Extreme Networks appointed Nabil Bukhari as Chief Technology Officer, in addition to his current role as Chief Product Officer.
In his new role as CTO, Bukhari will expand on the “first mover” technology strategy he implemented to deliver simple, effortless, cloud-driven networking solutions that improve customer experiences and drive business advantages. He will continue to report to President and Chief Executive Officer Ed Meyercord.
Extreme Networks President and CEO Ed Meyercord said that Bukhari had done an outstanding job leading and transforming the outfit’s product organisation.
Cambium Networks has introduced new programmes and tools to help partners, distributors and managed service providers (MSP) grow revenue and transition enterprise customers to Wi-Fi 6 technology.
Cambium’s new channel investments include: an upgraded partner portal; a TCO Profiler software tool for quickly comparing deployment options; a “not for resale” Wi-Fi 6 starter kit; dedicated channel marketing and inside sales resources; virtual partner bootcamps; expanded free online training; virtual online demonstration capabilities; and expanded digital marketing funds.
Sophos has warned that nearly three quarters of organisations experienced a public cloud security incident in the last year.
In its The State of Cloud Security 2020 global survey Sophos said that the incidents included ransomware and other malware (50 percent), exposed data (29 percent), compromised accounts (25 per ent), and cryptojacking (17 percent). Organisations running multi-cloud environments were greater than 50 percent more likely to suffer a cloud security incident than those running a single cloud.
Chinese technology giant Huawei has been accused of trying to manipulate high-profile Britons to back the company’s role in UK’s 5G infrastructure.
According to a privately-funded dossier commissioned by a US film producer Andrew Duncan and compiled with the help of ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele politicians and academics, were targeted by Huawei to act as “useful idiots” for Beijing.
The report, entitled “China’s Elite Capture”, accuses the Chinese firm of setting up fake radio stations abroad and inviting prominent personalities on to panel discussions with an aim to encourage them to support Huawei.
The British elites targeted by Huawei included former Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston; Lord Clement-Jones, a Liberal Democrat peer; Sir Kenneth Olisa and the Lord Lieutenant of London, the report claims.
Reseller-Only Cloud Service Provider Giacom has partnered with Nuvolex, becoming the first distributor in the United Kingdom to resell the Nuvolex ManageX platform – the IT industry’s most advanced Multitenant Management platform, supporting Microsoft 365 and Azure administration.
The ManageX platform, it is claimed, provides provisioning and daily administration across all Microsoft 365 workloads, as well as Azure VMs, through a “Single Pane of Glass” administration portal.
LogicMonitor said TransACT Technology Solutions in the UK is joining its partner network as part of a worldwide expansion programme.
LogicMonitor’s global vice president, channels and alliances, Sanjay Gupta, said that partnerships were critical to its success, as they help it reach new customers in new markets.
“The companies in our Partner Network have a keen understanding of their clients’ IT monitoring needs and have proven their commitment to supporting those needs with the LogicMonitor platform.”
A consortium of technology companies comprising Cloudwick, MirrorWeb, and Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL (AWS), is working with PanSurg, an Imperial College London COVID-19 surgical network made up of healthcare professionals and academics from the Department of Surgery and Cancer and the Institute of Global Health Innovation.
The idea is to build a global knowledge platform to help provide the healthcare community with guidance on delivering high quality care to COVID-19 patients.
The coronavirus crisis has pushed companies to review their investment strategies to survive according to M&A integration expert Mike Kiersey, Principal Technologist at Boomi.
Kiersey said that corporations like Mitsubishi are undergoing a major shift, where M&As play a crucial role – sparking the question of how to integrate both parties. As the transition to digital speeds up, it can be expected that we will see a rise in mergers and acquisitions after the pandemic.
Insight announced the appointment of Darren Hedley as Managing Director of the company’s United Kingdom and Ireland business. Currently Sales Director of Public Sector, UK and Ireland, Darren will assume his new role from January 1, 2021.
He will replace Emma de Sousa, who is leaving the role to become President of the company’s EMEA business. The UK is a key market for Insight, receiving recognition through a number of accolades, including being named one of the UK’s “Best Workplaces” in 2020.
HP is stepping up its work on its products’ environmental sustainability
George Brasher, UK and Ireland managing director at HP, said that although the current situation was difficult, the planet was at a critical point.
