MSP Oncore IT has written a cheque for Fuse Technologies allowing it to add unified comms to its list of services.
The London-based MSP counts Citrix, VMware and Hitachi Data Solutions among its partners, and the purchase of Fuse will bring vendors such as Microsoft and Cisco into its portfolio.
Gartner’s latest managed security services provider (MSSP) report is missing the names of four big IT giants who made it last year but have disappeared.
DXC Technology, BT, Orange Business Services and HCL Technologies appeared to have softly and suddenly vanished away and will not be met with again.
Secure USB drive outfit Apricorn has released research claiming that 89 percent of organisations have experienced a data breach, and human error is still the chief cause.
Two-thirds (63 percent) of respondents noted that human error was the leading cause of a data breach within their organisation – be it mobile workers, unintentional error, or employees with malicious intent.
Edinburgh-based Hutchinson Networks has been put into administration.
Paul Hutchinson (pictured) started the company in 2011 after “breaking away from the Cisco learning partner’s space”, where he had been for “probably 15 years’’ and was working towards becoming a Cisco Gold partner and worked with Riverbed, F5 Networks, VMware and Velocloud.
Security company SecureLink has partnered with digital risk protection outfit Digital Shadows, to launch SecureDetect Intelligence.
The idea is to create a product that offers cyber threat intelligence and digital risk protection as-a-service. It will be immediately available to European enterprises in countries including the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.
Printer maker Epson has launched an expanded Partner Programme to cover its business printers, scanners and displayse. It means Epson now provides dedicated benefits to its value and solutions partners, including dedicated account management and access to vertical end user sales teams.
Chris Smith, head of business sales at Epson UK, said: “We do not sell direct. We will only sell through our resellers, and with recent developments within the channel we felt now it was time to further prove our commitment.
Huawei’s channel has been told how much of a contribution that the firm makes to the UK economy.
The firm has now shared some numbers for those wondering just what it does for the UK economy pointing out that it stimulated a £1.7bn contribution to GDP last year and its activities support 26,000 British jobs. It also paid £470 million in tax in 2018.
A lot of those jobs and money are being generated in the channel and the theme of the vendor’s partner conference was to focus on generating more growth in the future.
London, UK – July 19, 2018: The buttons of Whatsapp, Messenger, Telegram, Pinterest Twitter, Facetime and other chat apps on the screen of an iPhone.
Security outfit Armour Communications has warned organisations to stop using consumer-grade, free apps when handling sensitive or commercial information.
Armour director David Holman said that for those with jobs where security is paramount, for example, journalists, humanitarians, activists or special services working in unfriendly regimes, a phone that has been hacked via an app could put lives at risk. For others, the risk of an individual’s private information or financial data being accessed will damage an organisation’s brand integrity and share price.
Extreme Networks has extended its ExtremeDojo training program to customers and added a technical training pathway.
Originally designed to educate employees and global partners, ExtremeDojo now provides its customers with modular, competency-based curricula delivered in a new and gamified format. Technical engineers
Ignition Technology has launched its end-to-end Identity Platform after signing a new UK VAD agreement with BeyondTrust.
Insight EMEA, a division of Insight, has appointed Karen Mclaughlin as Vice President, Services, EMEA. Managing a team of more than 250 services professionals, Karen will be responsible for accelerating Insight’s services division across Europe.
Mclaughlin brings with her more than two decades of experience leading and developing managed services for organisations, globally. Most recently, as Vice President at DXC Technology, her role was focused
Nottingham based software outfit Ideagen has reported that it expects to be marginally ahead of market expectations when it releases its full year results later this year.
The Group said that it expects to see a 29 percent rise in revenues to approximately £46.7million FY2019 when it releases its results in July, up from £36.1million FY 2018.
SD-WAN, cloud communications and managed security solutions provider Masergy has hired Emily Nerland to lead its UK channel account management team, amid fresh investments across its channel operations.
Masergy EMEA managing director Steve Harrington said the company was amplifying partner revenue capabilities and driving new opportunities in the channel.
Intel has unveiled details surrounding its new Project Athena Open Labs project which is designed to support and optimise components for the upcoming Project Athena class of advanced laptops.
Project Athena aims to create a more power-efficient and responsive class of laptop that capitalises on next-generation technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence.
Storage outfit Cohesity has written a cheque for backup and data management player Imanis Data.
The move is being seen as Cohesity looking to help customers deal with “modern workloads” with NoSQL distributed databases, containers and SaaS data.
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