Author: Nick Farrell

Fujitsu de-risks move to services for partners

Posted on November 21, 2019 by - News

Fujitsu has taken further steps to de-risk its solutions for those partners that are still adapting their business models.

The firm has been adapting its managed service partner support levels over the last 18 months and says its channel , which has been traditionally been based around selling hardware through a CAPEX model, needed a bit of a hand.

The latest innovation from the vendor is to team up with Cyxtera to provide Nutanix Enterprise Cloud on PRIMERGY as a service, making it possible for a partner to offer collocation services without having to invest in the hardware upfront.

MSPs can’t make customers understand security

Posted on November 21, 2019 by - News

More than half of MSPs in Europe have problems trying to persuade customers to adopt the best-fit solutions they recommend, despite a lack of IT security expertise continuing to drive outsource services.

According to Kaspersky Labs’ Maintaining MSP Momentum report, which delves into the challenges and opportunities faced across the evolving IT landscape.

Over the last few years, the MSP market has grown rapidly, with research firm Gartner tipping the global public services market to grow by 17.5 percent in 2019 alone. Reflecting this trend, Kaspersky’s report found that 31 percent of surveyed businesses already outsource cybersecurity – while 21 percent are planning to follow suit over the coming year.

Around a third of companies with 500 employees or less said they do so because they lack the required IT knowledge and expertise within their business.

Getronics CEO exits the building

Posted on November 21, 2019 by - News

Getronics’ CEO Nana Baffour (pictured) has cleaned out his desk after a global restructure within the Dutch IT services giant.

Baffour entered the Getronics CEO role in August 2017 after his investment firm, Bottega InvestCo, acquired the company from Aurelius.

The CEO departs as Getronics announces that it has reached an agreement with its stakeholders to take on new capital investment and undergo “a recapitalisation of the business”.

DDoS attacks up 241 percent

Posted on November 20, 2019 by - News

The growth in both large- and small-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks continues its upward trajectory, according to a report  by Neustar’s Security Operations Center (SOC).

The third quarter of 2019 Cyber Threats and Trends report reveals that the number of DDoS attacks was up 241 percent in the third quarter of 2019, compared to the same period last year.

The report also confirmed the continued increase in small-scale attacks and the use of multiple threat vectors, as new vectors continue to expand the attack surface that organisations must defend.

SNOMED partners with Digital China Health

Posted on November 20, 2019 by - News

London-based SNOMED has partnered with DCHealth as an approved delivery agent of its CT education product throughout China.

DCHealth and SNOMED have struck an agreement to deliver mutually agreed upon SNOMED CT educational content including the organisation’s clinically and “technically curated” Foundation and Implementation courses, with the potential to offer the organisations suite of Authoring courses for delivery.  

AWS deepens Salesforce partnership

Posted on November 20, 2019 by - News

AWS has announced Salesforce will be offering AWS telephony and call transcription services with Amazon Connect as part of its Service Cloud call centre solution.

Patrick Beyries, VP of product management for Service Cloud said: “We have a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services, which will allow customers to purchase Amazon Connect from us, and then it will be pre-integrated and out of the box to provide a full transcription of the call, and of course that’s alongside an actual call recording of the call.”

HPE announces new container platform product

Posted on November 19, 2019 by - News

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its  Container Platform – an enterprise-grade Kubernetes-based container platform designed for both cloud-native applications and monolithic applications with persistent storage.

The big idea is that enterprise customers can accelerate application development for new and existing apps – running on bare-metal or virtualized infrastructure, on any public cloud, and at the edge.

Onecom partners with Highlight

Posted on November 19, 2019 by - News

Onecom has signed up with cloud-based network monitoring and reporting outfit Highlight to give customers full visibility into the performance of its network and application services.

Based in Hampshire, Onecom has a UK-wide network of regional offices with over 400 staff, serving more than 100,000 customers across the UK and internationally. 

