Canon UK and Ireland will be relocating its head office in Reigate to Uxbridge potentially threatening 450 jobs.
The headquarters, found off Cockshot Hill, Woodhatch , will move after a decision by multinational company to “address efficiency improvements” and outsource finance, business operations and customer service.
Canon has stated this decision means the Reigate office “will have significant over capacity for future requirements”.
A report prepared by Ericsson seems to show that 5G uptake will be faster than expected.
Rapid early momentum and enthusiasm for 5G have led Ericsson to forecast an extra 400 million enhanced mobile broadband subscriptions globally by the end of 2024. The June 2019 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report forecasts 1.9 billion 5G subscriptions – up from 1.5 billion forecasted in the November 2018 edition – an increase of almost 27 percent.
Ingram Micro UK Director Cloud and Advanced Solutions Scott Murphy has warned that while digital transformation is driving the market only 22 percent of channel partners are ready.
Murphy said that digital transformation is the top priority for most UK businesses – including the channel partners who serve them. And in many ways, cloud technology lies at the heart of the transformation journey.
Ingram asked 250 UK-based cloud end users from a variety of mid-market and enterprise organisations, alongside 50 cloud resellers themselves, compiling their answers into a white paper: ‘The intelligent future of cloud’ and discovered that while there is a huge opportunity out there for channel partners – it’s being lost.
Cloud-based solutions provider Mphasis has teamed up with business process outfit Camunda, to gain a stronger digital foothold for existing clients and partners and further grow presence in global markets across financial services.
The pair believe that the partnership will increase value-added services with Camunda’s cloud and BPM technology, capturing larger market share, enhance onboarding services for new clients, increase top-line revenues and upgrade bottom-line operations with partner tools and frameworks.
Cloud Workforce firm HFX has announced a partnership with Serenity a supplier of expense management software, HR case management and workflow solutions, and staff contract management solutions.
The idea is to supply a range of solutions that save time and boost compliance across the HR and Finance departments, managing time and expenses.
UK Computer Group acquired the naming rights to Misco and has started recruiting a team to reboot the reseller.
Misco was founded in New Jersey, United States, and ran a business of mail-order sale of computer supplies and accessories. Misco launched its first European subsidiaries concurrently in the United Kingdom and West Germany in October 1985 and Italy in 1986.
The original Misco went out of business in 2017 after a turnaround programme proved unsuccessful. It finally died after HMRC issued it with a winding-up petition over unpaid VAT and credit insurers moved to reduce their exposure to the firm.
Boston announced the first European offering for Nvidia Rapid test drives.
The move brings Nvidia Rapids, a suite of open-source software libraries giving data scientists the freedom to execute end-to-end data science and analytics pipelines entirely on GPU. The result is a cluster of Nvidia T4 GPU-optimised servers running a variety of Rapids frameworks available to customer and data scientists looking to accelerate and scale out their frameworks working in Python.
Beancounters at IDC have noted that while server numbers are down, sales revenues are doing OK thanks to higher ASPs.
A review of the global server market from IDC found that although demand had dropped year-on-year in first quarter by 5.1 percent the higher unit prices improved revenue by 4.4 percent.
Low-end and mid-range servers fared much better than higher-end products, which suffered a 24.7 percent decline, a second consecutive quarter of decline.
Cloud Workforce Management outfit HFX , has announced a partnership with Selenity a supplier of expense management software, HR case management and workflow solutions, and staff contract management.
The pair will supply a range of solutions that save time and boost compliance across the HR and Finance departments, managing time and expenses.
Daisy Partner Services has transformed itself into Allvotec and opens for business today with its headquarters in Northampton.
The indirect company has ambitious plans for the future, CEO Glen Williams (pictured) told ChannelEye.
Williams said that the company has the largest independent engineer field force in the UK with 1,400 employes and revenues of £100 million. It manages technology and communications for a number of large organisations in the UK. It provides its service offerings to OEMs, VARs and managed service providers, he said.
Williams said the company is already eyeing up acquisitions to further its spread.
Woking-based Lemongrass Consulting, which specialises in SAP Enterprise, Business One and Business By Design on AWS, has achieved Amazon’s PN Premier Consulting Partner status.
Premier Consulting Partner is the highest tier within the APN and is awarded to a small and exclusive number of high-quality partners with a proven track record that has made significant investments in technical skills and AWS expertise to help drive successful customer outcomes.
SD-WAN outfit Silver Peak announced a new partnership with NSC. The idea is to expand its global IT services portfolio with new managed SD-WAN services powered by the business-driven Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform.
NSC serves as a single source provider, offering professional SD-WAN deployment services, white-label managed SD-WAN services to tier one and multi-national service providers and turnkey managed SD-WAN services to new and existing enterprise clients.
Infinidat has announced a Data Rescue Program for IBM customers concerned by Big Blue’s shutdown of its storage innovation centre.
Infinidat developed the programme in response to what it described as an influx of inquiries from IBM customers regarding escalating pressure to transition from high-end to lower-end storage and reports of layoffs across the high-end storage division.
Yieldhub has scored UK fabless ASIC design and supply company EnSilica as a customer.
The Wokingham-based outfit chose Yieldhub for yield management and outlier detection. EnSilica is a provider of custom ASICS to the automotive, industrial and IoT markets. Yieldhub will partner in enabling them to deliver these products.
Deal activity remained strong in security technologies space in 2018, according to analysts GlobalData.
Despite the fluctuating trend in venture capital (VC) funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the security technologies space during 2014-2018, deal activity remained stable in 2018 compared to 2017, primarily due to the hype around the cybersecurity segment and companies’ strategies to strengthen their market position, said GlobalData.
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