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.
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.
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.
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.
Dutch email security firm Zivver wants to establish a UK sales channel to create its second business area.
Zivver has so far signed up VARs RnD Systems Integration and C-STEM, alongside distributor Progress Technology Services (PTS) to deliver its outbound email security solution. In Holland, the company has carved a niche for itself helping companies prevent data leaks linked to human error and helping to ensure compliance under GDPR.
CEO & co-founder Rick Goud (pictured) said a channel first system would work well in the UK. He said the outfit had gained credibility and was not just a startup.
Enterprises plan to aggressively shift investment to hybrid cloud architectures, with respondents reporting steady and substantial hybrid deployment plans over the next five years.
Cloudy outfit Nutanix has released details of its second global Enterprise Cloud Index survey and research report, which states that the vast majority of 2019 survey respondents (85 percent) selected hybrid cloud as their ideal IT operating model.
A survey of more than 5,000 adults in six countries found that messaging and chatbots are becoming widely used, with nearly two-thirds of consumers worldwide saying they’d like the ability to message with brands.
LivePerson’s Consumer Preferences for Conversational Commerce survey looked at consumer attitudes and preferences around brand interactions, messaging, and chatbots. What’s more, the survey showed that as consumer interest in messaging increases, brands need to pay greater attention to conversational design — the ability to evaluate and optimise conversations — to meet customer expectations.
Cloud security spending in the United States is expected to reach $1.93 billion by 2021.
In 2016, the US region spent $675 million on cloud security solutions in total, meaning it will triple in the following years.
According to PreciseSecurity.com the United States represents the leading cloud security spending region in the World, followed by the Asia Pacific with $638 million cloud security costs expected in 2021. With $573 million in expenses on cloud security solutions by 2021, Europe takes third place on this global list. In the same period, The Latin America region is estimated to spend $86 million on cloud security services.
Dutch-founded data protection platform ZIVVER announced it has signed value-added resellers RnD Systems Integration and C-STEM, as well as value-added distributor Progress Technology Services, to deliver its unique outbound email security solution to the UK market.
The plan is to add more VARs before the end of the year.
ZIVVER is bringing its proven technology to the UK via a channel-first approach, helping government and enterprises to prevent data leaks due to human error; improve compliance (including GDPR) and save costs from ineffective communication via fax, snail mail and courier. Its unrivalled, three-in-one solution does so by securing outgoing emails and file transfers throughout the whole communications process, i.e. before, during and after sending.
Dell has been showing off its “Technologies on-demand as-a-service” offerings to its to channel partners at its Dell Technologies Summit shindig in Austin.
As part of this new offering, the company is expanding its consumption portfolio to support Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and the new Dell EMC PowerOne autonomous infrastructure system.
Dell vice chairman Jeff Clarke said the multi-cloud world is here and will only grow, which means customers need on-demand and consistent infrastructure that yield predictable outcomes across all of their clouds, data centres and edge locations,
Juniper off-shoot Mist Systems announced that the first AI-Driven Self-Driving Network for the enterprise has been released to its partners.
The system uses Mist’s AI engine and microservices cloud to streamline IT operations, simplify troubleshooting across wired/wireless domains for network users.
Mist is expanding its platform with a new cloud subscription service for Wired Assurance. This new feature brings data from Juno’s switch telemetry into the Mist microservices cloud and AI engine for simpler operations, shorter mean time to repair and better visibility into end-user experiences. With the following capabilities.
Welwyn Garden City managed office specialist ASL has bought Smart Print.
ASL will be adding the expertise that Smart Print brings to bolster its efforts to establish itself as the first “port of call” for users looking for independent advice around printing and office management.
Managing director of ASL Group. Mark Garius aid Smart Print will add significant value to ASL’s team.
Avaya said that it has expanded global availability of its Device as a Service (DaaS) offering, allowing businesses to acquire the outfit’s latest smart devices with a monthly subscription rather than an upfront purchase.
The move follows the successful introduction in the United States in 2018 and is being rolled out in Europe.
Security outfit Avast announced leadership promotions as part of its cunning plan to boost channel partner support.
Daniel Parks (pictured) is promoted to Sales Director for UK and Rest of World, and Thomas Hefner is promoted to Sales Director for the DACH and Benelux regions, with immediate effect.
Vita Santrucek, GM for Avast Business, said: “One of my areas of focus this year is on ensuring excellence in our products and growth in our partner program. With these promotions, I have assigned additional responsibilities to Daniel and Thomas who will be supporting our delivery in these two core areas and building out our partner channel in their respective geographies. Their contribution will be key to the expansion of our product portfolio, increasing our channel support services, and reinforcing our footprint globally.”
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins (pictured) told the assembled throngs at a 2019 partner shindig that nearly 90 percent of his outfit’s business was through the channel.
He said that Cisco was committed to doing business through its partners and our partners are bringing such value to Cisco customers, particularly as it makes its transition to software, helping customers adopt and gain value out of the software assets.
“I’m sure that’s been part of it, but we’ve just been very committed that as we go through the transition we’ve gone through, we’re going to do it with our partners. I’ve joked with people that in many cases, I don’t know what that might look like, but we are committed to doing it”, he said.
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