Joe Macri is retiring as Microsoft’s UK partner boss in June this year, bringing a 24-year stint with the vendor to an end.
Macri was appointed VP of Vole’s commercial partner division in the UK in July 2017 after a long history in other Microsoft roles.
On LinkedIn, Macri said he would “retire from Microsoft on 30 June”.
The maker of expensive printer ink, HP, is taking to the road in a bus to support its education partners and get its wares in front of 25,000 students over the course of this year.
The idea is that resellers across the country can request that the bus makes a stop near them to help drum up interest from schools and educational institutions.
Neil Sawyer, channel and education director at HP, said that it hoped that increasing support for educational resellers would benefit existing partners as well as encouraging some fresh faces to get involved in the market.
Britain’s sovereignty will be in jeopardy if the UK allows Huawei to develop its 5G infrastructure, the US secretary of state has warned.
Mike Pompeo described the decision facing Britain’s national security council as “momentous”.
The US administration has previously warned allies not to allow the company’s equipment to form part of their 5G networks, claiming it would be a security risk due to its links to the Chinese government. Huawei has repeatedly denied that its equipment could be used to spy on people and the US has totally failed to prove it.
WND UK has deployed the UK’s first wireless public network for secure sensor data, achieving over 90 percent population coverage in 18 months, it claimed.
The network uses Sigfox uses a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technology, which is purpose-built to provide low-cost connectivity and enable the use of cost-efficient silicon modules.
Sigfox is, it’s claimed, the world’s first dedicated low-power wide-area communications service for the Internet of Things (IoT). Sigfox provides basic connectivity to devices that do not require high throughput. This approach is ideally suited to the vast majority of IoT devices as it requires little power – enabling devices to run for years on a single battery.
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Guy Lloyd at CySure has warned that there has been a noticeable rise in cyber attacks on managed service providers.
In his report entitled “SMEs: Cybersecurity questions to ask your MSP” Lloyd said hackers were infiltrating MSP networks enticed by the chance to victimise multiple companies with just one hack.
Huawei has been cleared to play a part in forming the UK’s 5G network and the UK government might actually stand up to its American overlords.
A meeting of government officials yesterday concluded that a “limited role” for the vendor would not pose a threat to the UK’s cybersecurity. The UK’s National Security Council will meet next week to decide if and how Huawei’s technology is used.
The government has been under pressure for the US to snub Huawei in the 5G rollout claiming it is all about spying when it is more likely to be about its trade war. The US claims that Huawei’s close ties to the Chinese government could facilitate espionage, which Huawei has consistently denied and the US has so far never come up with any evidence.
Earlier this month the US government reportedly told the UK that allowing Huawei’s equipment into the 5G network would be “nothing short of madness”.
But the UK government views Huawei’s technology as more advanced than that of its competitors such as Ericsson and Nokia – a view that has also been pushed by network providers BT and Vodafone.
Xerox’s plan to stack the HP board to assist its take-over has been received with a cold hard stare by the maker of expensive printer ink.
For those who came in late, Xerox has raised the cash to take over the much bigger HP.
HP has confirmed that Xerox is planning to nominate 11 candidates to stand for election to the Company’s Board of Directors at the HP’s 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Avaya announced the appointment of Steve Joyner as managing director of the UK and Ireland (UK&I). Reporting to Ronald Rubens, vice president, Europe, Joyner will lead the company’s evolution into a cloud-centric communications provider and run Avaya’s global cloud strategy in the UK&I.
Joyner began at Avaya following the acquisition of Nortel in 2009 and has held multiple engineering, sales and channel roles in the UK and the Middle East over his 30-year career.
IBM has closed 2019 with thin sales growth which was saved by a thriving cloud business and propped up by its acquisition of Red Hat.
Revenues increased by 0.07 percent for the fourth quarter of 2019 to $21.78 billion. For the full 2019 year, revenues increased by 0.2 percent to $77.1 billion adjusted for divested businesses and currency. Without these adjustments, revenues dipped by 3.1 percent. Pre-tax operating income, however, dropped by 10 percent to $10.17 billion.
Q Advisors and Unreasonable Group announced a strategic partnership to support high growth ventures tackling social, financial and environmental challenges and help scale their solutions globally.
Using Unreasonable Group’s immersive programmes, media arm, and global network of industry thought leaders and Q Advisors’ deep expertise in supporting high growth technology entrepreneurs, the partnership will help drive resources to accelerate growth for ventures focused on developing new frontier technological solutions that are solving social and environmental challenges globally, as well as help them reach a broader array of stakeholders.
Oracle has appointed former VMWare channel chief Ross Brown as vice president of its Cloud GTM division.
Brown’s LinkedIn profile has revealed his new position as Oracle’s Cloud chief, where he will be responsible for leading its go-to-market operations. According to the brief entry on his page, he will lead the segment from Seattle, Washington, where the firm has recently expanded its cloud infrastructure workforce.
Brown joins the business after 20 months off after leaving his role as senior vice president of VMWare’s WW Partners and Alliances division.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who is widely credited with reviving Microsoft with a move to the cloud, has said that Azure was the brainchild of the shy and retiring former CEO Steve Ballmer.
Nadella told CNBC that Ballmer played a key role in the refocus to cloud.
“The guy who gave me permission to do all this was Steve Ballmer. He wanted us to be bold and go at the cloud very aggressively and that is what we did”, Nadella said.
Paragon Micro has revealed plans to launch in the UK in April, with offices in Sheffield and London.
The US VAR has annual sales of $150 million and is an HPE, Dell and Cisco partner.
CEO Jeff Reimer said: “International expansion has long been part of our plan as it presents a tremendous growth opportunity for Paragon Micro given that a large percentage of the IT market is located outside the US.
Kaspersky has improved its licensing to encourage MSPs to use the outfit this includes rolling out a self-service portal for resellers.
The security player quoted numbers from Ami Partners, that have charted the growth in the MSP market and found that it has almost doubled from 48,000 firms globally in 2016 to an expected 74,000 by next year.
The License Management Portal (LMP) helps MSPs order, manage and report on licences and gives partners that chance to offer users a pay-as-you-go monthly billing plan.
Forrester’s latest research shows that the security model Zero Trust is rapidly becoming the top choice for enterprises and governments.
In the brand-new report with the catchy title “A Practical Guide To A Zero Trust Implementation,” Forrester Principal Analyst and Zero Trust pioneer Chase Cunningham provides a roadmap for security leaders how to implement a successful Zero Trust strategy.
The report said that Zero Trust enables the business while adapting the firm’s security architecture to support new user populations, customer engagement models, rapid cloud adoption, and new IoT devices and sensors.
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