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Security outfit Opengear  has appointed John Svenson its new Regional Sales Manager for the Nordics.

Svensson will use his extensive experience to continue Opengear’s rapid expansion across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland. The appointment comes amid record revenue growth for Opengear across the entire EMEA region.

In the last 12 months, Opengear has acquired more than 200 new customers, signed up 14 new distributors, and expanded headcount by 20 percent. Financial services, banking, telecom, higher education, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, oil and gas, local and central government, computer gaming, online gambling, technology, and managed services are sectors where Opengear said it has seen significant customer growth.  Read more…

Nearly half of senior IT decision-makers globally say that more than quarter of the outages their organisations have suffered over the past two years have been caused by changes to the network infrastructure.

A recent survey of 500 global IT decision makers commissioned by Opengear  entitled ‘Measuring the True Cost of Network Outages,’ found that 44 per centof survey respondents said they were ‘increasing the level of automation across the network’ to drive up network resilience within their organisation and combat these outages.

In addition, nearly 60 percent of the overall survey sample said their organisation had introduced a NetOps automation approach across its network operations. Significantly, 89 percent said that it had made that network more reliable, while just a percent overall said it had become less reliable speaking of the high-reward, low-risk nature of the approach. Read more…