Avaya announced the appointment of Steve Joyner as managing director of the UK and Ireland (UK&I). Reporting to Ronald Rubens, vice president, Europe, Joyner will lead the company’s evolution into a cloud-centric communications provider and run Avaya’s global cloud strategy in the UK&I.
Joyner began at Avaya following the acquisition of Nortel in 2009 and has held multiple engineering, sales and channel roles in the UK and the Middle East over his 30-year career.
IBM has closed 2019 with thin sales growth which was saved by a thriving cloud business and propped up by its acquisition of Red Hat.
Revenues increased by 0.07 percent for the fourth quarter of 2019 to $21.78 billion. For the full 2019 year, revenues increased by 0.2 percent to $77.1 billion adjusted for divested businesses and currency. Without these adjustments, revenues dipped by 3.1 percent. Pre-tax operating income, however, dropped by 10 percent to $10.17 billion.
Q Advisors and Unreasonable Group announced a strategic partnership to support high growth ventures tackling social, financial and environmental challenges and help scale their solutions globally.
Using Unreasonable Group’s immersive programmes, media arm, and global network of industry thought leaders and Q Advisors’ deep expertise in supporting high growth technology entrepreneurs, the partnership will help drive resources to accelerate growth for ventures focused on developing new frontier technological solutions that are solving social and environmental challenges globally, as well as help them reach a broader array of stakeholders.
Oracle has appointed former VMWare channel chief Ross Brown as vice president of its Cloud GTM division.
Brown’s LinkedIn profile has revealed his new position as Oracle’s Cloud chief, where he will be responsible for leading its go-to-market operations. According to the brief entry on his page, he will lead the segment from Seattle, Washington, where the firm has recently expanded its cloud infrastructure workforce.
Brown joins the business after 20 months off after leaving his role as senior vice president of VMWare’s WW Partners and Alliances division.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who is widely credited with reviving Microsoft with a move to the cloud, has said that Azure was the brainchild of the shy and retiring former CEO Steve Ballmer.
Nadella told CNBC that Ballmer played a key role in the refocus to cloud.
“The guy who gave me permission to do all this was Steve Ballmer. He wanted us to be bold and go at the cloud very aggressively and that is what we did”, Nadella said.
Paragon Micro has revealed plans to launch in the UK in April, with offices in Sheffield and London.
The US VAR has annual sales of $150 million and is an HPE, Dell and Cisco partner.
CEO Jeff Reimer said: “International expansion has long been part of our plan as it presents a tremendous growth opportunity for Paragon Micro given that a large percentage of the IT market is located outside the US.
Kaspersky has improved its licensing to encourage MSPs to use the outfit this includes rolling out a self-service portal for resellers.
The security player quoted numbers from Ami Partners, that have charted the growth in the MSP market and found that it has almost doubled from 48,000 firms globally in 2016 to an expected 74,000 by next year.
The License Management Portal (LMP) helps MSPs order, manage and report on licences and gives partners that chance to offer users a pay-as-you-go monthly billing plan.
Forrester’s latest research shows that the security model Zero Trust is rapidly becoming the top choice for enterprises and governments.
In the brand-new report with the catchy title “A Practical Guide To A Zero Trust Implementation,” Forrester Principal Analyst and Zero Trust pioneer Chase Cunningham provides a roadmap for security leaders how to implement a successful Zero Trust strategy.
The report said that Zero Trust enables the business while adapting the firm’s security architecture to support new user populations, customer engagement models, rapid cloud adoption, and new IoT devices and sensors.
Davos 2020: delegates need to make a big, bold commitment this year to fintech, according to the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial services and advisory organisations.
Nigel Green, founder and chief executive of deVere Group, comes as world leaders, CEOs, academics, influencers and celebrities head to the Swiss mountain resort of Davos for the 50th annual World Economic Forum (WEF).
Green said: “As it celebrates its landmark 50th year, the World Economic Forum 2020 has the opportunity to champion and enhance the transformation of business, which has been dubbed the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution.’
AMD has nicked Intel’s executive Dan McNamara to take the chipmaker’s EPYC server processor business to the next level following the launch of last year’s second-generation products, code-named Rome.
McNamara’s title is senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Server Business Unit. McNamara was most recently senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Network and Custom Logic Group and served on the company’s executive leadership team.
SME lender Shawbrook Bank has fronted up £17.5 million working capital to Stone Group to help expand its offering within the private sector and the gaming equipment markets.
Stone Group, based in Stafford, near Stoke-on-Trent, has over 25 years’ experience in supplying digital transformation services, including technology hardware, IT support, data security and compliance, maintenance and complementary services to the education and wider public sector in the UK. The business also specialises in IT asset lifecycle management and secure disposal of confidential data for local government departments and law enforcement agencies through its award-winning and fully accredited IT Asset Disposal (ITAD) facility.
Lenovo’s North American data centre channel leader and company channel frontman Stefan Bockhop (pictured), is leaving after a 15-year stint with the company
Bockhop will be replaced by 30-year industry veteran Steve Biondi who has held various top channel and sales roles for Avaya, Oracle, VMware and Biggish Blue.
Lenovo confirmed that Biondi is now head of partnerships and channels for Lenovo’s North American Data Center Group. Bockhop is currently executive director and Lenovo’s North American Data Center Group channel leader.
Biondi worked at IBM for nearly 20 years in various executive positions including vice president of hardware sales for SMB and midmarket in the Americas. He joined VMware in 2009 as vice president, OEM and strategic partner sales for the Americas. He became the global channel supremo and SMB sales leadership position for Avaya in 2015.
Bockhop has been a key figurehead for Lenovo’s channel business over the years and is typically a keynote speaker. Bockhop joined Lenovo in 2005 as director of business partner channels in Canada, leading the company’s channel charge in the country for 12 years before being promoted to head Lenovo’s entire data centre channel business in North America in 2017. Prior to Lenovo, Bockhop had a long career working for IBM in various sales positions.
Amazon has opened its first UK corporate office in Manchester.
The tech giant’s office occupies all six floors of the Hanover Building in the city’s Northern Quarter and measures 90,000 square feet, which the company expects “in time” to house 600 employees.
The online bookseller is looking for software developers, solutions architects and finance analysts across both Amazon and its cloud arm, AWS.
Comms VAR Arrow Business Communications has taken private equity investment from MML Capital Partners to spruce up its buy-and-build strategy.
The deal has handed the firm a £50 million to continue its cunning plan of buying anything which is not nailed down. So far the company has bought eight businesses its most recent acquisition came in December, in the form of comms provider BTL Communications.
Arrow has made changes to its leadership, with previous CEO Chris Russell taking on the role of chairman and Richard Burke, who joined the business in 2017 becoming CEO.
Huawei might be planning on showing advertisements on its upcoming smartphones as a method of bringing in new revenue streams.
According to MySmartPrice , a recent update on Huawei devices contained the recently-unveiled Huawei Mobile Services core. In the Terms and Conditions page of the update, the company talked about plans for the ‘Huawei Ads’ platform which might soon be released to other devices from the company that don’t have the Google Play Services and instead run Huawei Mobile Services.
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