Bytes has seen its gross income increase by 26 percent for the 12 months ending 28 February 2022 to £1.21 billion.
CEO Neil Murphy (pictured)said that Bytes Revenue surged by 13.8 percent to £447.9 million over the same period.
The company has reported operating profits meanwhile jumped by 57 percent year on year to £42.2 million, while adjusted operating profits, which are based on its underlying operations and ignores one-off costs, soared by 23.6 percent.
Datatec has posted a double-digit rise in both revenue and profits for the year as both Westcon and Logicalis aced their results.
Revenues for the technology group were up 12.8 percent to $4.6 billion while EBITDA climbed 30.3 percent to $154.5 million.
Datatec CEO Jens Montanana said the group delivered a strong operational and financial performance across all divisions during FY22 despite global semiconductor shortages and ongoing supply chain constraints which have resulted in a growing backlog.
“While we see continued demand for our products and services across the world, and have positioned our operations to take full advantage of this, the supply chain headwinds compounded by various factors, including the war in Ukraine, lockdowns in China and global inflationary pressures will impact our performance in 2023”, he said.
Microsoft has promised to change its licensing practices and overall principles to “level the playing field” for local cloud providers in a bid to see off European anti-trust watchdogs.
Brad Smith, Microsoft president, outlined the changes after the Financial Times pointed to the potential for new antitrust action against the company in Europe. Critics said the company was tying Windows and Office to Azure to fuel its cloud growth.
The changes include the ability for European cloud providers to offer Windows and Office on a hosted basis as part of their own solutions, independent of Microsoft’s cloud platform.
Fujitsu is teaming up with AWS to accelerate the “digital transformation” of the finance and retail industries.
Under the move, the Japanese technology giant creates new offerings that are a new part of the FUJITSU Hybrid IT Service which is Fujitsu’s cloud service.
The company says it will use AWS Professional Services to develop and operate new systems as well as modernisation and in-house development of support services for existing systems.
Former VMware CEO [Kicking] Pat Gelsinger said he has mixed feelings about the outfit’s potential merger with Broadcom.
Gelsinger left VMware to take control of the Intel executive drinks cabinet after making VMware what it is today. He said that he hopes the deal will make VMware a more “compelling, innovative growth story”.
However he said: “I’m sort of mixed on the current thinking. If it helps VMware be a more compelling, innovative growth story, then it’s good – if it does not, then it’s not good.”
Broadcom is in talks to buy VMware, the latest in a string of software acquisitions for a company that made its early money in semiconductor chips and hardware. Gelsinger who now helms Intel Corp. was speaking in Davos, Switzerland to Bloomberg TV when he was asked about the deal.
Ofcom’s December 2021 annual report has found that there were more than 19.3 million homes with gigabyte broadband.
This figure was 66 per ent up from 13.7 million (47 percent) since the last update. Much of the large increase was attributed to Virgin Media O2’s December 2021 announcement that it had made its network gigabit-capable.
A third (9.6 million) of all homes can now get full-fibre packages that offer faster and more reliable internet. This is up from the 21 per cent Ofcom reported in May 2021, and up from 28 percent in the four months between September 2021 and January 2022, with just under 9.6 million homes now covered.
Ofcom said that the boost was due to deployments by the larger fibre infrastructure operators but supported by a number of smaller providers across the UK serving individual communities and regions.
Gartner’s 2022 Magic Quadrant For Oracle Cloud Application Services show that 19 Companies Generate $15.4 billion between them
Big G said that demand for Oracle Cloud application services continues to increase as total annual cloud revenue for the company currently stands at over $11 billion, growing at a double-digit clip year after year.
A big chunk of the cash in Oracle cloud sales growth accruing for many large channel partners including the likes of Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), according to Gartner’s new 2022 Magic Quadrant for Oracle Cloud Application Services, Worldwide.
Just 19 vendors who made Gartner’s Magic Quadrant cleaned up earning $15.4 billion in total revenue from Oracle cloud application services last year, up from $12.5 billion year over year.
