Category: News

Getac embeds LiFi technology with Signify

Posted on September 6, 2023 by - News

Getac has embedded LiFi technology into its rugged devices as part of an innovation project with Signify.

Getac was one of the first manufacturers to engineer rugged devices with integrated LiFi via external dongles. The company has taken this a step further by fully embedding the technology into its devices, achieving another industry-first in the process.

Getac is working closely with Signify’s Trulifi technology on the project, with the aim of bringing LiFi technology to its customers. Further announcements detailing the devices themselves and their commercial availability will be made in the future.

Both Signify and Getac are part of the Light Communication Alliance (LCA), a community of industry leaders, researchers, and innovators who believe in the power of Optical Wireless Communication to transform the way organisations connect and communicate.

Car companies falling short on privacy

Posted on September 6, 2023 by - News

All 25 major car brands reviewed in Mozilla’s latest edition of *Privacy Not Included (*PNI) received failing marks for consumer privacy.

According to Mozilla research, popular global brands — including BMW, Ford, Toyota, Tesla, Kia, and Subaru — can collect deeply personal data such as sexual activity, immigration status, race, facial expressions, weight, health and genetic information, and driving routes.

Researchers found data is being gathered via sensors, microphones, cameras, and the phones and devices drivers connect to their cars, as well as through car apps, company websites, dealerships, and vehicle telematics. Brands can then share or sell this data to third parties.

Dell sees AI future

Posted on September 5, 2023 by - News

While grey box shifter Dell’s financial results were pants, the company thinks AI, other emerging technologies, and improved macroeconomic trends make for a very strong quarter.

Dell reported a significant year-over-year drop in revenue and GAAP net income along with tiny growth in non-GAAP net income.

While the company’s revenue guidance for the next quarter is for another double-digit decline.

However, talk about Dell’s investment in AI convinced investors the tech giant is moving in the right direction, giving Dell share prices a 7-plus-per cent boost in after-hours trading.

Eglon joins Nebula Global Services

Posted on September 5, 2023 by - News

Former Agilitas veteran Richard Eglon is joining Nebula Global Services as its chief marketing officer.

His job will be to drive its global sustainable services strategy, go-to-market, propositions, and brand equity.

Founded during the first lockdown in 2020 by channel duo Peter Murphy and Ross Teague, Nebula Global Services focuses on outcome-based global services.

SentinelOne and Wiz in a confused spat

Posted on September 4, 2023 by - News

Recently Wiz mentioned that it was considering buying cloudy security outfit SentinelOne, but now it seems the pair  are at war.

SentinelOne said that it had terminated its exclusive partnership with Wiz due to “lack of execution” by the cloud security firm and failed to mention anything to do with a takeover.

The dark satanic rumour mill suggests that the venture-backed Wiz’s comments had miffed SentinelOne’s leadership to the point it wanted to axe the six-month-old collaboration.

In the statemen,  SentinelOne said it “terminated its re-sell agreement with Wiz as a result of their continued lack of execution against their commitments.”

Additionally, “the Wiz partnership has not been material to our business,” SentinelOne said in the statement.

The partnership included an integration between SentinelOne’s cloud workload protection platform and complementary capabilities from Wiz, including its widely used cloud security posture management technology.

 

 

 

HPE busy among its channel parters

Posted on September 4, 2023 by - News

Canalys Forum EuropeHewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has reported a positive third quarter and busy market activity among its channel partners.

Overall revenue was up a per cent to $7 billion, from the prior year, and up 3.5 per cent in constant currency.

Annualised revenue run-rate (ARR) saw an increase of 48 per cent to $1.3 billion. At the same time, gross margins were 35.8 per cent for GAAP – up 130 basis points from the prior year and down 20 basis points sequentially.

Robot sales declining as automation stalls

Posted on September 1, 2023 by - News

After record robot sales in 2022, North American companies ordered fewer for the second straight quarter in 2023 leading some to question if industry automation could be more stable.

Folding in first quarter results, 2023 orders are down 29 per cent compared with the first half of last year.

According to the latest report from the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), summarised in the release below, companies ordered 7,697 robots from April through June, representing a 20 per cent drop in value over the same period in 2022.

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SME business set to decline

Posted on September 1, 2023 by - News

Channel companies hoping to pitch products to UK SMEs could be out of luck.

