Tag: Amazon Web Services

Westcon-Comstor caught in AWS’s web

Posted on January 31, 2024 by - News

Tech distributor Westcon-Comstor has struck a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that it thinks will open new doors for its partners and vendors.

The partnership aims to make the transaction process on AWS Marketplace easier and faster, offering growth chances while boosting the role of the channel in the booming cloud marketplace economy.

The deal, under the Designated Seller of Record (DSOR) scheme with AWS, lets Westcon-Comstor list its vendors’ products on AWS Marketplace privately.

This means sharing quotes better with the company’s network of 12,000 channel partners around the world.

Amazon Web Services releases new clouds in the EU

Posted on October 30, 2023 by - News

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is about to offer its new sovereign cloud solution in the European Union (EU)  tailored to cater to government entities and industries with stringent regulatory requirements.

The move comes in response to the increasing demand for cloud solutions that adhere to Europe’s tight data privacy rules and the concept of ‘digital sovereignty,’ which emphasises European control over data and technology.

Dubbed the Amazon Web Services European Sovereign Cloud, this new infrastructure will operate separately from Amazon’s other cloud services, exclusively using servers located within the EU.

Bytes will scale migration offerings on AWS

Posted on February 22, 2023 by - News

Bytes is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of a plan to scale migration and modernisation offerings on the cloudy outfit.

Bytes is an AWS Solution Provider that wants to improve its products for existing and new customers and offer fully managed cloud services on AWS. These will include cloud security, storage, backup and disaster recovery, focusing on cloud cost optimisation.

AWS and Bytes say the partnership is targeted at the SMB market uses AWS’s cloud native data and AI and machine learning solutions for verticals like Retail, Financial Services and Hospitality.

Oracle tells 200 workers to get off of its cloud

Posted on November 4, 2022 by - News

Oracle has laid off more than 200 employees from its cloud unit.

The cuts occurred this week and affected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The cuts follow other redundancies in Oracle’s North America cloud and technology unit.

The affected roles include ones working on OCI object storage, operations and support and engineering architecture.

The news comes months after Oracle completed its acquisition of healthcare systems vendor Cerner. Oracle’s plans to dominate electronic healthcare systems with its new subsidiary.

Oracle reported its most recent quarterly earnings in September, avoiding the heightened cloud budget concerns voiced by cloud vendor giants Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud in its October earnings reports.

Cybersecurity outfits form open saucy team

Posted on August 11, 2022 by - News

A group of key cybersecurity companies has allied to form a new open-source consortium to share key data.

The announcement by a group of cybersecurity companies—including Splunk, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Okta, Trend Micro, Tanium and Zscaler, among others—revealed the launch of a new consortium called the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF).

The cunning plan is to share product-normalising data in order to improve cybersecurity. All members of the cybersecurity community are invited to use and contribute to the OCSF.

Blue Blue snaps up cloudy Neudesic

Posted on February 17, 2022 by - News

Biggish Blue has acquired Microsoft Azure partner Neudesic to expand the tech vendor’s portfolio of hybrid multi-cloud and artificial intelligence services.

IBM said that Neudesic gives it more Azure cloud, data engineering and data analytics capabilities  The company has more than 1,500 cloud and data workers in the US and India.

IBM and Neudesic signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the statement.

NTT Data working with Amazon web services

Posted on December 20, 2021 by - News

NTT Data is teaming up with AWS to support clients’ use of cloud services to accelerate “digital transformation”.

The global agreement will combine NTT Data’s solutions that match clients’ business needs with AWS to develop new services.

The cloud solutions will be in areas such as data collection, analysis and security, and NTT Data say they will all be available on AWS Marketplace.

NTT says it also intends to increase the number of its AWS certified engineers in the NTT Data Group from 2,300 to 5,000 by the end of March 2025.

Vodaphone and Amazon edge to be on the same wavelength

Posted on June 17, 2021 by - News

Vodafone has coupled with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch Multi-access Edge Compute (MEC) services delivered with AWS Wavelength for Vodafone business customers in the UK.

The launch follows Vodafone trials with companies in a range of areas, including sports technology, autonomous transport, biometric security, remote virtual reality, and factory automation. Vodafone is the only telecoms operator able to offer business customers the combination of 5G and MEC services in the UK.

