Research from Arcserve has found a shift in IT buying behaviour and the resulting evolution of UK channel providers to keep up with on-demand environment and prolific threat landscape.
Cloud transformation and cyberattacks have become commonly discussed topics within the IT community as more business leaders push for digital transformation and ransomware soar to epidemic proportions.
Israeli security company and maker of firewalls, Check Point, is predicting a rise in the use of ransomware in 2020.
It warns that the ransomware, but will not be the standard type of random attack, with it becoming more targeted.
Writing in its bog Check Point is forecasting more sophisticated ransomware attacks coming next year across the business and the public sector: “Attackers are spending time intelligence-gathering on their victims, to ensure they can inflict maximum disruption, and ransoms are scaled up accordingly.”
Cloudy outfits Rubrik and NetApp have announced a merger between their two products.
Rubrik Cloud Data Management’s technology will be integrated with NetApp’s proprietary SnapDiff APIs, creating data services and orchestration product for enterprises. Rubrik and NetApp claim it will provide business continuity via data mobility across the data centre and cloud, decrease time to market for new feature development, increase ROI with smarter data usage, all the while supporting ever-increasing data privacy regulations and compliance.
Agilitas IT Solutions announced the launch of a new partner accreditation scheme.
Dubbed Greensafe, Agilitas’ secure IT recycling and Workplace Support partner, has signed up as its first accredited partner. More specialist partners are expected to join in the next twelve months.
Greensafe has been selected as Agilitas’ first partner to receive accreditation for their assistance in helping Agilitas to deliver its workplace and ITAD offering.
Warwick based EBI.AI has been awarded authorised reseller status of Google Nest smart home devices.
EBI.AI’s most recent collaboration is with Get Living, an operator in the UK’s build-to-rent sector and best known for East Village E20, the former London 2012 Olympics Athletes’ Village.
Google Assistant is a new addition to the EBI.AI communication portfolio.
A CompTIA channel study has found that resellers are clearly aware of the benefits of getting involved with technologies like IoT, 5G and AI because of the margins.
The report found that many are already selling in those categories or internally testing to make sure they can provide them to customers soon.
Channel services outfit, Agilitas IT Solutions announced the launch of a partner accreditation scheme.
It has also named Greensafe, Agilitas’ IT recycling and Workplace Support partner, as its first accredited partner, and aims to accredit a number of other specialist partners over the next year.
Greensafe has been selected as Agilitas’ first partner to receive accreditation for their assistance in helping Agilitas to deliver its latest workplace and ITAD offering.
Manchester-based web hosting business, Miss Group, has secured an increased £20 million debt funding commitment from HSBC UK to support its ambitious international growth strategy.
Miss Group has completed four acquisitions this year and alongside strong organic revenue growth, has increased revenues by 200 percent in the first nine months of 2019, it said.
Customer Communications Management (CCM), company Quadient has announced a reseller partnership with digital and customer experience transformation outfit Espire.
The deal lets Espire resell and support Quadient’s stuff to banking, insurance, travel, education, telecoms and utility sectors across the UK & Ireland, Nordics and Benelux.
Cyber Security Connect UK (CSC UK), a forum for chief information security officers (CISOs), is calling upon UK businesses to take the lead in tackling cyber-crime following the publication of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Annual Review.
Azure founder Deepak Patil has been appointed to lead Dell Technologies’ cloud business to become senior vice president of Dell Technologies Cloud Platforms and Solutions Group.
Patil spent more than 15 years at Microsoft from 2000 to 2015 holding a variety of general manager roles for Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure, Windows Azure Engineering and Global Foundation Services. He was one of the founding members of Microsoft’s public cloud Azure platform, creating the first-ever application to run on Azure while leading the design and growth of Azure.
K3 has warned that its earnings will be “significantly” below market expectations after seeing major client deals fall through.
In a trading update, K3 said that its second half had “started confidently”, but a major new contract then failed to materialise and a “large customer” entered administration. Clients are buying software at a slower pace than anticipated.
Off-payroll working reforms have caused the number of UK IT contractors to decline for the first time in a decade.
Accountancy firm Access Financial says that the number of IT contractors had increased nearly every year since 2008 but declined by 2.4 percent in 2018, from 125,012 to 121,989, according to government figures.
British businesses should change drastically up their game when it comes to being prepared and able to effectively deal with cyberattacks, according to Cyber Security Connect UK (CSC UK), an industry forum for cybersecurity professionals.
The call to action comes during European Cyber Security Month, the EU’s annual awareness campaign that takes place each October across Europe and aims to raise awareness of cybersecurity threats, promote cybersecurity among citizens and organisations; and provide resources to educate and share good practices.
The annual value of Europe’s managed services contracts dropped by more than ₤774.87 million in the third quarter amid recession fears.
Information Services Group’s EMEA ISG Index, which measures commercial outsourcing contracts with annual contract value (ACV) of ₤3.9 million or more, found the ACV of the region’s managed services contracts in the third quarter declined 31 per cent, or ₤792 million, quarter over quarter, to ₤1.8 billion. Compared with the 2018 third quarter, managed services ACV was down 17 percent.
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