IBM adds to its recent major security acquisitions to become a truly one stop shop for the security breach industry
Channel Strategy
Kaminario trumpets flash market progress
Resellers signing up in droves claims all channel storage firm
EC clears £44bn Dell EMC takeover
European Commission follows US Federal Trade Commission in clearing Dell-EMC merger after raising no competition concerns
John Lewis searches for first batch of IT degree apprentices
The major electrical retailer starts its scheme this September and companies across the IT industry are expected to follow suit
Research confirms big channel opportunity in education market
New computers, cloud use, BYOD and improved printing in big demand among teachers and students
Wifinity aims to sell a fifth of its wifi services via the channel
Fujitsu, Logicalis, Redcentric and Serco are already signed up and wifi provider has launched a new partner programme to increase the number of resellers and MSPs
Dell says half of EMEA sales now through channel
Company's new channel head says there are more incentives to come
TmaxSoft hires another ex-Oracle man to bolster database challenge
Tibero licencing agreement is approved by the Campaign for Clear Licencing
SAP Research: SMEs benefit from digital but need to get ‘more personal’
Growth comes from big data and CRM but avoid relying on it too much shows SAP research
Cisco: Digital transformation will usher in analytics-driven ‘fourth era of IT’
Focus: Cisco has spent big to diversfiy from networking and new CTO Zorawar Biri Singh says it is ideally placed to deliver analytics, IoT-driven business transformation
Atos to power RS Components customer effort with the cloud
In a hybrid cloud move, RS Components is moving to a private cloud to support core infrastructure with access to public cloud services too.
Tribal finally finds a new chief
Former Allocate Software CEO joins the troubled company
Sage launches Sage Marketplace for ISVs
The launch follows the recent introduction of Sage’s Global Partner Programme
Take your business sky-high with a .cloud domain
New addresses now on sale, but you’ll need to be quick to bag a .cloud domain
VMware and EMC unveil hyperconverged VxRail appliance
VCE’s hyperconverged appliance family targeting branch offices and the mid-market
ShoreTel launches developer programme for new UC portfolio
The company revamped its main channel programme last autumn
Castle Street acquires hosting and cloud provider C4L for £20.2m
The company announced that it was buying IT solutions firm Selection Services for £30m last month
UK tech firms the most optimistic about growth
CompTIA research questioned over 670 IT Industry executives
Interxion spending £22m on third Irish data centre
Dutch colocation firm also expands data centre operations in Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Copenhagen
UK tech industry growth outpacing UK economy
But critics say there’s still a North/South divide as even far-flung hubs like Cornwall hit massive growth
Toshiba launches pan-European PC marketing campaign
Make IT work effort is backed by a €1 million-plus spend said Toshiba
Lexmark unveils new global partner programme
Company takes a holistic approach to channel support
Toshiba widens channel in growing EMEA AV market
Aims for 50 percent growth in partner numbers during 2016
Windows 10 is already used by 18 percent of EMEA firms
Last year, 40 percent of Spiceworks members predicted their business would adopt Windows 10 by the end of July 2016, 12 months after launch
Apogee opens managed print base in Scotland
Company expands from regional English base
Unify signs unified comms deal with telent
OpenScape Voice solution becomes part of new telentConnect service
Microsoft offers earlier bonuses for Office 365 partners
Redmond is offering easier deployments for smaller Office 365 users
Wearables sales to reach record 275m in 2016
Apple Watch and VR headset sales will continue to push wearable numbers ever higher, according to Gartner estimates
Memblaze flash EMEA customers get improved support
Brings in Solid Systems Global for incident reporting support and hardware replacements
OpenStack adoption in the UK hits 80 percent, claims SUSE
But cost and complexity woes remain as public cloud adoption easily surpasses private cloud sales