MEC infrastructure is better known as moving services ‘closer to the edge of the network’. AWS Wavelength brings AWS compute and storage services to the edge of Vodafone’s network, enabling applications that require increased speeds, massive bandwidth, and ultra-low latency, such as industrial automation, video analytics and machine learning inference (artificial intelligence) at the edge, and interactive live video streaming.

The pair said that hosting applications closer to the end-user means that data does not have to cross the internet to be processed in locations around the world. This approach means that lag, known as latency, can be almost eradicated as data is both captured and processed closer to the device, offering much faster response times and a much-improved experience.

US cloud is strangling European rivals

Posted on January 19, 2021 by - News

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google are killing off European Cloud provider according to new data from Synergy Research.

The European cloud market tripled since the beginning of 2017, hitting €5.9 billion in Q3 of 2020. But European cloud providers have seen market share decline from 26 percent to 16 percent.

WS, Google and Microsoft now account for two-thirds of the regional market, with the remainder of the market made up of smaller US and Asian providers, who are also losing market share.

Synergy also estimated that the full-year European cloud infrastructure services revenue for 2020 will be over €23 billion, a 31 percent increase on the previous year. IaaS and PaaS services makeup nearly 80 percent of that market and are growing much faster than the smaller hosted or managed private cloud segment, it revealed.

AWS opens marketplace to code writing partners

Posted on December 7, 2020 by - News

Amazon Web Services has started a new programme gives VARs, channel partners and MSPs a new and faster way to market their intellectual property.

The big idea is that by encouraging channel partners that develop their own applications they will bring them to market via the Amazon Marketplace.

AWS announced that consulting partners that build their own software will now be able to distribute their software via the AWS Marketplace like any other independent software vendor (ISV).

Amazon Web Services names its favourite partners

Posted on November 11, 2020 by - News

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just named its favourite partners for the year.

The awards are to recognise members of the AWS Partner Network (APN) who are leaders in the channel and whom AWS thinks play a key role in helping customers to drive innovation and build solutions on the AWS Cloud.

The winners this year include:

APN Consulting Partner of the Year: Accenture
The Accenture Amazon Web Services Business Group in the UK and Ireland has enabled enterprises to accelerate their pace of digital innovation and realise incremental business value from cloud adoption and transformation.

Cohesity teams up with Amazon Web Services

Posted on October 15, 2020 by - News

Cohesity has formed a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to address a growing need for flexible, available, scalable, and reliable data management. The pair are  bringing to market a new Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) offering.

The DMaaS solution is designed to provide enterprise and mid-size customers with a radically simple way to back up, secure, govern, and analyse their data, managed directly by Cohesity and hosted on AWS.

Amazon said that as data continues to grow exponentially, many organisations are looking to manage data in ways that allow their IT teams to focus on policy versus infrastructure, provide consumption-based pricing, accelerate the move to the cloud, make it easy to derive value from data, remove data infrastructure silos, and support multiple use cases — including data backup and archiving, disaster recovery, file and object services, copy data management, and analytics.

Microsoft has new UK managing director for enterprise commercial business

Posted on September 8, 2020 by - Moving People

Gavin Jackson has joined Microsoft as the vendor’s managing director for enterprise commercial business in the UK.

Jackson said: “I am excited to join Microsoft, whose cloud business has gone from strength to strength in the UK thanks to a reputation for putting customers first and supporting businesses on their digital transformation journeys.

Tech Data wants to train partners on Amazon cloud

Posted on June 11, 2020 by - News

Tech Data wants more than  50 partners to take part in its fully funded Amazon Web Services (AWS) training and enablement programme.

The initiative will help partners rise up through the tiers of AWS’ partner programme,

Tom Ellis, senior manager for AWS at Tech Data UK, said the programmer was an value-add that it’s delivering for partners who want to take advantage of the growth his company is seeing with AWS cloud services.

Outfits ignoring the cloud are defying gravity

Posted on May 18, 2020 by - News

Companies which ignore the cloud are trying to defy gravity, according to AWS’s CEO of Amazon Web Services.

At  the vendor’s online Summit event, Andy Jassy said he understood why some organisations are wary of a cloud move, but that they will be at a competitive disadvantage if they don’t.

“There is still a segment of companies trying to fight gravity and they argue that they can still do the infrastructure less expensively than can be done in the cloud or that they have enough services to allow their organisation to move as quickly as people can in the cloud. We’ve done many thousands of these comparisons over the years and I don’t think I’ve yet seen a company that can move at the cost structure and the pace of changing their customer experience that they can in AWS and in the cloud.”