Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) moves on cloud data storage providers after complaints from consumers over prices and lost data
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Cryptosoft appoints new sales and channels head for IoT effort
M2M and Internet of Things data encryption market is expected to take off
‘Intelligent’ Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 released
Dynamics 2016 makes use of the Cortana analytics suite
Silent Edge signs global sales training deal with Richardson
Belief Platform is used to improve the sales skills of personnel and show the board that the right training is taking place
Centrify brings in new identity management partners
The company moved to a two-tier channel strategy last month
Capita wins Scottish public sector pensions IT contract
It's the latest IT contract win for Capita in Scotland
Quorum appoints first disaster recovery reseller in Scotland
Supplier's EMEA channel partner count has grown rapidly in a year
Intercity acquires Imerja to create larger telecoms and IT firm
Intercity acquired cloud communications, network services and hosting specialist Gage Networks earlier this year
Gradwell offers Office 365 via Odin service automation
The Odin CSP package provides Gradwell with a flexible solution for automating customer on-boarding and service delivery
European data centre co-location market grows 6%
CBRE says mergers and acquisitions and cloud take-up is driving the co-location market
Stone Group trumpets Toshiba education framework deal
Stone Group previously supplied Stone, Samsung and Acer devices through the framework
SSE expands Ethernet fibre network with new BT exchanges
SSE says it has experienced a 250 percent increase in orders for its Ethernet services in the last 12 months
Essex County Council gets £1.9m fibre broadband dividend
Superfast Essex is praised by the government as BT partnership takes off
IT and telecoms firms suffer the most DDoS attacks
Channel firms are being left vulnerable says Kaspersky Lab
Devoteam gets new country manager
The service performance company works with BMC, CA, Google and ServiceNow
Eaton touts ‘exclusive’ battery free UPS solution
Eaton's 'supercapacitors' are said to provide a 'convenient and affordable alternative' in applications
Intuition is key: We don’t need big data say CIOs
Most CIOs prefer to use professional experience when dealing with external events and customer requirements shows Colt study
Dell integrates Cylance AI technology for new security offering
Cylance recently received $42m in equity funding from a variety of investors including Dell Ventures
Amazon Web Services builds mammoth data centre wind farm
AWS recently announced that it was building data centres to serve the on-shore data needs of UK customers
SAP resells GENBAND’s communications PaaS solution
Earlier this year SAP signed a similar cloud technology deal with Workforce for its HR and payroll solutions
Citrix axes another 1,000 jobs as it aims to increase profits
The GoTo business is being spun off as the virtualisation and cloud access company succumbs to pressure from activist shareholders
CGI wins £20m electricity industry BPO contract
Outsourcer's deal will help smart meter roll-out and comes after water industry contract win too
Endeavour World opens ERP consultancy in the UK
Will target the mid-market using Greentree Software, finding areas that Sage, SAP and Oracle aren't addressing
SystemFlip makes Cloud Distribution first UK backup distie
Cloud Distribution says it plans to recruit up to six specialist storage and virtualisation resellers
Blueberry helps Amazon Web Services users cut costs
CMM tool ensures AWS EC2 servers only work when a company's users do
Sharp UK boosts channel efforts with new marketing head
Sharp is moving away from low margin consumer goods and towards higher profit business solutions
Druva launches MSP partner programme for cloud services
Service providers rewarded for pushing inSync data availability and governance platform
Red Hat expands its channel for open source data storage
New reseller business opportunities from software-defined storage
NetApp and Hewlett Packard launch rival storage solutions
The move towards hybrid clouds and all flash solutions in data centres are key battle-grounds
NetApp and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise in flash Berlin clash
There's no escaping each other in the all flash storage wars as the gloves come off in Germany's capital
