Darling of the UK PC-builder industry Bullguard ,has spruced up its cybersecurity product line by adding a VPN product.
Designed to be easily used across multiple devices, BullGuard VPN features a simplified user interface and quick connect functionality, enabling consumers to fly under the radar and surf the internet in stealth mode while retaining complete anonymity via military-grade encryption. It is available for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS operating systems.
After enhancing its channel programme, security outfit Tripwire has increased investment in its top partners after launching a range of enhancements to.
Lately, several vendors have decided to work more closely with their top partners and gain more from existing relationships with managed accounts.
Tripwire is introducing a platinum level to its partner programme. The invitation-only tier will be open to those which deliver the highest growth and value to customers.
Increased costs and rising political instability may be driving manufacturers to reduce sourcing from China in favour of doing more business with European suppliers.
According to the Q4 2018 Global Supply Chain Risk Report, published today by Cranfield School of Management and Dun & Bradstreet, sourcing from high-risk countries is most prevalent in the manufacturing sector, but this reduced 25 percent during Q4 2018, suggesting businesses may be adopting a more cautious approach.
Analyst outfit Gartner expects shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile phones to hit 2.21 billion units in 2019.
However this will mean a 0.6 percent decline for the PC market to 258 million units this year. Traditional PCs are predicted to sell three percent in 2019 to 189 million units.
Thales has said that after 15 months, it has completed its €4.8 billion acquisition of Gemalto.
The result of the deal means that Thales will be a significant digital identity and security player employing 80,000 people.
Thales said that the combination creates a compelling portfolio of digital identity and security solutions based on technologies such as biometry, data protection, and, more broadly, cybersecurity.
Thales aims to provide a seamless response to customers who don’t want any seams. This will mean critical infrastructure providers such as banks, telecom operators, government agencies, utilities and other industries as they step up to the challenges of identifying people and objects and keeping data secure.
Research and development (R&D) are at the core of the new Group, with its 3,000 researchers and 28,000 engineers dedicated to R&D.
The new Thales will cover the entire critical decision chain in an increasingly interconnected and vulnerable world, with capabilities spanning software development, data processing, real-time decision support, connectivity and end-to-end network management.
With €1 billion a year devoted to self-funded R&D, the Group will continue to innovate in its key markets, drawing in
Gemalto will form one of Thales’s seven global divisions, to be named Digital Identity and Security (DIS). Gemalto will interact with all of the Group’s civil and defence customers and will significantly strengthen its industrial presence in 68 countries. Thales will considerably expand its operations in Latin America (2,500 employees, up from 600), triple its presence in Northern Asia (1,980, from 700), Southeast Asia (2,500, from 800) and India (1,150, from 400) and North America (6,660 employees, up from 4,600).
Thales chairman Patrice Caine said that with Gemalto, Thales had acquired a set of highly complementary technologies and competencies with applications in all of our five vertical markets, which are now redefined as aerospace; space; ground transportation; digital identity and security; and defence and security.
“These are the smart technologies that help people make the best choices at every decisive moment. The acquisition is a turning point for the Group’s 80,000 employees. Together, we are creating a giant in digital identity and security with the capabilities to compete in the big leagues worldwide”, Caine said.
VMWare said that it is making changes to its channel partner programme as flagged last year.
The outfit has been rebuilding its channel programme and said that the emphasis would be on gaining specialisations having started its master services programme, with four options partners, could go for, back in May.
Beancounters at IDC have been adding up some numbers and dividing by their shoe size and decided that Big Data is going to continue to get bigger.
IDC said that last year saw 12 percent growth over last year, and forecasts have that level, 13.2 percent on a compound annual rate, will continue through to 2022.
Teleopti announced that National Express, the largest operator of coach services in the UK, is using its workforce management (WFM) solution to create schedules for over 160 frontline employees, working complex shift patterns in its customer service centre.
The National Express contact centre supports ticket sales and assistance to customers of its bus and coach services every day of the year. The customer service teams also manage online queries. The customer service centre handles between 1800 and 2000 calls a day, increasing to 2500 at peak times holiday times or in bad weather. Teleopti’s cloud-based, automated WFM solution enables managers to adjust schedules quickly and efficiently to meet customer demand.
The public cloud services market is set to see massive growth as a third of organisations now see cloud investments as a critical priority, according to a report from the Gartner beancounters.
Big G predicts that more than 30 percent of technology firms’ new software investments will move from cloud-first to cloud-only by the end of 2019.
Cogent Distribution has become a UK value-added distributor for wireless transport outfit SIAE Microelettronica.
Cogent will primarily focus on SIAE Microelettronica’s high capacity long range communication link solutions. The full outdoor solutions are particularly well-suited to the education sector including colleges and universities, as they can be deployed with minimal infrastructure, including roof-top deployments.
Machine vision technology has been in the market for years. However, with advancements in technology and with the evolution of smart factory, the past decade has seen a radical revolution in machine vision equipment.
According to Frost & Sullivan, the $7.45 billion global machine vision equipment market is expected to almost double by 2022 to touch $13.62 billion, as industries intensify their demand for quality inspection.
Business Risk Intelligence firm Flashpoint announced that its Global Channel Programme had grown 150 percent year-over-year since its formal introduction in 2017.
The company’s channel-driven revenue has also grown more than 200 percent since it signed its first partner in 2015, due to the company’s global expansion and increased customer adoption of BRI through its partnerships. It boasted lots of growth.
Video collaboration and meeting productivity solutions, Lifesize, announced it had surpassed $100 million in bookings with an 80 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for annual recurring revenue (ARR) over the last four years.
Security player Rapid7 has acquired network traffic visibility and analytics player NetFort.The firm has developed its own cloud platform that provides a range of networking visibility and analytics tools and security features and wants NetFort expertise to add to that.The company said that the mix would improving its ability to detect attacks, investigate incidents and gain increased visibility into areas of risk.
Rapid7 has been working on a product which gives users the chance to look at the threats, risks and performance of a data network through a single platform.
Lee Weiner, chief product officer at Rapid7 said that “NetFort’s technology and the deep network protocol expertise inherent across the team was impressive.
“By bringing NetFort’s network data and analytics to our own platform, we enhance security analysts’ capability to unearth risk, detect attacks, and investigate incidents more effectively,” he added.
Rapid7 indicated that the deal would not have a material impact on its annualised revenue growth, revenue and non-GAAP operating and net income for this year.
John Brosnan, chief executive officer at NetFort, which has been in business since 2002, based in Ireland, said that becoming part of a larger organisation was a result of the hard work the staff and management had done running the firm.
“Rapid7 will help us apply our network data insights across their cloud-based platform to improve the security posture of our customers,” he said.
In one of the most significant acquisitions in the UK channel this year, CSA has been acquired by third-party maintenance outfit Park Place Technologies
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