Rackspace’s shares took a hit after the company suffered a ransomware attack hit and then failed to tell customers.
The outfit has been slammed on social media for its lack of transparency since customers started noticing a massive outage late last week.
It finally announced that it was suffering a “ransomware incident” affecting its hosted Exchange environment in its blog.
Air IT has snapped up two MSPs in a merger and acquisition spree.
New CEO James Steventon has written a check for Silverbug and Scoria which are Air IT’s ninth and tenth acquisitions since August Equity invested in the Nottingham-based firm in 2020.
The company now has 400 staff and client base to 2,200 and turns in £8.2 million in its most recently filed annual accounts, Silverbug is based in Milton Keynes. Scoria, meanwhile, has its HQ in London.
Air IT virtually trebled revenues to £29.7 million in calendar 2021, accounts for its holding company show. It is forecasting a 2022 haul of £39 million.
HPE has spruced up its GreenLake as-a-service portfolio with an option for customers wanting a private cloud environment.
Dubbed GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise, HPE says that the product will give users the same container run-times they would gain if they chose public cloud and support for those customers looking for DevOps environments.
The vendor has continued to expand the ecosystem for GreenLake and has added support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform just a few weeks after it cut the ribbon on HPE GreenLake for VMware.
UK tech firms are feeling pretty good about the industry next year despite rumours of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse riding forth, a new report has found.
The IT Industry Outlook 2023 report from The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) surveyed 125 professionals in the UK, DACH, Benelux, Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and Southeast Asia (ASEAN) regions to look into the sentiment of technology firms for the year ahead.
UK businesses rated sector at 6.4 out of 10, suggesting that even with current uncertainties and societal stuff, the industry remains robust and confident.
French risk-based vulnerability management vendor Hackuity [get it?], has opened its first UK office.
The group, which already has offices in Singapore and the Netherlands, has a cash stash of €12 million to invest in new regions.
Founded in 2018 by Orange Cyberdefense veterans Patrick Ragaru and Pierre Polette, Hackuity lets cybersecurity teams to gather, prioritise, and fix security weaknesses.
VP Sylvain Cortes said that Hackuity’s entry into the UK offered significant opportunities to diversify our customer base.
“This is an important move towards global expansion, with the UK being a key step in our business plans for EMEA. We have witnessed a growing need for vulnerability management in the region, as the number of cybersecurity threats continues to grow significantly.”
Cloudy Vonage has released its Salesforce Shield for Vonage Contact Centre (VCC) and Vonage for Service Cloud Voice (SCV) which provides additional compliance with corporate and industry requirements and added security features. Lots of Vonages in that sentence.
Both plug into an organisation’s Salesforce interface and support Salesforce Shield encryption. This lets users benefit from the security Salesforce Shield provides alongside Vonage’s cloud contact centre solution, it’s claimed.
Vonage CIO Sanjay Macwan said that this means a healthcare company can manage personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) for its patients without compromising the ability of customer service agents to search or run workflows and other essential functions using that data in order to ensure patients continue to receive the best medical care.
Ignition Technology is keeping its identity after being swallowed by Exclusive Networks.
Ignition Technology’s Sean Remnant said Exclusive took a different approach during the take over.
He said that while the competition like to think that when a large distributor swallows you, they can take your portfolio when you disappear.
“That is probably the case in some acquisitions, but that hasn’t been the case here. This is 100% not the case. So we’ve still got separate profit and loss, separate management team. The culture is the same as it was, and we’re trying to build that Ignition entity and take it to EMEA and then take it worldwide.”
MSPs are noting a shift by customers to take more workloads off-premise.
According to research from Kaseya, as many as 75 percent of client workloads will be cloud-based over the next three years, and that shift is fuelling activities in the channel. That figure represents a 25 percent increase compared to when the same question was asked of the channel last year.
The firm found that almost all MSPs are looking to exploit emerging opportunities around cloud integration. Most MSPs offer cloud-based infrastructure design and management.
Housing sector IT solutions provider Sovereign Business Integration Group has called in the liquidators after going tits up due to the pandemic.
The company was doing well before 2019 and netted £7.4 million in turnover, then the Barnet-based outfit saw revenues tumble 46 percent to £4 million in 2020.
Although actions taken to reduce its cost base enabled it to virtually halve pre-tax losses to £798,000 during the period, Sovereign stressed at the time that it was “actively seeking ways to further reduce costs in the face of the uncertainty in the market and the reluctance of companies to commit to capital investment decisions”.
ChannelEye was beset with a number of server problems over the last 10 days, meaning that you, our reader, hasn’t seen sight nor sound of the zingy publication. Now we’re back to unusual.
IBM has sued British outfit Micro Focus, claiming it illegally copied and reverse-engineered its software.
The copyright complaints in the US District Court in the Southern District of New York allege that Micro Focus stole IBM’s mainframe systems technology.
It said that Micro Focus created software called Micro Focus Enterprise Server and Micro Focus Enterprise Developer (collectively, Micro Focus Enterprise Suite) by using its developer access to copy IBM’s CICS Transaction Server for z/OS software.
The Newbury firm published, distributed, and promoted the Micro Focus Enterprise Suite Micro Focus and entered into contracts to benefit from IBM’s developer programmes and gain access to its
Boxxe owner Phil Doye has announced that he has made a minority investment in Total Computers and will become a board member of the Kettering outfit.
Doye acquired Boxxe three-and-a-half years ago when it was known as SBL. Before that he had built up and then flogged off Kelway to CDW.
In a statement, Doye stressed that he had known Total CEO Aidan Groom and CRO Kevin Goodall for “many years”.
“They have created a business that is uniquely positioned to help customers keep up with the pace of digital transformation and technological innovation.
Nokia and Inria announced the renewal of their common research deal for the next four years.
The pair have been working together since 2008 having pooled permanent scientists from the two partners with a newly created pool of PhD and post-doctoral scientists, with the strategic aim to solve the key scientific challenges linked to the evolution of networks and network applications.
The focus of the joint research is on the benefits of network and distributed resources for contextual and personalised experiences in the digital connected world.
Highlight introduced a new Actionable Insights SaaS offering to its Service Assurance Platform.
The move will give managed service providers a tailored reporting environment to enable the fast production of interactive and graphical service reports.
Actionable Insights uses APIs to draw standardised network service data from the Highlight Service Assurance Platform and then visualise service performance metrics into multiple interactive dashboards.
Highlight Technical Account Manager Craig Smith said: “Customer service management reporting has traditionally been resource intensive. Successful managed network services rely on clear and open communication. Actionable Insights enables service providers to quickly produce interactive, clear and visually pleasing service reports but without the resource-heavy process of manual collation and formatting.
VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram said the company’s sales met expectations this past quarter, rising one percent, aided by double-digit subscription revenue growth.
Raghuram said that in the past quarter the company unveiled many new offerings across our portfolio, including VMware vSphere 8, VMware vSAN 8 and VMware Aria.
“We remain committed to and engaged in helping customers transform their businesses and unlock the full potential of multi-cloud.”
Sales for its third quarter of fiscal year 2023 came in at $3.21 billion, up from $3.18 billion a year ago. Net income for the quarter, meanwhile was down 42 percent to $231 million from a year ago when it came in at $398 million.
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