HP saw double-digit revenue growth in managed print services during its latest quarter, partly offsetting the company’s continued decline in supplies revenue.
HP’s recently appointed CEO, Enrique Lores, said MPS partners have been critical to the growth.
“We are getting great momentum with our channel partners in the contractual space, and this momentum is now translating into sales.”
Tin box shifter Dell reported mixed results for its fiscal third quarter. Profits were better than expected, but revenues were slightly below Wall Street’s projections. Dell reduced its full-year forecast for revenue, due in part to tight supplies of Intel microprocessors.
For the quarter ended 1 November Dell posted revenue of $22.8 billion, up two percent year over year, but slightly below the Wall Street consensus forecast of $23.04 billion. Non-GAAP profits were $1.75 a share, ahead of the Street’s consensus forecast of $1.62.
Beancounters at a cybersecurity firm 
found that 40 percent of large UK businesses expect to be cloud-only by 2021, with 70 per cent expecting to be cloud-only at some pointin the future.
However, establishing who is responsible for cloud security in an organisation is struggling to keep pace.
The chancellor of Germany today called for European countries to adopt a common front on the future of 5G.
Reuters reports that Angela Merkel told German politicians that individual countries taking their own stance on relationships with China could lead to disaster, not for China but for Europe.
Her message obviously refers to Chinese company Huawei, blacklisted by the USA because of concerns its 5G equipment could pose a security threat.
America has so far failed to provide evidence for this.
The US administration has urged its allies to avoid using Huawei kit, but European countries appear to be reluctant to follow suit.
MSSP Optiv has confirmed it is “downsizing” of its UK operation, claiming the move is temporary as it turns its attention to M&A.
Specifically, the Top 200 MSSP is downsizing its UK efforts near-term — through Optiv says it remains committed to a global strategy.
“In January 2018, we expanded our global footprint to the UK, predicated on a strategy of growth by acquisition. Optiv evaluated 40 different European companies and simply couldn’t justify the high valuations of these companies. After a comprehensive strategic review, we’re downsizing our London-based organic operations. We remain committed to serving the European market, clients, partners and prospects”, the outfit said.
The company said that operations and investment in Canada and India are not impacted. In fact, it was expanding its space in both locations. Optiv’s first Canadian-based security operations centre (SOC) should open in the first quarter of 2020 and it is exploring the possibility of leasing an additional floor in its Bangalore office to accommodate as many as 70 additional new hires on its India team next year.
“Optiv has a proud history of serving clients in Europe and in 70+ countries around the world, and that is not changing. We plan to consider M&A opportunities again in the future, once European valuations right size. We remain 100 per cent committed to our international strategy and to delivering innovative cybersecurity solutions that create simplicity and confidence for clients around the world”, the company said.
Juniper Networks said it had successfully trialled delivering 400Gbps Ethernet live traffic over 1,300 miles. The trial was conducted in conjunction with SCinet, the Supercomputing 2019 Conference’s high-capacity network. SCinet used Juniper’s PTX10003 Packet Transport Router to deliver, it’s claimed, unprecedented capacity, flexibility and programmability.
This field trial marks an important step toward progressing the transition to 400GbE network capacity, which is vital to support bandwidth demands from advanced high-performance computing, next-generation cloud data centre architectures, emerging 5G networks, augmented and virtual reality and 4K video production and distribution. The trial held the week of November 18, 2019, was conducted between Denver and Chicago, using Juniper’s PTX10003, the industry’s first fixed-configuration core router to support 400GbE.
Beancounters at GlobalData have decided that the amalgamation of over-the-top (OTT) content into pay-TV offerings will help pay-TV businesses to enhance their service proposition and drive revenue in the coming years, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
According to GlobalData pay-TV Forecast Pack, the adoption rate of OTT video platforms is increasing across all geographies and has built pressure on traditional pay-TV operators to create an interactive content library, provide on-demand video, and update their portfolio with HD and 4K content.
Europe’s technology industry saw a drop of 0.3 percent in overall deal activity during the third quarter of 2019 when compared to the four-quarter average, according to GlobalData’s deals database.
A total of 1023 deals worth $21.18 billion were announced for the region during the third quarter of 2019, against the last four-quarter average of 1020 deals.
Of all the deal types, venture financing saw the most activity in the third quarter of 2019 with 465, representing a 45.5 percent share for the region.
Magma Digital is expanding its management consultancy service.
The outfit has always offered consultancy services but is now expanding that offer, with an expert team providing organisations with a range of support in team development, technical change, strategy design, service design and transformation programmes.
The Salvation Army has opened Strawberry Fields in Liverpool, with a new fully integrated software suite provided by retail tech firm, Cybertill.
A suite of technology will assist in the running of the charity’s operation, including a visitor exhibition with omnichannel ticketing, and EPoS for the gift shop and cafe, simplifying processes by using one integrated software package to manage the site, from beginning to end.
Fujitsu has taken further steps to de-risk its solutions for those partners that are still adapting their business models.
The firm has been adapting its managed service partner support levels over the last 18 months and says its channel , which has been traditionally been based around selling hardware through a CAPEX model, needed a bit of a hand.
The latest innovation from the vendor is to team up with Cyxtera to provide Nutanix Enterprise Cloud on PRIMERGY as a service, making it possible for a partner to offer collocation services without having to invest in the hardware upfront.
More than half of MSPs in Europe have problems trying to persuade customers to adopt the best-fit solutions they recommend, despite a lack of IT security expertise continuing to drive outsource services.
According to Kaspersky Labs’ Maintaining MSP Momentum report, which delves into the challenges and opportunities faced across the evolving IT landscape.
Over the last few years, the MSP market has grown rapidly, with research firm Gartner tipping the global public services market to grow by 17.5 percent in 2019 alone. Reflecting this trend, Kaspersky’s report found that 31 percent of surveyed businesses already outsource cybersecurity – while 21 percent are planning to follow suit over the coming year.
Around a third of companies with 500 employees or less said they do so because they lack the required IT knowledge and expertise within their business.
Getronics’ CEO Nana Baffour (pictured) has cleaned out his desk after a global restructure within the Dutch IT services giant.
Baffour entered the Getronics CEO role in August 2017 after his investment firm, Bottega InvestCo, acquired the company from Aurelius.
The CEO departs as Getronics announces that it has reached an agreement with its stakeholders to take on new capital investment and undergo “a recapitalisation of the business”.
The growth in both large- and small-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks continues its upward trajectory, according to a report by Neustar’s Security Operations Center (SOC).
The third quarter of 2019 Cyber Threats and Trends report reveals that the number of DDoS attacks was up 241 percent in the third quarter of 2019, compared to the same period last year.
The report also confirmed the continued increase in small-scale attacks and the use of multiple threat vectors, as new vectors continue to expand the attack surface that organisations must defend.
London-based SNOMED has partnered with DCHealth as an approved delivery agent of its CT education product throughout China.
DCHealth and SNOMED have struck an agreement to deliver mutually agreed upon SNOMED CT educational content including the organisation’s clinically and “technically curated” Foundation and Implementation courses, with the potential to offer the organisations suite of Authoring courses for delivery.
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