“If you look at the environment, you are starting to see the impact of climate change and global warming”, he said, adding that the Black Lives Matter movement had also shown a spotlight on the ongoing inequalities in society and that the pandemic had underlined that certain groups had been the hardest hit by the virus. “Faced with these challenges, what we believe as HP is that we have to go back to our core principles to figure out how we go forward.”
The firm publishes its sustainability report every June. So far, HP has recycled more than 4.69 billion plastic bottles and removed 1,000 tonnes of packaging that was difficult to recycle. It has also kept 875 million printer cartridges out of landfill since it started working with partners in 1991 on its recycling scheme.
Channel leaders attribute only 17 percent of their revenue to collaboration and partnerships with other channel companies, compared to 25 pe cent in 2017, according to new research.
Channel services provider, Agilitas, has released its ‘Connect to Collaborate’ guide, which is the second in the company’s series of ‘How-to’ reports. The reports are a central part of Agilitas’ channel insight campaign, ‘Connect – Voice of the Channel’, which was launched back in 2019.
The guide is based on the results of research commissioned by Agilitas, surveying leading channel decision-makers about their predictions for the future of the industry and the role that collaboration will play in this.
The most popular reasons given for partnering with other companies were that collaboration is more cost effective and speed/efficiency . Other reasons included keeping up with regulation, and meeting customer demand.
Agilitas CEO Shaun Lynn said: “It has always been clear that collaboration is one of the ways that our industry differs – and stands out – from others, and the COVID-19 crisis has illustrated this more clearly than ever. Collaboration is inherent in the nature of our industry; even the way we refer to other companies as ‘partners’, and our relationships, or ‘partnerships’ with them, shows how collaborative the channel is.
A group of Lebanese IT distributors have been jailed for the crime of hacking off the might tin box shifter Dell and breaching an anti-lawsuit order.
Maher Chahlawi, Marwan Junior Chahlawi, Pierra Chalhoub, and Sarah Bibi were all sentenced in their absence. Dell secured a judgment from the UK’s High Court in April committing four current and former directors of Systems Equipment Telecommunication Services SAL (SETS) to prison, having spent in excess of £225,000 on the case.
SETS was an authorised, non-exclusive Dell distributor between 2004 and 2017 until the contract was terminated. Dell claimed SETS broke the contract; SETS said Dell wrongfully terminated the contract and sued in Lebanese courts.
Citing an “exclusive jurisdiction” clause in the contract, Dell filed an anti-lawsuit case in London’s High Court. As Mr Justice Henshaw put it in a previous judgment, “SETS nonetheless continued to pursue the Lebanese proceedings, and indeed commenced a second set of proceedings” against Dell in mid-2018.
Dell hit back, securing an anti-lawsuit injunction from the High Court which should have prevented SETS from suing it anywhere at all over the end of the contract.
Network infrastructure services provider Heficed has struck a deal with IP data providers IPinfo.io to provide Heficed’s IP Address Market access to enhanced IP address information, letting it grow a web infrastructure ecosystem that can ensure IP address accuracy surpasses current standards and increases industry transparency.
The pair expect keen interest from their clients. IPinfo.io, which specialises in providing enhanced IP Address data, will be able to offer its clients access to a large pool of IPv4 addresses via Heficed, as an extension to the standard set of data services .
IPinfo CEO Ben Dowling said: “Companies should be able to easily lease unused IPv4 addresses to other businesses that face IPv4 shortages, and the IP Address Market is a great and easy to use solution. To this end, we’re joining forces with Heficed in order to provide reliable and accurate IP data, and facilitate the IPv4 leasing process.”
John Lewis Partnership has teamed up with Indian tech giant Wipro that will see the outsourcer providing infrastructure services to the British retailer to help it expand its digital presence while also supporting its future business strategy in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.
As part of the deal, Wipro will deliver tech infrastructure services including cloud hosting, end user compute, networks, and an internal help desk to serve the retailer’s 80,000 staff members.
John Lewis said outsourcing the management of its IT infrastructure to Indian firm will ensure that it will “always have access to up-to-date technologies and specialist expertise”.
Mike Sackman, Chief Information Officer at the John Lewis Partnership said: consumer behaviour was changing and in a post COVID-19 world the company needed to be more agile, adapting more quickly to change.
Extreme Networks appointed Nabil Bukhari as Chief Technology Officer, in addition to his current role as Chief Product Officer.
