Classrooms in schools and colleges were busy with MSPs and resellers over June to August as they boosted their IT after the corona virus panic died down, according to reports from Zyxel.
The networking supplier has seen the education business going through its channel partners increase in the past three months by double figures year-on-year, with Zyxel continuing to encourage more sign-ups to its Education Partner Programme.
Cloudy comms provider Babble has made a double acquisition making it the sixth this year.
The London-based business has acquired Berry Telecom and Cavendish Communications Group. The companies have 2,400 customers between them. Babble claims acquiring the companies gives their customers the chance to “enhance their technology and switch to cloud-based services”.
CEO Matt Parker said: “Berry and Cavendish have a strong track record of providing their customers with an exceptional level of service. Where we will add value is bringing even more innovation and variety with the technology we can offer.
Gamma Communications has announced its half-year results and an eight per cent rise in revenue and gross profit.
Revenue was £234.7 million while gross provide was £120.4 million. The company also reported its partner business was improving.
SIP Trunks, driven by voice enablement of Microsoft Teams via Direct Routing, was the company’s top product along with Cloud PBX users, which climbed by six per cent to 716,000 from 676,000. The number of Cloud PBX seats in Europe increased by seven percent to 137,000.
Despite improvements to its supply chain, Computacenter says revenues for its UK arm declined amid reduced demand.
The reseller has released its interim results for the six months ending 30 June 2022 in its latest trading update.
While the business as a whole saw its revenue increase 16.6 percent year over year to £2.84 billion, there were drops in performance from the UK side.
Revenue in the UK business decreased by 7.1 percent to £653.8 million, with the technology sourcing business seeing a 10.5 percent reduction in revenue.
Intel CEO Pat [kicking] Gelsinger has warned that the company’s pants performance is likely to get worse before it gets better.
Talking to the gathered throngs at the Evercore ISI TMT conference, Gelsinger warned Intel will continue to lose share in the server processor market next year, with recovery starting in 2025.
After selling off its Optane memory business earlier this year, Intel is also likely to take further steps to streamline the bloated product portfolio of its dross.
Gelsinger’s return in early 2021 appeared to breathe new life into the firm, but he appears to be dealing with shedloads of more woe.
Dell is opening a new executive briefing centre (EBC) in London for executives to show off their mighty briefs.
The $5 million EBC will be Dell’s 10th globally. Dell claims it will help organisations across all sectors and industries to define a path for digital transformation.
The centres offer dedicated spaces for companies to meet with senior Dell executives, subject specialists, partners and peers to discuss their challenges, opportunities and goals.
Security outfit Distology has acquired German software consultancy Squareball, its first-ever acquisition.
Squareball was founded in 2017. It started as a digital products consultancy and specialises in software engineering, product design, solution architecture and identity access management.
It is the third European office for UK-based Distology, the deal marks its first expansion into Germany.
CEO Hayley Roberts said Squareball was a “very credible services practice” that will add new technical capabilities to the distributor.
Security outfit Kaspersky has unveiled a revamped channel programme in the middle of a trying time amid ongoing controversies over the firm’s possible ties to the Russian government.
The Moscow-based cybersecurity firm, which has denied repeated suggestions by the US government that it has ties to the Kremlin, has announced new features to its United Partner Programme that include a revised rebate system, extended training programs, and more rewards for MSPs.
The move is being makes Kaspersky “more transparent and predictable” as well as covering more Kaspersky products and services. It includes new courses for MSPs and 10 new authorised training centres across the globe.
It is unclear if this will be enough to get Kaspersky out of trouble as the Ukraine war and the Russian government’s cyber attacks have drawn the AV company into the spotlight.
Distology, the specialist IT cybersecurity distributor, has today announced it is now a distribution partner of Jamf.
Jamf, the standard in Apple Enterprise Management, helps organisations manage and secure an Apple gear. It claims to be the only company that provides a complete management and security solution for an Apple-first environment that is enterprise secure, consumer simple and protects personal privacy.
Over the last two years, remote and hybrid working has become the norm yet, according to research from Distology, almost half of IT leaders admit their organisation’s cybersecurity isn’t good enough for remote working.
This demonstrates the importance of implementing managed security solutions, such as Jamf, which help to protect the mobile experience.
Midwich is telling the world+dog that its Nimans and DVS acquisitions have had a positive impact on its bottom line.
The distributor had a strong set of interim H1 numbers which were not not be sneezed at, reporting a 46 per cent increase in revenue from £390.1 million to £568.6 million for the six months ended 30 June.
Adjusted pre-tax profits improved at almost the same percentage of 47.7 percent, to come in at £19.2 million.
The acquisitions also increased the distributor’s exposure to the unified communications (UC) market and took it into a fresh space of video security products.
Stephen Fenby, managing director of Midwich Group, was able to strike an upbeat tone around the numbers and highlight the progress it had made compared to the rest of the market.
Kubernetes-based Elastisys and Avassa, which provides an edge-native application orchestration platform, have teamed up to offer a product which manages applications across distributed and centralised environments.
Avassa CTO Carl Moberg said that enterprises were looking to augment their central clouds with edge clouds for reasons including business continuity, improved customer experience and reduced bandwidth spend.
“As they look to place applications where they provide the best value for the business, they design applications with a mix of centralized and distributed components. Leveraging the benefits of both domains can provide significant value to the business when done right”, he said,
A two-tier approach to application management — the distributed edge being one and centralised public clouds being the other — can be seen in a variety of industries such as retail, manufacturing, logistics, and hospitality. This hybrid approach to application placement leads to a synergy effect as the two environments are combined using the compatible and innovative technology that Elastisys and Avassa jointly offer.
Softcat has scored a new contract to be the new device partner for Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust is giving Softcat £4 million to sort out its end-user devices, peripherals, pre-staging, deployment, engineering, and recycling services. It will help deliver modern health-specific solutions.
Adam Rice, public sector director at Softcat, said: “Softcat plc is delighted to be working with the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to support the organisation sort out its digital transformation.
Gregory Kurtzer said he had taken steps to keep Rocky Linux in the public domain forever to avoid what happened to CentOS.
Development of Rocky Linux began shortly after, in late 2020, Red Hat terminated development of CentOS, a community-based Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that had been in existence since 2004.
Rocky was named after Jason Dale “Rocky” McGaugh, a talented programmer involved in CentOS development, who died in December 2004 at the age of only 30.
Kurtzer said Rocky was a huge advocate of open source and a big fan of open source and he did not think he would have liked what happened with CentOS.
Enterprise security leaders in the UK are focused on cloud security, building up resilience against threats and aligning cybersecurity strategies with overall business goals.
A new research report The 2022 ISG Provider Lens Cybersecurity report from Information Services Group (ISG) claims cloud security is an enterprise manager’s top priority.
The growing use of cloud models such as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is forcing companies to adapt their cybersecurity approaches, with a focus on holistic resilience that requires more communication and training for employees and outside stakeholders, the report says.
Giganet has reversed the course of nature and stolen Cuckoo from the market.
The company announced that it was writing a cheque for Cuckoo as part of its UK growth plans.
Since launching its fibre broadband service to households just over 12 months ago, Giganet has seen its reach extend to over nine million homes across the UK.
Giganet said that both it and Cuckoo will work together to disrupt the UK broadband market by prioritising service and customer experience as the rollout of full-fibre accelerates over the next few years.
Both providers have been vocal against ‘loyalty taxes’ and price hikes, pledging to charge loyal customers the same as new customers, and opting not to increase charges mid-contract, with prices currently frozen until 2023.
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