Category: News

SoftwareONE acquires Intelligence Partner

Posted on January 11, 2021 by - News

Cloudy SoftwareONE has bought Intelligence Partner, a Google Cloud services company serving the Spanish, Brazilian and Middle Eastern markets. The acquisition expands SoftwareONE’s Google Cloud capabilities, strengthening its ability to serve customers with multi-cloud strategies in Europe.

Headquartered in Madrid, Spain, Intelligence Partner (www.intelligencepartner.com) offers the complete portfolio of Google Cloud products, along with related consulting, migration and managed services. The company is a Google Cloud Premier Partner with expertise in Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), Google Maps, Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Analytics and CRM.

Intel makes channel changes

Posted on January 11, 2021 by - News

Chipzilla is rolling out its Intel Partner Alliance today with the big idea of making it easier for the channel to take advantage of online tools with a redesigned portal.

Intel wants to unify disparate programmes and to bolster the support it can give online. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, partner demand for training has increased substantially.

The Intel Partner University and Solutions Marketplace have been added to the portal and to unify all of its programmes under one umbrella, with including Technology Provider, IOT Solutions Alliance and Cloud Insider.

Miss Group picks up Pickaweb

Posted on January 11, 2021 by - News

Web hosting outfit, Miss Group, has acquired UK-headquartered Pickaweb as part of its buy and build strategy.

The acquisition of Pickaweb is the twelfth acquisition for Miss Group over the last two years and adds a further 7,000 SME customers across the UK and Spain. Pickaweb will be integrated into existing brands within the Group, with the UK business joining Hostek UK and Pickaweb’s Spanish business integrating with Profesional Hosting in Spain.

In February 2020, private equity investor, Perwyn acquired a majority position in Miss Group to support the growth ambitions of the business through international expansion and ongoing M&A, and Pickaweb is the third acquisition to be completed under Perwyn ownership.

Sapphire snaps up ServiceNow

Posted on January 8, 2021 by - News

Enterprise software applications outfit Sapphire Systems has snapped up ServiceNow partner ITOM Solution.

ITOM Solution specialises in IT operations management, AiOps, application performance management, and IoT (internet of things) cloud services and is a partner of ServiceNow, Cisco AppDynamics and Dynatrace.

Ian Caswell, CEO at Sapphire Systems, said: “Our acquisition of ITOM is pivotal in pursuing our vision to become a leading provider of digital operating platforms, which capitalise on the cloud to optimise the value of enterprise software investment, while reducing both risk and cost.

Most IT pros want another job

Posted on January 8, 2021 by - News

Almost a third of IT professionals want to change careers and move sectors despite the pandemic.

Research from recruitment firm Reed shows that staff are hacked off at employer behaviour, work-life balance and re-evaluated priorities during lockdown.

The number of those looking for new jobs increased to 36 percent, an increase of nine per cent compared to this time last year.

Reed Technology Chris Adcock said: “Without IT teams the overnight switch to working from home would have not been possible – these professionals have been vital parts of keeping the economy going. But many employees know their value or feel that they have been poorly treated at this time – perhaps in part to clocking long hours as transitional periods continue. In this sector, it has never been truer to say that there are some highly talented people looking to jump jobs, or who have been made redundant as a result of the current climate.”

Larsen & Toubro Infotech joins Snowflake elite

Posted on January 8, 2021 by - News

Larsen & Toubro Infotech became an Elite Services Partner of Snowflake, the Data Cloud company.

Elite Partner represents the highest level of partnership in Snowflake Partner Network and was awarded due to LTI doing rather well on Snowflake’s Data Cloud.

LTI has also become the maiden partner for Snowcase, a programme that Snowflake is launching to develop and market industry-specific solutions to accelerate cloud data transformation journey of enterprises.

UK government, BT, fail kids on internet front

Posted on January 7, 2021 by - News

As we reported yesterday, a lack of foresight and even hindsight by the UK government has left some children high and dry on the lack of laptops.

But while it’s all very well having a laptop, if an underprivileged kid wants to study online that obviously requires a secure and reliable internet connection.

We have contacted BT as to whether it has been approached to tender for a cheaper interweb connection for kids maybe with a laptop but no way to conduct “online learning”. We have also dropped a line to the government.

As usual, BT’s really crap PR network has failed to respond to our urgent questions. So no change there. BT has failed to communicate anything for the last 40 years.  It is the backbone of the interweb, in the UK.

The BBC is inviting people to contribute laptops &c. But Auntie Beeb seems to have forgotten the lack of web access.

Agilitas sees 21.8 percent profit growth

Posted on January 7, 2021 by - News

Global channel services provider Agilitas IT Solutions, recently announced a 21.8 percent year-on-year increase in profits as the result of consistent company growth, geographic expansion.

