VMware is sprucing up its partner programme next year and efforts are already underway to make sure the channel is ready.
The outfit wants to see more specialisations as part of the master services programme, with partners able to gain skills in VMware Cloud on AWS Master Services Competency, network virtualisation, cloud management and automation, data centre virtualisation and desktop and mobility options.
AMD CEO Lisa Su said 2019 will be a “revenue growth year” thanks to its next-generation, 7-nanometer processors and GPUs which will appear in the second half of the year.
AMD saw first quarter revenue fall by 23 percent, but the company’s guidance for full-year revenue was unchanged from the last few months, with the expectation that it will grow in the high single digits.
Rival Intel lowered its full-year revenue forecast by $2.5 billion last week from a previous estimate, showing that the company expects annual revenue to decline this year.
Beancounters at research firm IHS Markit have slashed its outlook for 2019 semiconductor sales by more than 10 percentage points, projecting revenue to decline 7.4 percent to $446.2 billion.
The outfit had predicted 2.9 percent growth for 2019 revenue in December.
This would mean that the semiconductor industry is facing its biggest annual percentage decrease since 2009, when chip sales dipped by nearly 11 percent.
Expenses master Oracle CEO Mark Hurd warned hacks at Oracle Media Day that overall growth in the U.S. and global economies is not translating directly to increases in B2B spending.
He said that midmarket businesses were seeing an infusion of capital in the current environment, which has supercharged Oracle’s NetSuite business.
Healthcare IT security outfit Imprivata has released what it has called the first end-to-end Identity and Access Management (IAM) Cloud Platform for healthcare in partnership with Microsoft.
The Platform, anchored by Imprivata’s leading solution portfolio and commitment to building trusted digital identities, and the world-class scale and security of Microsoft’s cloud identity platform, Azure Active Directory, will address the challenges that healthcare customers face down the digital transformation road.
GDPR’s one-year milestone is less than a month away, but organisations are still failing to protect personal data, according to ESET researchers.
Unencrypted USB devices are still widely used by businesses despite the fact that unsecured data could lead to GDPR fines. New research conducted by global security company ESET, and Kingston Technology, a world leader in technology products, shows that 55 percent of business don’t encrypt their removable devices, leaving themselves exposed to data leaks.
Network services outfit Comms365 has launched a package of Fixed IP 4G Data services.
Partners canto offer their customers the choice of two new ‘Mega-Data’ products; a 500GB and 1TB data bundle. Both options will enable high speed, large data backup to FTTC and Ethernet.
Fruity cargo cult Apple said that the chip shortage was responsible for its Macs not selling as well as it hoped.
For the three months ending 30 March 2019 Jobs Mob saw a sales drop of five percent, to $58 billion. Apple was down iPhone and Mac sales.
Jobs’ Mob however chose to spin more positive news in areas like services, iPad and wearables.
Tin box shifter Michael Dell returned to his early strategy of mocking his rivals and said that HPE was not doing that well in the cloud.
Dell claimed that the vendor’s multi-cloud strategy “isn’t going so well” soon after announcing integrations between Dell EMC, VMware and Microsoft in addition to launching Dell Technologies’ Cloud Platform.
Rubrik, the cloud data management company, has appointed Wendy Bahr as Chief Commercial Officer. Bahr is responsible for Rubrik’s MSP, Global System Integrator and Channel Partners, Hardware and Software Alliances, Inside Sales and Professional Services teams.
Bahr joins Rubrik from an 18-year tenure at Cisco , where she most recently served as the Senior Vice President of the Global Partner Organization. In this role, she was responsible for managing and supporting 60,000+ global partners who represent the company’s primary route to market.
While it is still doing well, Computacenter is reporting that it is getting harder to make cash in the EU.
The UK-based outfit saw revenue growth in the first quarter despite a large software deal in the same quarter last year creating a tough comparison.
But in an update to the London Stock Exchange, the channel giant said that both sales and profitability were ahead of first quarter 2018, even before taking the acquisitions of FusionStorm and Misco’s Netherlands business into account.
You would think that EasyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou would have been miffed when he discovered a VAR with the name “Easy” in the title in Portsmouth.
Easy Networks was founded in 1995 by Richard Gwilliam who admitted that when he was invited for a chat with Sir Stelios he thought he was going to be grilled about intellectual property and use of the brand name.
Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company KPN has teamed up with iland, a global cloud service provider of secure and compliant Infrastructure (IaaS), disaster recovery (DRaaS) and Backup-as-a-service (BaaS).
The partnership is part of a cunning plan to put iland’s DRaaS solutions on the shelves for KPN business customers. KPN stated that the partnership was motivated by the security and scalability of iland’s solutions and its rapid implementation capabilities, while iland cited the alliance with KPN as being evidence of its concerted and strategic approach to a more channel-focused direction across EMEA.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) made up half of the vendor’s overall operating income in its first quarter of the year.
Cloudy services grew its operating income by 59 percent to $2.2 billion which was an increase from $1.4bn in the same period in 2018.
Amazon’s net sales grew 17 percent to $59.7 billion in the first quarter its slowest since 2015.
Bean counters at Gartner have added up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and worked out that AI, IoT and automation are the areas businesses must adopt if they are to boost the efficiency of their supply chains.
Gartner research vice president Christian Titze seems somewhat inevitable that AI will play a vital role in enabling business leaders to automate processes such as demand forecasting, planning production volume needs and equipment maintenance predictions to ensure the production line can cope with demand.
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