Sophos warns of security risk awareness gap

Posted on November 19, 2019 by - News

There is a significant risk awareness gap between IT leaders like CIOs and CISOs who are charged with protecting the UK’s public sector organisations and their frontline IT teams.

A survey from Sophos said that some of these gaps have a direct impact on IT security. Among the most critical differences, a worrying 55 percent of public sector IT leaders believe their organisation’s digital data is less valuable than that of the private sector, despite the fact that they handle highly sensitive, confidential, personal, and government information.

Mimecast snaps up DMARC Analyzer

Posted on November 18, 2019 by - News

Mimecast swallowed the email security provider DMARC Analyzer to help customers tackle the threat of domain spoofing attacks.

The acquisition will enable customers to address threats at the email perimeter, inside the email network and beyond their immediate purview, ultimately reducing the time, effort and cost effects of domain spoofing, Mimecast said.

DMARC Analyzer offers Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) setup, management and analysis. By combining the solution with Mimecast’s defences, the firm says customers can now further strengthen their cyber resilience with robust visibility into attacks that defraud customers, suppliers and partners.

HP says no to Xerox

Posted on November 18, 2019 by - News

HP board of directors has unanimously rejected Xerox’s takeover offer but is leaving open the possibility of a merger with Xerox under different terms.

In a letter to Xerox CEO John Visentin made public by HP on Sunday, HP’s board said that it has reviewed the “unsolicited” takeover proposal from 5 November and “has unanimously concluded that it significantly undervalues HP and is not in the best interests of HP shareholders.”

“We have great confidence in our strategy and our ability to execute to continue driving sustainable long-term value at HP,” the company said.

Pure Technology has record revenue

Posted on November 18, 2019 by - News

Pure Technology has scored a record revenue of £33 million.

COO Cliff Fox said that its entry onto the Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation’s cloud and hardware frameworks and success on other frameworks as a key driver for growth.

“Historically, we’ve always had some public sector customers but we’ve never had any dedicated effort towards the public sector, and part of the strategy refresh in April was that we thought that it was time now for us to approach that with more emphasis”, Fox said.

Hyperscale Datacentre Market will grow by 24.25 percent

Posted on November 15, 2019 by - News

ResearchAndMarkets.com has added up some numbers and divided by them by its shoe size and reached the conclusion that the hyperscale data centre market will grow at a CAGR of 24.25 percent over the next five years.

In its report, with the riveting title “The “Hyperscale Datacenter Market – Growth, Trends, Forecast (2019-2024),” the outfit defined hyperscale datacentres as a facility owned by the companies to offer cloud spaces for cloud computing and big data storage. It has at least 500 storage cabinets covering 10,000 Sq. Ft of space and has over 5,000 servers connected with an ultra-high-speed fibre network and offers with infrastructural cost to the end-user.

Intelligent automation market to grow

Posted on November 15, 2019 by - News

The intelligent automation market is an area of growth waiting to be exploited by channel companies with their finger on the pulse, according to a report.

The Infoholic Research study with the catchy title “Global Intelligent Automation Market – Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities, Trends, and Forecast up to 2025”,  forecasts that the global market for intelligent automation will grow, owing to the increased need for the automation of various functions in hardware or software components.

Intelligent automation finds significant interest from all industries in different forms. There is an increasing requirement to reduce resources to carry out back-end processes. The trend of using various software bots for BPM and IT operation automation, along with factory automation, is driving the industries to focus on more automated operations. This is fuelling the intelligent automation market to grow at a CAGR of more than eight per cent to reach a revenue of ~$300 billion by 2025.

Wearables market picking up

Posted on November 15, 2019 by - News

The wearables market is picking up with more than half of consumers owning at least one wearable in the US, according to a new survey by business news and how-to site The Manifest,

More than 13 percent of people plan to invest in a wearable in the next year, demonstrating the growing popularity of fitness trackers and smartwatches.

The smartwatch market will only grow more competitive. Google recently bought Fitbit for $2.1 billion, bringing new opposition to a market currently dominated by Apple.