Tech Data wants more than 50 partners to take part in its fully funded Amazon Web Services (AWS) training and enablement programme.
The initiative will help partners rise up through the tiers of AWS’ partner programme,
Tom Ellis, senior manager for AWS at Tech Data UK, said the programmer was an value-add that it’s delivering for partners who want to take advantage of the growth his company is seeing with AWS cloud services.
The UK 5G market is at tipping point according to the latest IDTechEx report.
The report, with the catchy title “5G Technology, Market and Forecasts 2020-2030,” sees 5G is considered as one of the largest market opportunities in the coming years, with large scale roll-out of infrastructures and rapid adoption of 5G devices and services.
The increasing number of sophisticated cyber threats will lead to a rise in demand for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions from small and medium businesses.
According to Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Global Managed Detection and Response Market, Forecast to 2024, the market size is poised to grow at a CAGR of 16.4 percent between 2019 and 2024, with revenues expected to reach $1.9 billion.
Data gathered by LearnBonds claims the 3D printing industy will surge 155 percent hitting $40.8 billion in value by 2024.
Apparently the reason is evolving value chains, market innovations, and cutting-edge technology developments are pushing 3D printing into the mainstream market. This type of production has surged in recent years and a growing number of businesses use 3D printing solutions, allowing them speed and flexibility while reducing costs.
3D printing enables the production of complex shapes using less material than traditional manufacturing methods, which is why it is widely used for small production runs, prototyping, small business, and educational use.
In 2020, the global 3D printing industry is expected to be worth $16 billion, revealed Wohlers Associates Annual Report on the State of 3D Printing. In the next two years, the market revenue is forecast to touch $25.5 billion. Statistics indicate the strong upward trend is set to continue in the following years, with the market revenue growing by a compound annual growth rate of 26.4 percent between 2020 and 2024.
The State of 3D Printing Report by Sculpteo revealed that in 2020, the most popular use case of 3D printing was prototyping among 68 percent of those asked, a 34 per cent rise compared to 2017 figures. Another 59 per cent of companies and businesses used the technology for proof of concept purposes, 36 per cent more than three years ago.
Statistics show that 49 percent of companies used 3D printing in production, a 27 percent rise on 2017. Research and education and creation of mechanical and spare parts follow with 42 percent and 40 percent of respondents, respectively.
Xpedition and K3|pebblestone [What sort of name is that? Ed.] have announced their partnership. Xpedition will become a value added reseller for K3|pebblestone solutions in the Fashion and Apparel sector, and also provide support for users of the K3|pebblestone system.
K3|pebblestone supports Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud with product extensions built for the industry covering the entire lifecycle from design to sale. K3 will provide solutions and subject matter expertise in the fashion market to complement Xpedition’s expertise in this area.
Frank Deans, Enterprise Business Development Manager at K3|pebblestone said: “K3 are thrilled to announce their partnership with Xpedition. In this strategic cooperation Xpedition will provide ongoing support to existing K3|pebblestone customers and strengthen our go-to-market proposition in the UK. We look forward to working with Xpedition to help businesses in Fashion and Apparel gain competitive edge and delight their customers.”
Avaya Holdings is planning to accelerate its global cloud strategy in Ireland following the appointment of Aidan Furlong as Country General Manager of Ireland.
The company said that Furlong will help to champion the evolution of new and existing customers and partners to cloud-centric communications and build momentum in the adoption of Avaya solutions as businesses across the island of Ireland increase their digital transformation.
Previously Client Director at Avaya Ireland for over two years and Channel Manager for over six years prior to that, Furlong has extensive experience in working with the Avaya Partner community to drive growth and mutual success in meeting customer needs.
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.
Value-add distributor Exertis Hammer announced an EMEA-wide distribution agreement with big data storage supplier DDN.
The vendor designs, develops, deploys, and optimises systems, software and storage solutions that enable enterprises, service providers, universities, and government agencies to generate more value and accelerate time to insight from their data, on premise and in the cloud.
Exertis Hammer General Manager Adam Blackwell said: “New and existing customers will hugely benefit from DDN’s focus on artificial intelligence, big data and high performance computing (HPC) that this partnership will bring to our offering.”
Increasing in private investment might be putting the channel at risk, according to analyst outfit Canalys.
The IT industry has seen a surge in private equity (PE) investment of late. Traditionally a source of funding for start-ups, larger vendors such as LogMeIn, McAfee, Sophos, Veeam and Veritas have all benefited from PE funding over the last year.
But Canalys thinks this is a bad thing saying that the continued investment by private equity firms in technology vendors is a lit fuse which is designed to ignite value (and return) for shareholders, but which often ignores the long-term value brought by the channel.
Kodak Alaris has recognised partners from the Europe, Africa and Middle East region (EMEA) in its annual Partner of the Year awards.
Spigraph, Benelux was named Top Value Added Distributor; the company has collaborated closely with the Kodak Alaris sales team and continued to drive high market share in the region.
Spigraph Vice President Sales, Northern Europe Koen Beeuwsaert said: “To be awarded as Top Value Added Distributor of the year is a great recognition of all our joint efforts to drive profitable growth through the region.
VMware is to buy network detection and response vendor Lastline.
The agreement is set to close by 31 July and VMware will run Lastline’s malware analysis as a “critical feed” for its Carbon Black EDR platform.
VMware’s Networking and Security Business Unit, general manager Tom Gillis, VMware said: “This is an important step forward for VMware’s vision of Intrinsic Security, as it will allow us to further take advantage of the intrinsic attributes of our virtualisation platform to yield innovative security capabilities.
Automation is being embraced by business leaders as the linchpin of the insurance industry’s future success, according to IT services and consultancy business NTT DATA UK.
The research surveyed senior London Market syndicates, brokers and managing agents, uncovering that 70 percent believe automation can significantly benefit business development.
Appetite for this digital transformation of the insurance business model is growing as costs rise within the market – for every £1 spent by Lloyd’s customers, around 40p is consumed by costs. As such, the majority of respondents (59 percent) recognise digital as important to their business today, rising sharply to 97 percent who believe digital will be important in the next three years.
VMware has appointed former Google Cloud vice president of product marketing Carol Carpenter as its new chief marketing officer.
With over 25 years’ experience in the technology sector, Carpenter will be responsible for leading all aspects of the firm’s Global Marketing organisation, including Corporate Marketing, Partner, Segment and Field Marketing.
Sanjay Poonen, chief operating officer of VMware, said: “Carpenter’s passion for solving customer problems aligns well with VMware’s customer-first approach and her expertise will take our marketing team to new heights.”
Google Cloud has appointed Pip White as the company’s Managing Director of UK and Ireland.
White will join Google Cloud in September this year and will lead the UK and Ireland business and the company’s development of its “go-to-market” sales operations across the region. She will spearhead and scale Google Cloud’s sales strategy across the UK and Ireland, a market which has seen a number of recent high-profile customer wins such as Lloyds Banking Group, Vodafone and The Football Association.
White has about two decades of sales leadership experience, driving enterprise cloud solution sales strategies, strategic alliances, inside sales, and technical team management.
Exclusive Networks announced it has become a Strategic Partner for Vodafone Ireland to reflect its role in accelerating the creation of the network operator’s internal cybersecurity practice with a suite of managed security services delivered all the time using next-generation technology.
Exclusive said the awarding of the contract demonstrates the value of the Exclusive Networks MSSD (Managed Security Service Distributor) proposition to enable partners with the means to differentiate in the B2B market – particularly in the wake of growing threat vectors arising in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic – using innovative technologies including Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and Thales.
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