New figures suggest SMEs are postponing their investment plans as they grapple with increased costs and inflationary pressures.

The Enterprise Nation Small Business Barometer found a 26 per cent drop in businesses looking to raise seed capital under £10,000 in the year’s second quarter. In comparison, the number seeking between £10,000 and £20,000 rose by eight per cent, suggesting more businesses are self-funding growth plans.

Despite that, growth expectations have been revised for this quarter by six percentage points, with 27 per cent expecting to grow by at least a quarter in the next three months, up from 21 per cent.

Christian Norris named PA consulting CEO

Posted on August 31, 2023 by - News

PA Consulting has named Christian Norris as its new CEO.

An economist by training, Norris joined PA in 2018 as a Partner. At PA, he has led the firm’s health and life sciences sector and its economics and strategy offerings.

The company said that Norris was instrumental in shaping PA’s business strategy over the last five years, which has seen the firm secure client work across its geographies and growth through acquisitions.

NHS England needs to address bidding process

Posted on August 31, 2023 by - News

NHS England needs to address growing public concern about the £480 million contract to operate its Federated Data Platform (FDP), according to the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care.

Writing in her bog, Dr Nicola Byrne said she wants to address growing public concerns about NHS England’s FDP contract “so that it does not lose public support and so that planning and research do not suffer.”

Byrne said NHS England gave her a high-level communications plan last week and said the Professional Record Standards Body will be engaged to help design the FDP.

Public cloud spending set to increase

Posted on August 30, 2023 by - News

Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers, divided by their collective shoe size, and projected that worldwide expenditure on public cloud services will surge to $1.35 trillion by 2027.

While the pace of annual spending growth in the Public Cloud Services market is anticipated to experience a marginal decline during the period from 2023 to 2027, the market is predicted to achieve an impressive compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.9 per cent over five years.

IDC Eileen Smith Program Vice President of Data & Analytics  said organisations have widely adopted public cloud solutions as a cost-efficient means of hosting enterprise applications and facilitating the creation and deployment of consumer-centric solutions.

CityFibre connects three million

Posted on August 30, 2023 by - News

CityFibre has connected three million premises as it continues its full-fibre network rollout to reach up to a third of the UK.

CityFibre passed 2m homes in September 2022 and is on course to deliver a million Ready For Service premises to ISPs by the end of this year.

CityFibre began the construction of its access network in 2018, commencing mobilisation in its first 12 towns and cities and has since achieved primary build complete status in multiple locations including Milton Keynes, Stirling, Peterborough and Coventry. In its most mature locations, such as Milton Keynes, ISP partners are now approaching 30 per cent take-up with other locations growing on a similar trajectory.

NP Digital opens in France

Posted on August 30, 2023 by - News

NP Digital has announced a major expansion in Europe with the opening of its France office under the leadership of Frédéric Joseph.

The company said its French expansion follows growth in Europe, including offices in Italy, Germany, and Spain this year and the UK in 2021.

The new region aims to meet strong demand from French brands eager to benefit from the specialised expertise at NP Digital on an international scale. NP Digital France will focus on providing customized solutions for B2B and B2C brands with a commitment to ethical and sustainable development.

Cloudy company might have been busted by ransomware

Posted on August 29, 2023 by - News

A cloud hosting firm lost a “majority” of its customer data after a ransomware attack infected the company’s systems.

“Unfortunately, it has proved impossible to recreate more data, and the majority of our customers have thus lost all data with us,” CloudNordic wrote in a translated post.

CloudNordic supplies servers to host email, websites, and other IT services for its customers. But the attack is so devastating CloudNordic must start from scratch in rebuilding the company’s IT systems.

“In addition to data, we also lost all our systems and servers and have had difficulty communicating,” the company says.

Gamma Communications has acquired MSSP Satisnet.

Posted on August 29, 2023 by - News

Unified comms outfit Gamma Communications has acquired MSSP Satisnet.

The acquisition gives Gamma access to an established operation that has been trading since 2004 and comes with 48 staff and 1,000 customers.

The managed security services provider (MSSP) has a track record of helping customers with assessments and vulnerability discovery options, as well as risk mitigation and the deployment of cyber attack defences.

The firm has relationships with a number of leading vendors in the security market, including IBM, Microsoft and Tenable.