Category: News

IT infrastructure revenues rising

Posted on June 24, 2019 by - News

Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and concluded that while IT infrastructure spending is slowing actual revenue is rising.

Non-cloud infrastructure sales are continuing to decline and any money being spent is going on servers, storage products and Ethernet switches for hosted environments.

However prominent hardware vendors and their channel partners will get to see cloud infrastructure revenues continue to increase and it is predicting that while total spending on cloud IT infrastructure by 4.5 per cent this year in response to slow growth in the market, somehow vendors will keep coining it in.

Cancer Research UK chooses Ideagen

Posted on June 21, 2019 by - News

The Cancer research UK charity will adopt Ideagen’s Q-Pulse and PleaseReview applications for quality management and document review and collaboration

Ideagen will see the company supply it with two of its software applications.

Cancer Research UK will implement Ideagen’s Q-Pulse and PleaseReview products.

Google Cloud outages expose major providers

Posted on June 21, 2019 by - News

Google’s recent Cloud outage shows that many punters would be better off with smaller niche providers.

Earlier this month, Google Cloud experienced an outage which not only affected Google’s products like Gmail and YouTube – other businesses using Google Cloud, such as Shopify, Discord, and Snap were also disturbed.

Later in the month, Google Calendar went down, creating new incentives to Cloud, dedicated server and IP address provider, Heficed’s CEO Vincentas Grinius, said the outage proves that one size does not fit all and personalised solutions, better customer support, and the ability to rapidly adapt to the changing landscape were good reasons for businesses choose alternative providers.

Hotelbeds signs up for Hotelrunner

Posted on June 21, 2019 by - News

Hotelbeds has partnered with HotelRunner – a sales channel management platform and B2B network for OTAs and hotels.

Under the deal HotelRunner increases its connectivity partnership program by helping its 35,000 hotel, hostel and vacation rental partners reach the over 60,000 travel trade buyers that use the Hotelbeds booking platform – including tour operators, travel agencies, airlines and points redemption schemes in over 185 source markets.

It is a great time to be an MSP

Posted on June 20, 2019 by - News

MSP Datto has announced several key leadership positions including a new Chief Sales Officer, Managing Director of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Customer Experience Officer (CXO).

Sanjay Singh was named as Chief Sales Officer. Singh brings more than 20 years of operational and general management experience and is focused on growing the business across the globe.

Rubrik sent to Coventry

Posted on June 20, 2019 by - News

Rubrik, the Cloud Data Management company, today announced it had been selected by Coventry University to protect its user and research data across Nutanix, Microsoft and AWS environments.

The university will use Rubrik Polaris, the industry’s first SaaS platform for Data Management Applications, which includes GPS for global data management and Radar for quick ransomware recovery.

Sports proving a channel opportunity

Posted on June 20, 2019 by - News

Sports are becoming a lucrative field for vendors as venues searching for new and inventive ways to attract fans to events and engage them during games through digital technology.

According to Extreme Networks, there is a pile of technology that a digitalised sports event needs and venues could be just waiting for the right pitch.

John Brams, Director, Hospitality, Sports and Entertainment, Extreme Networks said: “Mobile connectivity is at the heart of today’s game day experience. If you don’t design your network with the ‘second screen’ in mind, your fans won’t stay ‘fans’ for long.”

HPE’s entire portfolio will be as service by 2022

Posted on June 19, 2019 by - News

Former maker of expensive printer ink HPE has promised to offer its entire product portfolio as a service by 2022.

The vendor said the move is part of its “transition into an as-a-service company”, in a move which will let customers buy on a consumption basis through its GreenLake offering.

DXC opens London innovation centre

Posted on June 19, 2019 by - News

 

DXC has opened a new innovation centre in central London and hopes that it will bring in other partners and solve customer digital transformation problems.

The firm is keen to take a collaborative approach and claims it is open minded about working with vendors, SIs and other channel partners that can come in with the skills needed to meet the needs of users. It has been expanding innovation centres across the globe, usually based close to key customers in capital cities, and officially launched the London offering this afternoon.

Ginger dog pairs with Selenity for HR health

Posted on June 19, 2019 by - News

Finance and HR cloud technology outfit Selenity has signed a partnership agreement with organisational development experts Ginger Dog.

 

The idea is that Ginger Dog’s approach to organisation health and Selenity’s cloud products could offer businesses a way to reduce their number of employee relations cases and create a more positive working environment.

Moves towards cloud email is a security opportunity

Posted on June 18, 2019 by - News

Security outfit Barracuda has been asking around and thinks that moves towards Office 365 have created a channel opportunity.

Barracuda international operations’  Chris Ross said that it had surveyed its own partners and 75 percent said that they had customers who had suffered from the growing problem of email account takeover and 57 percent had customers that had seen their brand impersonated negatively.

Ricoh and Agilitas working together

Posted on June 18, 2019 by - News

Global channel services provider, Agilitas IT Solutions, has announced a partnership agreement with a global technology provider, Ricoh UK. The idea is that Ricoh UK will use Agilitas’ expertise across IT inventory management, datacentre technology, and deploying on-site technical resources.

The partnership will let Ricoh UK  deliver specific expertise for customers, deliver on the management of parts and improve on distribution back to vendors.

DVV Solutions teams up with BitSight

Posted on June 18, 2019 by - News

Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) outfit DVV Solutions  has signed up for a strategic managed service provider relationship with security ratings company BitSight.

The pair announced a new channel partnership agreement that will enable DVV to provide BitSight’s Security Ratings Service and add value to DVV’s Third-Party Risk Management and continuous monitoring offerings.

PwC fined £4.55 million for ‘serious lack of competence’

Posted on June 17, 2019 by - News

PwC has been fined £4.55 million after a £20 million hole was found in the accounts of  IT managed services provider Redcentric.

The auditor was found by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to have shown a “serious lack of competence in conducting the statutory audit work”.

Two individuals from PwC were also fined £200,000 each – discounted to £140,000. PwC’s fine was reduced from £6.5 million.

Claudia Mortimore, deputy executive counsel to the FRC, said: “The sanctions reflect the seriousness and extent of the breaches. Professional scepticism was lacking in this audit. Had it been applied, certain material misstatements would likely have been detected. As this is the second Final Decision Notice involving PwC Leeds’ office in recent years, we have mandated that the firm supplements its ongoing monitoring and support for that office, to further improve the quality of audit work in the future.”

The errors were investigated by both the FRC and the Financial Conduct Authority.

Dynasource names Marc Duijndam CEO

Posted on June 17, 2019 by - Moving People, News

Dutch IT service outfit Dynasource announced that Marc Duijndam(pictured) had been named CEO and startupbootcamp leader Ruud Hendriks will also be joining the Dynasource Supervisory board. Both appointments are part of Dynasource’s cunning plan for global expansion, particularly throughout the UK and US.

New CEO Marc Duijndam was CEO at Funda for over four years until 2017 and was previously responsible for the launch of Google in BENELUX.

New Supervisory Board Member Ruud Henriks was a member of the Executive Board of Endemol and is now co-founder of Startupbootcamp.

Former CEO, Paul White steps up to support the Supervisory Board.