A CompTIA channel study has found that resellers are clearly aware of the benefits of getting involved with technologies like IoT, 5G and AI because of the margins.
The report found that many are already selling in those categories or internally testing to make sure they can provide them to customers soon.
Channel services outfit, Agilitas IT Solutions announced the launch of a partner accreditation scheme.
It has also named Greensafe, Agilitas’ IT recycling and Workplace Support partner, as its first accredited partner, and aims to accredit a number of other specialist partners over the next year.
Greensafe has been selected as Agilitas’ first partner to receive accreditation for their assistance in helping Agilitas to deliver its latest workplace and ITAD offering.
Manchester-based web hosting business, Miss Group, has secured an increased £20 million debt funding commitment from HSBC UK to support its ambitious international growth strategy.
Miss Group has completed four acquisitions this year and alongside strong organic revenue growth, has increased revenues by 200 percent in the first nine months of 2019, it said.
Customer Communications Management (CCM), company Quadient has announced a reseller partnership with digital and customer experience transformation outfit Espire.
The deal lets Espire resell and support Quadient’s stuff to banking, insurance, travel, education, telecoms and utility sectors across the UK & Ireland, Nordics and Benelux.
Cyber Security Connect UK (CSC UK), a forum for chief information security officers (CISOs), is calling upon UK businesses to take the lead in tackling cyber-crime following the publication of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Annual Review.
Azure founder Deepak Patil has been appointed to lead Dell Technologies’ cloud business to become senior vice president of Dell Technologies Cloud Platforms and Solutions Group.
Patil spent more than 15 years at Microsoft from 2000 to 2015 holding a variety of general manager roles for Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure, Windows Azure Engineering and Global Foundation Services. He was one of the founding members of Microsoft’s public cloud Azure platform, creating the first-ever application to run on Azure while leading the design and growth of Azure.
K3 has warned that its earnings will be “significantly” below market expectations after seeing major client deals fall through.
In a trading update, K3 said that its second half had “started confidently”, but a major new contract then failed to materialise and a “large customer” entered administration. Clients are buying software at a slower pace than anticipated.
Off-payroll working reforms have caused the number of UK IT contractors to decline for the first time in a decade.
Accountancy firm Access Financial says that the number of IT contractors had increased nearly every year since 2008 but declined by 2.4 percent in 2018, from 125,012 to 121,989, according to government figures.
British businesses should change drastically up their game when it comes to being prepared and able to effectively deal with cyberattacks, according to Cyber Security Connect UK (CSC UK), an industry forum for cybersecurity professionals.
The call to action comes during European Cyber Security Month, the EU’s annual awareness campaign that takes place each October across Europe and aims to raise awareness of cybersecurity threats, promote cybersecurity among citizens and organisations; and provide resources to educate and share good practices.
The annual value of Europe’s managed services contracts dropped by more than ₤774.87 million in the third quarter amid recession fears.
Information Services Group’s EMEA ISG Index, which measures commercial outsourcing contracts with annual contract value (ACV) of ₤3.9 million or more, found the ACV of the region’s managed services contracts in the third quarter declined 31 per cent, or ₤792 million, quarter over quarter, to ₤1.8 billion. Compared with the 2018 third quarter, managed services ACV was down 17 percent.
IX Reach and data centre operator Evoque Data Centers Solutions has announced a partnership enabling Evoque’s “tenants” to directly use IX Reach’s full portfolio of solutions, including its SDN platform, One Portal.
Evoque and its enterprise customers can now form what’s claimed are secure, reliable, and resilient connections to global destinations and to extend private network connections to cloud providers, SaaS services, and other enterprises from Evoque data centres in Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Hong Kong with more markets expected in the near future through the IX Reach network.
Worldwide spending on security products and services will enjoy solid growth over the next five years according to beancounters at IDC.
According to the (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide, worldwide spending on security-related hardware, software, and services will be $106.6 billion in 2019, an increase of 10.7 percent over 2018. This amount will reach $151.2 billion in 2023 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.4 percent over the 2019-2023 forecast period.
The Financial Times’ fDi Intelligence division said that London was beaten by Vilnius as having have attracted the most greenfield Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects of tech startups per capita during the years 2016-2018.
The outfit announced the list of 30 cities with Vilnius ranked as the leading city and London, which came in second.
The Tech Start-up FDI Attraction Index 2019 measures at the city level the number of greenfield FDI projects made in the software and IT services sector per 100,000 inhabitants.
The Crown Commercial Services has confirmed that Foehn has been listed as an accredited supplier on the Network Services 2 (RM3808) procurement framework that authorises supply of telecommunications and network services to the whole of the UK Public Sector, associated bodies and agencies.
Foehn is listed in two categories, ‘IP Telephony Services’ and Contact Centre Services’.
Phoenix47 has bought Guardian Technologies, a privately held company that specialises in a range of security services. The acquisition will complement Phoenix47’s ever-growing security consulting practice.
Providing security consultancy, Guardian Technologies delivers a range of security services which apparently are designed to strengthen business applications and protect IT infrastructure.
The buy is seen as part of Phoenix47’s cunning plan to invest in and create next-generation cybersecurity services to help protect clients’ “end to end” business. That’s from top to bottom, it seems.
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