Hybrid Cloud - first in a series of pieces on the developing hybrid cloud market
Channel Strategy
BT restructures after EE acquisition as fibre broadband base reaches 3.7m
BT divides into six units serving consumer, business and wholesale markets as £12.5bn EE deal concludes
Optical firm ProLabs opens new global HQ in Gloucestershire
Move comes after expanding channel ecosystem
Microsoft offers cloud storage partners new Office collaboration, iOS integrations
Microsoft’s cloud storage partners such as Box and Dropbox can now take advantage of real-time collaboration, easy attachments and iOS integration
Cloud contact centre firm NewVoiceMedia gets $30m funding
Gets new backer BGF and Salesforce puts more in too
HCL Technologies acquires virtualisation solutions firm P2P
Berkshire firm is a Citrix Gold Partner and is being bought by the Indian giant for £8m
Lenovo and SAP aim to boost customer agility in the digital economy
The deal is hoped to bolster an existing partnership, combining SAP solutions with Lenovo’s data centre offerings
Western Digital acquires 100 storage patents from IBM
Distributed storage, object storage and emerging non-volatile memory are key
SimpliVity offers new hyperconverged partner programme
New flexible, consumption-based pricing model, allowing service providers to pay based on the resources they consume
CIF and Bloor hold cloud migration workshop to lift mystery
Cloud Industry Forum event comes as Gartner predicts $200bn-plus public cloud market
Hortonworks opens big data support centre in Ireland
Channel ecosystem to be supported by Cork site
Annodata posts big jump in sales and profits for year
Company's cloud strategy is helping matters
Cisco invests in Internet of Things platform firm Kii
Internet of Everything providers to be supported in cloud service and analytics
ForeScout becomes a $1bn company after new equity funding
'Agent-less' security firm homes in on burgeoning Internet of Things market
Atos completes acquisition of UC player Unify
Unify signed a UC technology deal with Virgin Media Business last year
Bill Cate to earn channel stripes at Zebra Technologies
Sun Microsystems and Motorola veteran moves to assets visibility company
3CX unveils new IP PBX partner programme
The company has 3,000 partners in Europe already
PwC acquires Outbox to bolster cloud services business
Outbox works on Salesforce, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft Dynamics projects
Reliability trumps price for storage as flash takes off
Research from Western Digital and Crucial maps the storage trends
Nimble Storage strengthens EMEA executive team
Flash storage firm launched a new partner programme last year
Chess makes the right moves for growth
The VAR is on course for more acquisitions in 2016
IBM and CSC ink hybrid cloud deal for enterprises
This deal follows IBM's move at the end of last year to make it easier for firms to link to IBM Cloud
WEF: 7.1m jobs to be culled as a result of new technology
But data analysts and 'specialised sales staff' should be safe despite 2020 revolution
Worldwide IT spending plummets $216bn
But the data centre sector is faring well, according to Gartner, with a three percent growth in spending projected for 2016
Hortonworks launches big data partner programme
Major suppliers, consultants and resellers targeted in cloud analytics space
illusive goes channel only as it hires security veteran Tracy Pallas
Move follows a $22 million Series B funding round in October
HPE leads cloud hardware sales market but could be caught by Dell
Sales up 23 percent year on year to $7.6 billion in the third quarter says analyst IDC
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
D-Link appoints Paul Routledge as UK country manager
Networking industry veteran wants to expand and develop D-Link's channel business
Oracle shuns UK for 1,400 new EMEA cloud sales vacancies
Oracle names six locations where it wants to hire staff to help grow its cloud business
