Today's confirmation however does not reassure everyone, as BT gets on with it
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Microsoft improves Skype for Business with acquisition
Redmond wants consumer grade ease of use for its business UC solution
Lifesize gets $17.5m funding to leave Logitech and tackle video market
Three venture capital firms put in cash to give firm free rein in cloud conferencing market
Elastifile gets extra $35m funding to get more apps on flash
Israeli startup gets backing from six unnamed industry backers
ANS acquires Eison to boost turnover to £60m
Intelligent WANs and SDN to be targeted by expanding hybrid cloud provider
Cloud pricing for enterprises falls by two-thirds says TCL
AWS still leads the market with its lower pricing and feature set but others are catching up and market pricing is now 'stabilising'
Talon sharpens up for another growth year
SoftwareONE, OCSL, Synergics, SMS, Nephos, Sol-Tec, Dot-NET and SoftwareLogic among new VARs signed
Welsh government’s NPS names firms in £800m IT framework
Softcat, Insight, Computacenter and Centerprise among the winners across 12 categories
Datto slashes backup appliance prices for partners
Economies of scale and lower component costs are helping to reduce prices
BT wins six year network deal with Nationwide
The deal will allow the building society to deploy the latest customer facing and back office technology
Capita books cloud library deal with North Yorkshire council
County council to use new library management and mobile access system from outsourcer
Six Degrees to recruit 50 staff with £12m investment drive
The mid-market MSP was acquired six months ago
Chess gets £50m in Barclays funding for more acquisition moves
IRW Systems, Parachute IT, ebillz and Integra ICT have been acquired in recent years
Liberata in £23m Worcestershire council contract win
The outsourcer says it will improve HR and financial services at the authority and the county's schools
Selection Services acquired by Castle Street for £35m
MXC Capital is helping to finance the deal and is taking a stake in Castle Street
Genesys acquires SpeechStorm to bolster self-service offering
Embracing the challenge of personalising the customer experience and managing customer journeys
Truphone buys Internet of Things platform from startup CoSwitched
The technology will allow international companies to use a single IoT management platform to connect devices
NetApp to acquire data centre flash firm SolidFire for $870m
NetApp says it can now fully address all the key all-flash data storage markets
Dell names 50 firms that could become major players
Dell says the IT startups are 'disruptors' and could become 'household names'
Synextra marks first year of SME cloud services with £1.2m goal
Cloud-based virtual desktop service now has over 50 SME clients across the UK
Cisco takes stake in Intersec
Analytics, location-based services, customer base management and contextual marketing is what Cisco wants
Crayon takes ‘strategic’ stake in Puzzlepart
The Microsoft CSP is keen on using Puzzlepart to expand its cloud offering
Camworth acquires Cabletec to widen service offering
Camworth plans to relocate its logistics to Cabletec’s premises in Bristol, while keeping its HQ where it is
Smartpipe opens data monetisation R&D centre in Wales
Welsh government puts in £1m to help create over 40 high-skilled IT jobs as firm expands into international markets
Manchester’s Avecto gets $49m in venture capital
The endpoint security firm serves 600 enterprise clients and is expanding its channel
Rural Essex gets 1,000mbps broadband with Gigaclear
Gigaclear is investing £5.5 million in the Superfast Essex Rural Challenge Project
CGI to provide Armed Forces electronic health record system
The UK Ministry of Defence is currently determining its long-term medical IT requirements
Ingram Micro acquires Odin cloud service platform
Around 500 Parallels staff expected to move over to Ingram
Sage reaches 100,000 Sage One subscriptions in the cloud
Sage's Global Partner Programme (GPP) to support resellers was launched last month
Capita wins Scottish public sector pensions IT contract
It's the latest IT contract win for Capita in Scotland
