in production” and “significantly increased selling prices”, Gartner said.
Dell has given its Apex platform partners data storage services to play with which it claims will give them an opportunity to earn new referral incentives.
Data storage services will now be available to partners and customers in the UK through its as-a-service platform Apex.
The portfolio of storage resources is deployable on-premises or in a secure Dell-managed Equinix datacentre. Punters will pay for the storage capacity they use and can scale at the service level they need.
Organisations can select from three performance tiers available in one or three-year terms through the APEX console, with base capacity options starting as low as 50 terabytes.
Dell Technologies president and chief technology officer (CTO), John Roese, sees edge, private mobility, data management and security as the key areas companies will focus upon next year.
He said that edge plans will be divided between platforms and workflows/software stacks.
“I think the world is coalescing around things that aren’t in datacentres, that are part of the modern application and data pipelines, from a topology perspective, under this domain of edge that’s now starting to form”, he said.
“We are now realising that there is a significant proliferation of edges. What that means is that each of the data pipelines – the cloud services, the data services, the application environments – that have originated in public and private cloud environments are starting to push to the edge independently. That’s resulting in a proliferation of edge stacks, architectures and even hardware”, added Roese.
Beancounters at research outfit Canalys say that PC shipments in Western Europe jumped 21 percent annually to hit 16.3 million in the latest quarter.
Figures for the third quarter showed that HP regained the top spot after three quarters in the second position, shipping 4.4 million units and taking a 27 percent share.
Lenovo came second, shipping 4.1 million units to take a 25 percent share with Dell, Apple, and Acer rounding up the top five at 14 percent, 12 per cent and eight per cent shares respectively.
Canalys research analyst Trang Pham said the numbers showed a “continuous demand for PCs.
“This isn’t just about fulfilling backlog orders anymore, but about managing a longer-term demand and this is good news for every single vendor operating in the market.
“However, we’re now seeing a marked shift to commercial, as the segment grew 31 per cent versus 11 per cent in consumer. Looking ahead, commercial demand should sustain growth well into 2023.”
Western Europe’s PC market has now been trending upwards for six consecutive quarters, but tablet shipments in Western Europe shrank 20 percent in the quarter with a total of 6.9 million units shipped.
In the third quarter, tablets had an extraordinary performance as they filled a gap created by PCs shortages.
“They are now seeing a corrective decline as penetration within the primary userbase saturates.”
Cloud and digital transformation services provider Kerv has snapped up SD-WAN specialist Gyrocom.
The move makes Kerv a £50 million revenue business. The company was created through a three-way merger between DoubleEdge Professional Services, Foehn and Metaphor IT. It acquired Microsoft Dynamics and Power Platform specialist cloudThing in May.
Grey tin box shifter Dell has announced hardware deals for small businesses on the pretext of it being a Black Friday Warm-Up Sale.
This week various types of hardware, ranging from laptops and desktops to monitors and servers.
Businesses looking to invest in new tech can save up to 30 percent on new machines, Dell announced, as well as as much as 35 percent and 43 percent off monitors and servers, respectively. That includes potential savings of up to £720 on select laptops, with certain Vostro models starting from £455.
Synaxon UK has brought in Peter Mulvihill as Category Manager and Jane Haack as Key Account Manager, in a bit of a reshuffle to encourage growth.
Mulvihill will be responsible for managing Synaxon UK’s growing vendor and distributor portfolio, which includes major names such as Lenovo, Microsoft, HP, Dell, and APC. He brings two decades of experience working in distribution and reseller procurement and joins the channel services group from PC gaming systems specialist, Overclockers, where he spent the last three years as Purchasing Manager.
Haack will be responsible for liaising with Synaxon UK’s partners and recruiting and enabling additional partners for EGIS – Synaxon’s online procurement platform, Synaxon Distribution, Synaxon Managed Services (SMS), and the EGIS eCom e-commerce platform. She has previously worked in sales roles at managed services specialist Datto, and web content management provider, Altis.
Global server market revenues dropped 2.5 percent year over year to $23.6 billion during the second quarter, according to the latest IDC figures.
IDC beancounters counted more than 3.2 million during the quarter which was an increase of 0.1 percent over the previous year. The analyst claimed volume server revenue was up 5.6 percent to nearly $20 billion.
However, the midrange and high-end server downturn had a knock-on effect for the overall market, with IDC publishing declines of 30 pe cent to $2.4 billion for the midrange and 32.7 percent to $1.3 billion for the high-end.
IDC said that server market performance was muted in the second quarter as the market shifted slightly towards single-socket server configurations.