Thanks to increased supply chain automation, Agilitas has seen its turnover grow to £14.038 million with EBITDA earnings amounting to £3.829 million. This represents 75 percent of business being associated with recurring revenue streams, plentiful new logo wins, and partners benefiting from the leverage and aggregation of recent infrastructure investment, it said.

Agilitas introduced six new service offerings for its partners that include SMART logistics, EPOS and Printer maintenance and Device-as-a-Service. New additions to its channel partner portfolio include ‘Born in the Cloud’ providers who are adopting Agilitas’ software enabled Inventory-as-a-Service to bolster their own service proposition.  

TIBCO finishes Information Builders merger

Posted on January 7, 2021 by - News

TIBCO has successfully closed the acquisition of Information Builders following its announcement in October to buy it. The acquisition marks the addition of ibi’s data management and analytics capabilities to the advanced TIBCO Connected Intelligence platform.

The formal integration of Information Builders into TIBCO began in early January, following the end of Information Builders financial year-end on 31 December 2020.

Tech Data appoints Dixon and expands SureStep team

Posted on January 7, 2021 by - News

Cloudy outfit Tech Data has appointed Darren Dixon as Microsoft business unit manager and expanded its Microsoft SureStep team to provide enhanced support to more Microsoft partners and ensure they understand and reap the full benefits from the programmes and resources that Tech Data and Microsoft provide.

Dixon joined Tech Data eight years ago as IBM Business Development Manager and spent the last three years as Tech Data’s business manager for Lenovo Data Centre and Nutanix. In total, he has 23 years of experience working in distribution account management.

Laptops: UK government consigns children to teaching hell

Posted on January 6, 2021 by - News

Promises by government ministers that children will be provided machines so they can learn online are untrue, it has emerged. There is a huge shortage of PCs because of increased demand, so reducing supplies.

There’s a shortage of components too, which has exacerbated the situation – as reported on fudzilla.com.

A separate investigation by ChannelEye has revealed the true state of affairs in the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and the northern bit of Ireland is way worse than parents might begin to imagine.

Sources at many different vendors told ChannelEye that there is a huge shortage of components to build laptops, and that compromises the bald statement that the UK government will let kids access online teaching through laptop computers is, basically, interesting.

An unnamed major Chinese/Taiwanese manufacturer said today:  “The DfE [Department for the Environment] did a major buy in the spring and there’s another one now. The interesting bit of data is how the f*** anyone can supply them… all very well sending out tenders but the components are in major short supply.”

The PC distributors are also in major panic mode too, attempting to fulfil orders. One distie, who declined to be named, told ChannelEye: “It’s all very well to be under some rule, but we are being faced by shortages and restrictions on the borders. We distribute PCs. But if there are no PCs, how can we distribute them?”

According to SchoolWeek, it is a bit of a mare, and fulfilment is nigh impossible.

ChannelEye says bye bye to 2020

Posted on December 23, 2020 by - News

We’re taking a break over the Yuletide season and will be back on the scene with the channel machine in early January 2021.

Have a great time over the holiday season and, hopefully, 2021 will be a lot brighter than the more than dreadful 2020.

 

 

Dubber snaps up Speik

Posted on December 23, 2020 by - News

Aussie based Dubber which does Unified Call Recording & Voice Intelligence has snapped up Speik a UK-based provider of call recording and PCI Compliance solutions.

THe move is part of Dubber’s cunning plan of putting AI on every phone, transforming voice data into a source of value for Enterprises and Governments globally.

Speik was formed in 2019 through a merger of Aeriandi and Voxygen. Voxygen had been supplying a hardware-based recording platform to Telefonica and Aeriandi had been providing PCI compliance solutions in conjunction with leading UK service providers including Vodafone and Gamma. Speik is headquartered in Oxford and has 38 employees in the UK and Europe.

LGC buys Safefood 360°

Posted on December 22, 2020 by - News

LGC announced the acquisition of Safefood 360°, a suppljer of food safety and supplier management solutions platform.

The acquisition expands LGC’s supply chain assurance offering which includes BRCGS’ leading certification scheme, Informed Sport and Informed Choice nutritional supplement endorsement marks and AXIO Proficiency Testing.

Safefood 360° supports compliance with major food safety and supplier management requirements globally and offers users the opportunity to manage quality-reporting, workflow, documentation and audit requirements effectively and efficiently, as well as driving continuous improvement in operations.

Ian Kilpatrick exits Novias

Posted on December 22, 2020 by - News

Ian Kilpatrick has departed Nuvias and set up a new venture designed to encourage children into STEM careers.

Kilpatrick co-founded Wick Hill in 1978 before it was flogged to Rigby Group as a $150m-revenue cybersecurity VAD in 2015.

His next venture is designed to encourage young people into STEM careers, with a focus on primary schools and particularly getting more girls and minorities involved in science and engineering.

The business is called STEM Generations and will sell workstations into primary and secondary schools to encourage adoption of STEM learning into curriculums, where Kilpatrick says where investigative science has lagged since it was removed from SATs in 2009