Wayside Technology Group has acquired another UK distributor -VAD Spinnakar.
Spinnakar is an Arcserve, Cloudian and Deep Instinct distributor and Wayside snapped it up for an aggregate purchase price of £9.8 million.
Windsor-based Spinnakar is focused on storage, cloud, security and data management businesses.
It is the latest VAD to be snapped up by Wayside, which bought the parent company of Sigma Software Distribution in 2020.
European Electronique is provided the University of Birmingham with digital support for the Commonwealth Games.
The university was the main campus village hosting athletes during the tournament earlier this year, with the hockey and squash competitions being held there.
Having the university as a customer, European Electronique installed infrastructure to provide around the clock support for the events.
Working with Aruba, the UK systems integrator says it used its engineers while supplying support hardware and networking.
Cisco thinks its supply chain constraints are easing and should get better over the next few months.
The industry has been plagued with component shortages for 18 months and the channel has been managing inventories and customer expectations.
At the time Cisco thought that the situation would improve by the second half of the year. Cisco’s announcement of Q4 and fiscal year numbers, for the period ending 30 July confirmed the trend.
IDC beancounters have warned the printing industry that microchip shipments are likely to be “erratic” for the rest of the year forcing some to move to more black and white solutions.
Most OEMs are seeing demand outstrip supply, especially in higher-speed A4 and A3 colour segments where more microchips are required for manufacturing the products.
The company said that this will have a knock on impact on revenues, cash flow, and profits.
The analyst firm says its figures show that the overall Western European hardcopy market declined 2.6 percent year on year in the second quarter to 4.28 million units.
Football team Arsenal has renewed its partnership with Cyber protection outfit Acronis.
The agreement will see Arsenal get access to the data backup vendor’s portfolio of data protection and recovery services.
The deal ropes in Ingram Micro Cloud as the delivery partner in the relationship.
In a statement Arsenal said: “Our partnership extension gives us access to Acronis’ and Ingram Micro Cloud’s extensive experience in delivering innovative solutions for global sports organisations.”
A new CompTIA report says that resellers are in a greater position of power.
The latest Partner experience trends 2022 from CompTIA shows that relationships between partners and vendors appear to be getting stronger, but the resellers are the ones choosing who to work with.
But the US based survey also revealed that channel partners were being careful in choosing which vendors to work with, which meant those strong relationship were the result of considered decisions.
CompTIA senior director, industry analysis Carolyn April said: “Channel partners enjoy far greater choice of vendors to align with in a marketplace that has expanded in the cloud era.
“Greater choice means greater chance to find the most optimal fit. Proactive vendors understand that they need to step up their game and optimise the experience for partners or watch them go elsewhere.”
Sage has acquired Lockstep as it looks to “broaden its value proposition” for SMBs and expand its digital network.
Lockstep makes cloud native technology we presume for cloud natives. The software automates accounting workflows between companies.
As part of the transaction, Lockstep’s management team will join Sage to help drive the development of its digital network.
Sage said the acquisition is aligned with its ambition to be the trusted network for SMBs.
Expereo has acquired Breeze Networks to boost its UK SD-WAN/SASE operations.
Reigate-based Breeze provides cloud-based network connectivity and security solutions for enterprises and government agencies.
Expereo says the deal builds on its expanding range of services to manage SD-WAN solutions “at scale” to partners and multinational enterprise customers
Expereo CEO Irwin Fouwels, said: “This acquisition comes at an exciting time, as we expand our SD-WAN services to address the growing need for agile, cost-effective cloud access and global network solutions in the market.
Wavenet has snapped up OGL Computer Support and CyberGuard Technologies.
The move makes this the fourth acquisition in the last 15 months for the Solihull based telecoms and technology solutions provider.
Wavenet CEO Bill Dawson said the deal will bring a “wealth of knowledge and experience” to the group.
“It enables the Wavenet Group to broaden its offerings, and enhance the service provided to our customers.”
Jigsaw24 says it secured a record revenue in its FY2022.
The B2B technology solutions provider logged sales of £168.5 million for the 12 months to 31 May 2022, up from £156 million in 2021.
Jigsaw24 says the figures come as there was a growing demand for Apple products from corporates across the UK.
Jigsaw24 CEO Roger Whittle said: “The financial results for our last full year are testament to the strength of our business and the developments we have made during the last 12 months.”
BT has said it is “disappointed” that its workers are going to strike again in a dispute over pay.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) notified the telecoms giant they will be holding two days of industrial action for its BT and Openreach members on 30 and 31 August.
BT workers walked out on July 29 and August 1, the first strike action in 35 years at the telecoms group. But it made no difference to BT which said it will not be reopening its 2022 pay review “having already made the best award we could”.
Brexit is having a negative impact on business, according to almost half of UK IT leaders questioned in a Computing Delta study.
More than 14 percent said the impact of the UK leaving the EU was”negative” with 33 percent judging it to be “somewhat negative.” Only three per ent viewed Brexit as “positive” and six percent thought it was “somewhat positive.”
The global smart home market is expected to experience consecutive years of softening growth before an upward trajectory starts in 2023 according to researchers at Omdia.
The downward trend is attributed to a combination of factors including wage stagnation, increased unemployment, and a large decline in projected retail sales, especially in 2022.
Strong growth, on par with pre-pandemic levels, is expected to return starting in 2023, driven by increased demand in energy management solutions and the impending release of the Matter standard.
Celigo says it wants to react to increased market demand for cloud-based tools by building its channel.
The integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) specialist already works with the channel, but wants more partners
Gert-Jan Wijman, senior director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Celigo said that 80 percent of the companies business has a partner involved
“80 percent is a good percentage, but we are growing rapidly. This year, we have the objective to triple the number of active partners, at least in the EMEA region, because we need to onboard and recruit more partners to keep up with our growth objectives”, he said.
Nutanix is laying off 270 employees after warnings in May of supply chain disruptions and higher-than-expected turnover.
CEO Rajiv Ramaswami warned that supply chain disruptions late in the third quarter, as well as higher-than-expected attrition among its sales employees, put pressure on revenue upsides experienced during the quarter.
The layoffs represent four percent of its global workforce. The cuts are expected to be completed by the end of October.
“As hard as it is to make decisions that impact employees, we believe this will enable Nutanix to be more efficient and flexible going forward [in the future, Ed.] as we navigate a challenging macroeconomic environment”, the company said.
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