IT software solutions provider, KFA Connect, has pledged to take its fundraising total for Marie Curie to £10,000 by the end of 2020.
This follows the launch of it’s free ‘Magic Tax’ bridging software solution, which was developed by the company in response to HMRC’s 2019 legislation for ‘Making Tax Digital for VAT’. The method gives companies and individuals access to a free platform to submit VAT returns in return for a charitable donation to Marie Curie.
Insight Enterprises said that Wolfgang Ebermann 
is quitting as President of the Company’s European, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) business, effective December 31, 2020.
Ebermann has been instrumental in driving the transformation of Insight in Europe and seen an average of 25 percent growth in annual earnings from operations over the last five years and recognition as “Best Place to Work” in several European Countries.
He will be replaced by Emma de Sousa, currently Senior Vice President of the Company’s United Kingdom business and EMEA Marketing.
Outsourcing outfit Wipro’s dedication to the digital segment and AI/ML portfolio is paying off and its growth is matching those sectors, according to GlobalData.
In light of the rising adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) portfolio, a steady fourth quarter 2019 performance, supported by the double-digit quarterly growth (year-on-year) in the consumer and digital segment revenue and the October 2019 acquisition of International TechneGroup Inc., Wipro’s sentiments are on the rise, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
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.
Infinigate UK has signed a distribution agreement with A10 Networks, which will see the IT security distributor offer A10’s range of automation, AI and cloud-based cyber protection services to its partners.
Murray Pearce, managing director of Infinigate UK, said that A10 has developed “very good technology that uses the latest in automation, AI and cloud to protect against malicious cyberattacks” – such as multi-vector DDoS attacks and encrypted assaults.
Ping Identity has partnered with e92cloud and scored a key distribution agreement for Ping Identity in Europe which allows for broader reach in the lower enterprise market.
Ping makes its own cloudy Identity platform security solutions.
Schneider Electric has warned that channel firms will need to prove their sustainability credentials or face losing business.
Mark Garner, VP of Secure Power at Schneider Electric, said sustainability will become a key consideration for IT purchasers, along with traditional factors such as price. Moreover, he said Schneider is committed to having a carbon-neutral supply chain by 2030 and is working with channel partners on building green practices.
P2P automation software provider Yooz is expanding its global strategic partnership with Sage Intacct, the leading accounting software, in the UK.
The partnership will increase the business value of companies’ Finance and Accounts departments by providing better visibility into payables at any time and make more informed decisions with real-time data.
For those who came in late, Yooz is a cloudy AP automation provider integrating over 200 accounting and ERP software programs worldwide, based on AI, machine learning and deep learning technologies. The solution streamlines the AP workflow into a few automated steps: capture, enter, approve, pay and export invoices, cutting the processing time from weeks to days and decreasing administrative costs by 70 percent.
Arkphire has completed its acquisition of local rival Trilogy Technologies Group, and claims to have created the largest IT procurement and managed services business in Ireland.
The newly merged MSP has combined revenues of close to €150 million, with a headcount of 220 people.
Arkphire says the deal is a “major move of significant scale towards industry consolidation in the Irish ICT managed services sector”.
Nottinghamshire-based managed IT services specialist Octavian IT expanded into larger premises.
The last three months have seen the business’ annual recurring revenue increase by £78,000 thanks to signing six new contracts. With several of these deals struck with companies in the security industry, the company said 70 percent of its revenue now comes from highly-regulated, security-based industries.
The larger offices are in Bingham, Nottinghamshire and are designed to help it expand more.
Microsoft has named VIP as its OEM distributor after taking away the role in an RFP process around seven years ago.
Managing director Rich Marsden said his outfit had spent four years rebuilding its direct relationship with Microsoft and had now regained its official status.
He said that Microsoft spent a lot of time evaluating what we can do for them.
HPE has appointed Lewis Simmonds as its new channel sales leader responsible for its Platinum, Gold and Silver partners.
Lewis Simmonds joined the original Hewlett Packard as an account director in 2004.
Simmonds said: “I’m excited to accept the role of UK channel sales leader and to further my career with this opportunity at HPE. I’m looking forward to driving our channel forward in my new role as we scope not only for today but for the channel of the future.”
BT will now offer Dell’s Virtual Edge Platform (VEP) as part of its Dynamic Network Services product.
Apparently, the idea is that BT wants to help enterprises improve the deployment of applications and services.
BT will offer the family of networking-specific universal Customer Premises Equipment (uCPE) as converged networking, IoT and IT application platform, which it claims will help customers automate, simplify, and accelerate the flow of data for critical on-premises workloads.
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins remains confident about the networking vendor’s future, despite another quarter of declining revenues.
Revenues dipped by four per cent year on year during the three months ending 25 January to $12 billion. GAAP operating income meanwhile grew by five per cent to $3.4 billion, representing an operating margin of 28.2 percent.
This is the second quarter revenue has declined for the US networking giant and will be the third quarter in a row in which it has given negative guidance for the quarter ahead.
After cancelling its attendance at the Mobile World Congress, it seems Chipzilla is still rather scared of getting its ample bulk into an aircraft.
Intel has cancelled its channel event in Milan because of the coronavirus. While there has been a case of Kung Flu in Italy, it seems that Intel is taking no chances.
In an email sent to partners, Intel channel VP Greg Baur said the vendor had made the “difficult decision” to scrap the three-day event because a number of partners would have been unable to attend.
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