Barracuda president and CEO Hatem Naguib said that his outfit’s moves in the digital transformation industry have been validated over the lat two years.
He said that digital transformation made customers realise that traditional security was not cutting the mustard and they needed a much more elevated level of security. ”
Speaking to the gathered throngs at Barracuda Discover22 Naguib said that the market has “fundamentally changed”.
“Customer’s environments have become far less centralised and far more distributed. Now they have to worry about cloud access, individuals being at home and having an online presence. Nobody buys on-prem software anymore’ and there is a proliferation of SaaS and SASE,” he said.
Cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf is aiming to ramp up its sales team in the UK.
For those not in the know, Arctic Wolf launched in EMEA in April 2021. Since then, the company says its partner programme has seen “significant growth”, reaching 35 partners, while experiencing increasing demand for its Security Operations Cloud.
The firm has also sealed partnerships with Formula One’s Oracle Red Bull Racing and Premier League football club Wolverhampton Wanderers, adding to its roster of partnerships with over 30 professional sports teams worldwide.
Exertis’ profits have increased over the course of a year as demand fell.
The distributor has posted its financial results for the year ending 31 March 2022, saying it had revenues of £4.6 billion which was up 3.6 percent increase from the year before. Operating profit was £81.7 million up 12.8 percent from the previous 12 months.
Exertis said its growth was driven by contributions from acquisitions completed during the year, with strong performance being seen in North America.
The UK business experienced a “significant level of supply constraints and reduced demand for consumer products as the pandemic eased”.
Econocom is on the brink of closing multiple M&A deals across Europe.
The Euronext-listed reseller, which generated revenues of €2.5 billion in full-year 2021, wants to double its turnover and reach €10 billion in sales by 2030.
The target is part of a new business plan which was formulated last year after several years of transformation for Econocom.
In 2018 the reseller had an annus horribilis and issued a profit warning to investors after recurring operating profits for the first six months of the year plummeted by 43 percent to €34 million which sent its share price into a steep decline.
Quocirca’s Cloud print services report for 2022 claims that the next few years will see a move to cloud printing and print management services.
The report looks at what will happen in the market between now and 2025, with it clear that a shift to the cloud is going to be one of the main developments.
Cloud services were flagged as the top investment area, and the shift to hosted comes at a time when 45 percent of customers have implemented remote print job submission options for hybrid workers.
Customers felt it was often more secure than on-premise options, as well as a way of helping to reach so-called sustainability targets.
Fruity and nutty cargo-cult Apple has finally given up on servers and effectively ended its long history of poor networking technology.
MacOS Server pre-dated Mac OS X by a year, launching initially in 1999. One of its main feature was Open Directory, which launched within Mac OS X Panther Server. It was a poor man’s version of Microsoft’s Active Directory and was designed to manage Macs, user accounts, and any settings on Mac-based networks.
It was part of the life of publishers and newspapers which remained Mac based even when common sense suggested they would be better off with something that did not fall asleep on press day or slow to a crawl when a page needed saving.
Microsoft’s channel boss Rodney Clark has quit his job of 24 years and is headed for greener pastures.
Clark has worked for Vole for 24 years and took up the role of corporate vice president of global channel sales and channel chief last year.
He is leaving the company to take up a new role as an executive officer at a publicly-traded company that partners with Microsoft.
According to a blog post written by Nick Parker, Microsoft corporate vice president of global partner solutions, the company expects to have a new leader in place by the beginning of its new fiscal year in July.
PC shipments in Western Europe fell during the first quarter for 2022 following supply bottlenecks and increasing geopolitical tensions.
Beancounters at Canalys found that 15.8 million units of desktops, notebooks and workstations were delivered in first quarter 2022, down three percent on the first quarter 2021.
Despite the fall, Canalys says shipment numbers are still better than they were before the pandemic .
Research analyst Trang Pham said that commercial demand is strong as multiple markets have officially moved toward business-as-usual operations. In fact, nearly 60 percent of devices shipped in Western Europe in Q1 were for commercial use.
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