Author: Nick Farrell

TD SYNNEX lets go 100 more employees

Posted on September 19, 2023 by - News

Distributer TD SYNNEX let go of around 100 employees two months after the IT distribution giant implemented a voluntary severance programme.

More than 300 employees took the voluntary severance package, and the 100 who have been let go wanted to stay.

Seen leaving the building with their belongings in a photocopy box included sales reps, vendor business and solutions reps, business development managers, and finance employees.

The company said that the layoffs are related to “merger synergies” after the 2021 merger of Tech Data and Synnex.

The UK government pays out on Fujitsu scandal

Posted on September 19, 2023 by - News

The UK government announced that every postmaster convicted because of Fujitsu’s flawed Horizon IT system will be offered hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation.

More than 700 people running small local post offices were found guilty of false accounting and theft between 1999 and 2015 because the Horizon system insisted money was missing. The Post Office and Fujitsu made matters worse by not telling anyone that the software was turning up an unlikely number of criminals.

Reports from Computing Magazine at the time found IT workers in the Post Office and Fujitsu who knew the system was borked and had told their managers.

Some owners of local Post Office were imprisoned or left out of pocket after being asked to make up the shortfalls, while others failed to find other jobs and lost their homes.

Auxilion shunts more cash to the UK

Posted on September 18, 2023 by - News

Managed service outfit Auxilion has cut the ribbon on a centre of excellence as part of its investment plans.

The company has said it will look for businesses to further bolster the UK business.

The firm has ploughed £4 million into the managed services centre of excellence in Sheffield, which accounts for a chunk of the £15 million-plus the firm outlined last year that it would be using to back a UK market development strategy.

The existing service operations centre has been expanded and the centre of excellence will be used to devise fresh tools and technologies to increase efficiency and maintain an innovation pipeline.

Juniper says 5G satellite networks will make a lot of cash

Posted on September 18, 2023 by - News

New research from Juniper Research has found operators will generate $17 billion of additional revenue from Third-generation Partnership Project-compliant 5G satellite networks between 2024 and 2030.

Juniper urges operators to sign partnerships with Satellite Network Operators which will enable operators to launch monetisable satellite-based 5G services to their subscribers.

The analyst said that SNOs possess capabilities to launch next-generation satellite hardware into space, as well as being responsible for the operation and management of the resulting networks.

The new report, Global 5G Satellite Networks Market 2023-2030 offers the most reliable source of data for the market.

Greater Manchester Police hacked through a supplier

Posted on September 15, 2023 by - News

Greater Manchester Police personal details have been hacked after a company was targeted in a cyber attack using a weakness in a business partner.

The firm in Stockport, which makes ID cards, holds information on various UK organisations including some of the staff employed by Greater Manchester Police (GMP).

The hack means thousands of police officers’ names are at risk of being placed in the public domain.

Google slashes jobs within its recruiting organisation

Posted on September 15, 2023 by - News

Search engine outfit  Google is cutting hundreds of jobs within its recruiting organisation as it pulls back on hiring.

Google spokesperson, Courtenay Mencini said that the company will still recruit top engineering and technical talent but has meaningfully slowed the pace of its overall hiring. As a result, it does not need so many recruiters.

Oracle looking to improve numbers with AI

Posted on September 14, 2023 by - News

AI will benefit Oracle as companies seek to build their specialised versions of GenAI programs such as ChatGPT.

Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison said one project that Oracle could provide was a vector database containing anonymised electronic health records and other specialised training data for healthcare companies.

Acumatica appoints Jeff Smits as CIO

Posted on September 14, 2023 by - Moving People

Cloudy Acumatica has announced that tech industry veteran Jeff Smits has been appointed chief information officer (CIO).

He was in the office on September 11, and the company says he will pivotal role in optimising Acumatica’s strategic technology initiatives and support its continued commitment to providing innovative tools to its community of partners, customers and creators.

Dell’Oro says SASE market growing

Posted on September 13, 2023 by - News

A Dell’Oro Group report claims that the SASE market – consisting of SD-WAN and SSE (security service edge) solutions – bucked economic uncertainty with 38 per cent year-over-year revenue growth in 2Q 2023.

The report said that quarterly revenue broke through the $2 billion marker to set a new record. Quarterly revenue has doubled in just ten quarters as enterprises go all in to improve networking and security services in the mobile- and cloud-first era.

Dell taps Brousse as EMEA channel lead

Posted on September 13, 2023 by - News

Grey box shifter Dell has named Alexandre Brousse as its EMEA channel lead.

He succeeds Anwar Dahab, who was promoted to lead Dell in France.

Dell said Brousse will work with the EMEA channel team to deliver a “customer-centric” and “partner-empowered” ecosystem.

Brousse has been with Dell for 18 years, most recently leading channel sales for Western Europe.

Wilko goes under

Posted on September 12, 2023 by - News

More than 10,000 staff will lose their jobs at troubled UK household goods outfit Wilko, administrators said Monday.

Last-ditch talks on a rescue deal with the owner of the HMV music store chain collapsed.

Canadian businessman Doug Putman had been in talks with administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to buy some 200 shops operated by Wilko, which went bust in August.

Newsbridge scores French basketball contract

Posted on September 12, 2023 by - News

The French Federation of Basketball (FFBB) has deployed Newsbridge’s , Cloud Media Hub and mobile app to improve the efficiency of content archiving, discovery, and sharing.

The Cloud Media Hub enables FFBB to quickly share highlights with clubs, players, partners, journalists, sponsors, and more.

FFBB’s archive head Simon Guionnet said that the outfit had amassed an shed loads of content, including more than 1,300 hours of videos and more than 120,000 photos.

“Newsbridge’s Cloud Media Hub simplifies the way we store, manage, and share live and archived content, providing us with instant access to highlights from anywhere in the world. All of this was done incredibly quickly, with the Newsbridge team moving more than 100 years of archived content from our legacy system to a custom-built Cloud Media Hub within just four weeks.”

Computacenter reports 26.8 per cent revenue growth

Posted on September 11, 2023 by - News

Computacenter reported a 26.8 per cent revenue growth to £3.5 billion in the first half of 2023.

While gross income climbed 29.9 per cent to £5.1 billion for the first six months of 2023.

The LSE-listed company said it continued significant programme of strategic initiative expenditure to underpin its long-term resilience, competitiveness and growth with an additional expected spend of circa £13 million in FY23 compared to FY22.

First half results also showed improvement in cash as inventory levels reduced towards normal levels. Inventory fell by £217.2 million since the highpoint in Q3 2022.