IDC Infrastructure Platforms and Technologies senior research analyst, Paul Maguranis said: “While servers purchased directly from ODMs declined year over year, some past backlog recovery within the hyperscale datacenter community contributed to a large jump in this segment when compared to the first quarter of this year.”
Dell has launched shedloads of new software and services to help companies come to terms with the shedloads of data they suddenly need to handle.
They include Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager with Transparent Snapshots, Dell EMC PowerProtect appliances with Smart Scale, and Dell Technologies Managed Services for Cyber Recovery Solution. All this lot expands virtual machine (VM) backup availability, simplify data management, and bolster recovery.
Dell infrastructure solutions group president Jeff Boudreau said that while ransomware attacks were devastating for people and businesses, accepting defeat as a foregone conclusion is not the answer.
“We understand the stakes have never been higher, and the task of protecting data has never been more complex. As the leading provider of data protection hardware and software, our portfolio addresses this growing challenge by helping customers adopt holistic cybersecurity and data protection strategy to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover from ransomware and other cyberattacks.”
The PC industry has still managed to grow across Western Europe by three per cent according to numbers crunched by Canalys.
A market analysis from Canalys has found that 15 million units, desktops, notebooks and workstations were shifted across Western Europe in the second quarter. Things would have been even better without the component shortages that have been plaguing the industry throughout the past year.
Canalys research analyst Trang Pham said that demand was still strong.
“Western Europe has emerged into a post-Covid ‘new normal’, a rapidly digitising world, as shown by the robust shipment numbers. Had supply issues been resolved, we could have seen even higher growth in the PC market.”
The top three in the market – Lenovo, HP and Dell – have managed to keep sales moving and the battle for market share has involved making sure there are enough units to meet customer orders.
Dell Technologies has appointed Chuck Whitten as its new co-chief operating officer to “help lead Dell’s next phase of growth”.
Whitten will take up the new role from 16 August alongside COO Jeff Clarke after spending the last 22 years at Bain & Company.
Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell, said that Whitten joined the company at a pivotal time to give us greater leadership capacity to cover more ground, assess more opportunities and speed decision making to best serve customers.
Vendors that admitted to customers that there were supply shortages and encouraged flexibility were well-placed to benefit in the PC market during the first quarter (Q1).
Beancounters at Canalys had a look into the component shortages that hit the hardware industry for the past 18 months and discovered that it was not so bad for some.
An analysis of first-quarter PC shipment numbers across Western Europe from Canalys indicated that there was strong growth in the market, with desktops, notebooks and workstations hitting 16.1 million units, a 48 percent year-on-year improvement.
On the vendor front, there will be celebrations over at HP, with the vendor regaining top spot from Lenovo by shipping 4.1 million units and with a 26 percent market share, with its closest rival having four million units and 25 percent share. Dell, Apple and Acer fill out the rest of the top five.
Dell has launched its RISE channel programme for partners across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
The big idea is to make life simpler for partners, particularly those that operate across multiple countries in EMEA and increase the rewards for top sellers.
RISE will have four partner levels – ignite, boost, advanced and elite – and is aimed at helping small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) partners be more competitive and provide them with a clear path to level up rewards.
Those rewards are given out on a per-box basis through Dell’s distributors and can be tallied up and then redeemed at the end of each quarter. Ignite and boost partners will get e-vouchers and advanced and elite can get credit notes at their distributor.
Dell has tarted up its partner programme and increased the rewards for those that cross and “upsell” more of its portfolio.
Dell also suggested that more changes were coming, most have been informed by feedback from the channel community, and the firm’s theme of the year is “Together, we stop at nothing”.
The annual update to partners also gave Dell Technologies’ global channel chief Rola Dagher, who took up the role six months ago, a chance to thank partners for their efforts during the last 12 months in a year dominated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Dagher said that he had been watching the amazing work during the pandemic and the pace of digital transformation, and how it’s accelerating beyond anything he imagined.
Dell Technologies has announced new security offerings across its supply chain, services and infrastructure.
Rob Tomlin, Vice President & General Manager, UK Channel & Distribution, Dell Technologies comment that risks were at an all time high with the hunt on to cause harm through activities including information theft and destructive malware or ransomware.
He said many businesses are still fighting this battle with limited security resources.
“With workers now dispersed and the number of network and device touchpoints on the rise, tangible data and insights into potential vulnerabilities and user behaviour can help business leaders to make more accurate decisions when it comes to security – helping to dramatically lower the risk”, he said.
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