Organisers have given up running what used to be the largest tech trade show.
CeBIT, in Hannover, was popular once, although not loved by hacks who christened it Snowbit on the grounds that it was always cold and had all the picturesque colour of the Slough Trading Estate.
CeBIT once boasted 850,000 visitors a year, but those days have gone the way of the dodo.
High penetration of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology in critical infrastructure and the manufacturing sector has resulted in a growing number of potential cyber-attacks.
Softcat has reported growth in revenue, gross profit and operating profit for the first quarter although stopped sort of quoting any actual numbers.
The reseller said that customer demand had “remained strong across all segments” during the three months ending 31 October.
CEO Graeme Watt said: “We’ve traded well during the first quarter of our new financial year and, while there’s still a long way to go, we’re pleased with the performance so far and are where we’d want to be at this stage.
Nutanix launched a new suite of offerings designed to create a more unified fabric across different cloud environments, so IT teams can run applications on the optimal platform, and are not restricted by technology.
Dubbed Xi Cloud Services is comprised of five distinct offerings at launch, including Xi Leap, a native extension of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform providing disaster recovery as a service.
Nutanix’s recent Enterprise Cloud Index has shown enterprise workloads running in both private and public clouds are expected to jump nearly 20 percent in the
UK-based data centre outfit EkkoSense has spotted several data centre optimisation trends which could make real difference for organisations in 2019.
According to EkkoSense’s Chief Technology Officer Stu Redshaw said that there are multiple innovations that are ready to generate real advantages for data centre operators next year.
He said that even the best run data centres still have considerable cooling and thermal issues. And with cooling now representing around 30 percent of a data centre’s operating costs, it’s more important than ever for IT teams to focus on monitoring, managing and maximising their data centre performance as effectively as possible.
Secure infrastructure Cyxtera has expanded availability of its Cyxtera Extensible Data Centre (CXD) platform.
For those who came in late, CXD is an intelligent, software-defined platform that enables customers to sort out connectivity and dedicated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) on-demand within and across Cyxtera data centres.
It is provisioned via API or web portal, enterprises leveraging CXD can easily procure, deploy, and configure services in less than a day, allowing for rapid expansion of existing colocation environments and speeding time to market in new locations.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has written a cheque for the AI and big data start-up BlueData.
BlueData was founded in 2012 and has raised £30.6 million. HPE said the deal will “significantly expand” its footprint in the AI and machine-learning space and bolster its big data analytics capabilities.
Milan Shetti, SVP of HPE’s storage and big data business, said: “BlueData has developed an innovative and effective solution to address the pain points all companies face when contemplating, implementing, and deploying AI/ML and big data analytics.
Liverpool-based SysGroup saw sales top £5 million, but its losses widened due to two recently acquired companies and the roll out of a new CRM system.
For the six months ending 30 September 2018, the managed services provider saw revenue rise 47.3 percent year on year to £5.8 million.
Adam Binks, who was appointed the group’s CEO earlier this year, said: “During the period we have focused on execution, and I am pleased to report that the group has made steady progress in the first half of the year during my first period as CEO. The increasing proportion of recurring revenue demonstrates the ongoing success of our strategy and position as a consultative-led provider of managed IT services and cloud hosting.
Analysts working for the prediction and divination department at Gartner group are predicting that infrastructure providers should be raking in cash and need to look beyond the edge to make even more.
Big G said that many think that that edge computing was the place to focus, but they need to look a bit further.
While Gartner is not disputing that the edge is essential but is warning infrastructure providers that they need to keep following the demands for customers to deliver ‘digital touchpoint services’.
The analyst house defines a digital touchpoint as being any interaction with a digital device, product or service. An example would be a question and answer session with a chatbot or communication with a fitness tracker.
Cyxtera Technologies, the secure infrastructure company, announced the expanded availability of its Cyxtera Extensible Data Centre (CXD) platform in key markets.
CXD is an intelligent, software-defined platform that enables customers to dynamically provision connectivity and dedicated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) on-demand within and across Cyxtera data centres. Provisioned via API or web portal, enterprises usingCXD can easily procure, deploy, and configure services in less than a day, allowing for rapid expansion of existing colocation environments and speeding time to market in new locations.
The outfit which buys tech for UK coppers wants an IT supplier for a huge £500m framework but you are going to have to be quick.
The contract will see the Police ICT Company which, according to its website, “acts as a bridge between policing technological and commercial worlds” work with a supplier to manage the relationships with all its VARs, OEMs and independent software vendors.
The Police ICT Company was set up to help police forces reduce spending in the wake of public sector cuts.
It claims its aim is to “cut the costs of police ICT, reduce duplication, improve collaboration and improve the public’s experience of dealing with the police”.
Small and medium businesses are suffering wi-fi issues that have the potential to undermine their customer relationships and deny them the chance to retain and grow their user base, according to a new report from Netgear.
Most SMEs realise they need to offer customers access to decent wi-fi huge numbers but are finding the task too tricky. More than 90 percent of UK SMEs had some problem with wi-fi. Those issues included poor coverage, dropped connections and problems with speed. But the majority of SMEs quizzed by the networking vendor (82 percent) viewed it as essential to be able to offer a good wi-fi connection, with half needing it for customer retention.
Glasswall has obtained Microsoft’s Gold ISV Co-Sell status which means its sales teams will work with Vole on targeted customer opportunities and related account planning activities, in the commercial and government, defence and security sectors.
Glasswall has developed a Deep-File Inspection, Remediation and Sanitisation Technology – d-FIRST – which prevents malware and understanding of organisational risk from file-borne cyber-attacks. It reverses the traditional signature-based security approach by validating ‘known good’ elements of a file which are finite and bounded, regenerating a new identical and safe copy, typically in fractions of a second.
Networking king Cisco has written a cheque for UK outfit Ensoft to add talent and technology to its service provider support.
Ensoft has a £10 million turnover and develops Cisco’s IOS XR features. After the deal, it will become part of the vendor’s Service Provider Networking Group.
Writing in his bog, Rob Salvagno, vice president of corporate business development and head of Cisco’s M&A and venture investment team, said that the purchase fitted in with the ambition to, “simplify service partner networks through automation and programmability”.
Managed services specialist Redcentric’s CEO has fallen on his sword after a disappointing first half of the year.
Chris Jagusz has resigned from the Board and as Chief Executive with Peter Brotherton, CFO assuming the leadership for now.
What led to that decision were the numbers for the first six months to 30 September, which saw revenues drop by 7.6 percent year on year to £47.5 million and worryingly for an MSP the recurring monthly revenue slipped by 7.4 percent to £41.3 million.
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