Tag: SHI

Hutchinson quits SHI after a year

Posted on February 2, 2023 by - Moving People

SHI’s UK MD Donavan Hutchinson has today announced he is leaving the reseller after only exactly a year in the role.

Hutchinson was a big appointment for SHI having worked expanding global enterprise experience for  with multinational solutions providers for 20 years.

Hutchinson also left his previous job managing UK/European expansion for Paragon Micro UK after a year.

Before that he worked for PCM for nearly three years. As Managing Director UK/International, he helped grow sales from ground level to $62 million in his first calendarized trading year with second-year revenues surpassing $95 million.

In a LinkedIn post, Hutchinson said he was departing to focus on personal goals.

 

Reseller SHI hit by malware attack

Posted on July 8, 2022 by - News

Malware, Wikimedia CommonsReseller SHI has revealed that it was the target of a “co-ordinated and professional malware attack” over the 4 July weekend.

The company, which provides IT products and services to businesses around the world, said there was currently no evidence to suggest that its customers were impacted by the attack.

In a statement the company said: “Thanks to the quick reactions of the security and IT teams at SHI, the incident was swiftly identified and measures were enacted to minimise the impact on SHI’s systems and operations. These preventative measures included taking some systems, including SHI’s public websites and email, offline while the attack was investigated and the integrity of those systems was assessed.

SHI cleans up in the UK

Posted on February 19, 2018 by - News

3436142cf514e59f3acf71e47579299aUS reseller SHI International has reported a 12 percent annual spike in revenues, and the UK was its star.

SHI’s revenue in 2017 topped $8.5 billion making it a record year for the firm. While its corporate and SMB division witnessed 21 percent year on year revenue growth, it was the UK which drove its international business with 28 percent growth.

SHI had 10 per cent year on year growth for its commercial and strategic enterprise division, while its public sector unit grew five percent.

CEO Thai Lee said that for the last 18 months, SHI made significant investments in onboarding additional resources and expertise in support of public and hybrid cloud solutions featuring technologies such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

“Through intense in-house training and aggressive talent acquisition, we’ve become a holistic resource for customers, capable of supporting both the technology and the business aspects needed to enable and support advanced IT solutions,” said Lee.

Microsoft remained SHI’s top partner in 2017, growing 15 percent over 2016, while Amazon Web Services was the fastest growing top-tier partner for the second year in a row, with a 62 percent leap in the past year.

Cisco saw the second-fastest growth of its top vendors, with revenue 33 percent higher than in 2016. Dell, HP Inc., VMware, Lenovo, Adobe, Apple, HP Enterprise, and Symantec rounded out the list of SHI’s top 11 partners.