Cisco is on the hunt for a network of certified partners that can help customers snuggle up to IoT.
Cisco is building a global force of partners that have gone through its IoT training and specialisation programmes.
The vendor wants resellers, ISVs, machine builders and service providers signed up to its IoT programme so that partners with certifications have the highest visibility across its own sales teams as well as with customers.
Mimecast has written a cheque for the London-based Simply Migrate, which specialises in archived data migration technology.
Mimecast stated that the cost and complexity of legacy data migration is a major issue for large organisations in moving to its cloud-based archiving solutions.
It claimed that this acquisition will offer customers a faster and more cost-effective route to its cloud.
Worldwide IT spending will hit a high of $3.76 trillion as it shifts from devices to new areas including cloud services.
Beancounters at Gartner think that despite Brexit uncertainty, trade wars, tariffs and Donald Trump IT spending is predicted to see three percent growth in 2019.
However, John-David Lovelock, research VP at Gartner, said the focus of this spending will shift dramatically.
Cybersecurity outfit NCC Group’s turnover for the first half of its fiscal 2019 rose eight percent, but the outfit is a little miffed at its flat UK sales figures.
NCC’s turnover rose to £126 million. Total operating profit jumped to £9.5 million from £6.3 million during its first quarter which ended on 30 November 2018.
Its revenue growth to its US Assurance business, grew 20 percent, but its UK business only increased by 1.1 percent and contributed £43.8 million of the final figure.
Tech Data has introduced sponsored product search and targeted banner advertising to its online sales platform InTouch using digital advertising system provider Citrus .
The enhancements to InTouch will allow Tech Data to provide a more personalised user experience for customers across its European footprint and improved visibility of return on investment for vendors’ digital marketing activities, enabled by Citrus’s advanced data analytics and machine learning capability.
CDW transacted the most sales of any reseller on the G-Cloud framework last year according to government released figures
The figures, published by Crown Commercial Service (CCS), reveal that CDW raked in sales of £29.3 million via G-Cloud, although the vast majority of this came from one huge £25.7 million deal.
RealVNC has appointed Sigma Software Distribution as its preferred UK distributor.
RealVNC provides remote access software. RealVNC’s product, VNC Connect, covers a wide variety of use cases including IT support and remote working to supporting usability testing and running virtual desktops.
Richard Booth, Channel Sales Executive at RealVNC said: “We’ve partnered with Sigma for some time and
CrowdStrike announced a new tiered programme for reseller partners to sell more and offer partners additional revenue streams through partner-provided services, solutions, and other opportunities.
The Elevate Partner Programme is a unified partner programme that incorporates all security solutions, partners and their “go-to-market models”. It encompasses a “whole-ecosystem” approach based on six paths to partner engagement and profitability — Channel, Technology Alliances, MSSPs, OEMs, CrowdStrike Platform, and Cloud Procurements.
Zadara has announced its enterprise-class storage solutions are available to VMware Cloud on AWS customers.
VMware Cloud on AWS brings together VMware’s enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software and bare-metal infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Zadara said this means that its Virtual Private Storage Arrays deliver the data storage and management features that customers of VMware Cloud on AWS need.
Cybersecurity outfit NCC Group has shared an interim first half update that exposes its problems finding those with security skills.
While everyone knows that there are problems with finding staff with the right stuff it has mostly been pitched as an “opportunity for the channel to fill the skills gap.”
The NCC report implies that even the channel is suffering too.
The maker of expensive printer ink, HP, is putting £4 million into its HP for Education scheme in what is a record investment for the initiative.
HP education business director Neil Sawyer said that the programme is centred around HP’s education resellers who took a training and certification programme with the outfit last year.
When they sell HP technology to schools, the schools receive credits to allow them to invest in more tech.
Nintex announced a strategic partnership with Adobe to bring new native electronic signature capabilities, called Nintex Signup, powered by Adobe Sign, to Nintex partners and customers.
Nintex Sign believes it provides fully integrated e-signatures within its Process Platform to securely complete transactions. Thousands of partners, public, private, and government organisations use the Nintex platform every day to build process apps, automate complicated workflows, and generate all kinds of documents.
Nintex CEO Eric Johnson said: “The new offering produced by this partnership powerfully extends the native capabilities of Nintex Platform to now include industry-leading Adobe-backed eSignatures. Nintex Sign, powered by our strategic partnership with Adobe, will bring tremendous value to our thriving Nintex process management and automation community.”
Ashley Still, vice president and general manager, Adobe Document Cloud, added, “We believe great experiences for customers and employees start where the document does. With Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign, we’re excited to bring these two best-in-class solutions together, making it easier for Nintex’s global partner network and customers to transform digital document workflows.”
Aragon Research CEO Jim Lundy, the leading analyst covering the fast-growing, multi-billion dollar Digital Transaction Management and Workflow and Content Automation markets commented, “This strategic partnership brings together two of the leading providers in Documents, eSignatures, Process Management, Workflow and Content Automation.”
Nintex is offering current customers who sign up for Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign with a special “introductory” offer. Nintex customers should contact their Nintex account manager for details.
Business intelligence (BI), analytics, and data management outfit Information Builders has announced launched of a new Global Partner Programme to provide its partners with the benefits, investment, and resources needed to drive profitability and success in the data and analytics market.
Information Builders claims it aims to work with growth-minded organisations that want to deliver a “data transformation solution” and enable “customer success” by helping clients manage data, generate insights, take action, and deliver “measurable impact”.
Silicon Valley cloud giant Box is offering a service upgrade to offset any fallout caused by the Brexit.
The company has launched a new zone that is based entirely in the UK, entailing a primary data centre in London and a secondary backup in Cardiff.
In 2016, Box announced Zones, which serve as additional datacenter hubs outside the US via partnerships with AWS and IBM. At launch, Box Zones were located in Germany, Ireland, Japan, and Singapore, and they were later expanded to other territories, including Canada and Australia.
Kings Secure Technologies claims that the Morphean threat detection platform it supplied has slashed injuries among post office workers by a third.
Paul Ottley, Account Director at Kings Secure Technologies, said the integrated security system that includes new IP cameras and two-way audio technology saw the rate of injuries Post Office staff decline by 36 per cent in just three years.
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