AI will benefit Oracle as companies seek to build their specialised versions of GenAI programs such as ChatGPT.
Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison said one project that Oracle could provide was a vector database containing anonymised electronic health records and other specialised training data for healthcare companies.
Security outfit Check Point Software Technologies has completed its acquisition of Perimeter 81.
For those not in the know, Perimeter 81 is a Security Service Edge (SSE) company, with a team of over 200 employees that serves more than 3,000 customers worldwide.
A Dell’Oro Group report claims that the SASE market – consisting of SD-WAN and SSE (security service edge) solutions – bucked economic uncertainty with 38 per cent year-over-year revenue growth in 2Q 2023.
The report said that quarterly revenue broke through the $2 billion marker to set a new record. Quarterly revenue has doubled in just ten quarters as enterprises go all in to improve networking and security services in the mobile- and cloud-first era.
Grey box shifter Dell has named Alexandre Brousse as its EMEA channel lead.
He succeeds Anwar Dahab, who was promoted to lead Dell in France.
Dell said Brousse will work with the EMEA channel team to deliver a “customer-centric” and “partner-empowered” ecosystem.
Brousse has been with Dell for 18 years, most recently leading channel sales for Western Europe.
Exclusive Networks has snapped up cybersecurity VAD Ingecom.
The deal will help Ignition Technology’s expansion in Southern Europe, which Exclusive bought July 2021.
The outfit said the additional development of Ignition will create further value for Exclusive by strengthening its dual offering to established and emerging innovative vendors.
More than 10,000 staff will lose their jobs at troubled UK household goods outfit Wilko, administrators said Monday.
Last-ditch talks on a rescue deal with the owner of the HMV music store chain collapsed.
Canadian businessman Doug Putman had been in talks with administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to buy some 200 shops operated by Wilko, which went bust in August.
The French Federation of Basketball (FFBB) has deployed Newsbridge’s , Cloud Media Hub and mobile app to improve the efficiency of content archiving, discovery, and sharing.
The Cloud Media Hub enables FFBB to quickly share highlights with clubs, players, partners, journalists, sponsors, and more.
FFBB’s archive head Simon Guionnet said that the outfit had amassed an shed loads of content, including more than 1,300 hours of videos and more than 120,000 photos.
“Newsbridge’s Cloud Media Hub simplifies the way we store, manage, and share live and archived content, providing us with instant access to highlights from anywhere in the world. All of this was done incredibly quickly, with the Newsbridge team moving more than 100 years of archived content from our legacy system to a custom-built Cloud Media Hub within just four weeks.”
Computacenter reported a 26.8 per cent revenue growth to £3.5 billion in the first half of 2023.
While gross income climbed 29.9 per cent to £5.1 billion for the first six months of 2023.
The LSE-listed company said it continued significant programme of strategic initiative expenditure to underpin its long-term resilience, competitiveness and growth with an additional expected spend of circa £13 million in FY23 compared to FY22.
First half results also showed improvement in cash as inventory levels reduced towards normal levels. Inventory fell by £217.2 million since the highpoint in Q3 2022.
Secure access service edge (SASE) vendor, Netskope has acquired digital experience monitoring firm Kadiska.
Kadiska was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in France, with a international team of digital experience management experts.
It built its technology to combine real user experience monitoring with end-to-end network and application performance visibility from user devices to hybrid, SaaS and cloud applications.
These capabilities complement and enhance Netskope’s AI- and ML-fuelled proactive experience remediation cross the technology stack.
Netskope CEO and co-founder Sanjay Beri said: “Kadiska matches well with the Netskope platform.
IT services provider and consultancy NTT DATA UK&I has appointed Massimo Fatato as the new Head of Networks.
The appointment is part of NTT DATA’s investment into strengthening its telco business, with Fatato heading up work in OSS Transformation, Telco Cloud and public and private 5G network areas.
Fatato joins NTT DATA with a wealth of experience and knowledge thanks to a career spanning more than 30 years in the telecoms industry.
His career began as a Systems Engineer at Telecom Italia, where he led the design of its OSS, one of the first European carrier deployments, before moving on to Nortel, where he started as a System Engineer and rose through the ranks to become an Account Director.
Security outfit Expel unveiled its new partner programme, which it claims will make it easier for channel organisations to go to market with its products.
Expel CEO Dave Merkel said the channel was critical in addressing the security needs in the market.
“We’ve made significant investments in our team and programme resources aimed at delivering even greater value to our partners and customers,” he said.
“As we continue to grow, we’re committed to being a partner-first organisation, and this evolved programme reflects a significant step forward in providing a first-rate partner experience.”
Data outfit Panasas has appointed Ken Claffey as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Claffey replaces Tom Shea, who will remain Chief Operating Officer on the Panasas executive leadership team.
White Oak Global Advisors CEO Andre A. Hakkak said that it was decided to hire Claffey because Panasas was well-positioned to build on its success over the last few years as it has moved to a software-defined architecture, increased its revenues, and is now ready to take a step function in its growth and scale.
White Oak Global Advisors has committed significant incremental funding that will enable Claffey and the Panasas team to execute significant business growth.
Midwich Group saw growth everywhere in the world other than the UK.
The Norfolk-based distributor saw revenues decline slightly by 2.2 per cent to £234 million in the UK & Ireland.
Based on independent market data, Midwich believes the decline is significantly less than the overall decline in the region.
Revenues for the six months ended 30 June 2023 grew 7.4 per cent to £610.4 million.
Gross profit was up 17.5 per cent to £99.6 million in H1 2023.
My colleague Nick Booth died very recently. He was, as I’ve said on social media, the wittiest human being I’ve ever met.
There is an obituary of Nick on the Microscope website, here.
TD SYNNEX has been appointed as a distributor for Lenovo’s ThinkReality portfolio of virtual and mixed-reality headsets and says it is ready to bring partners on board and them take the solution to their customers.
Designed for business, the ThinkReality solutions provide an innovative and highly effective platform for simulated training, collaboration and 3D design applications.
TD SYNNEX, business unit director, mobile / CE / mixed reality, UK Ryan Thomas said this was a good opportunity for B2B resellers to start venturing into an area of largely unexplored potential.
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