OpenStack users also getting excited about containers, NFV and bare metal
Cloud
Six Degrees Group acquires Carrenza to boost cloud offering
Expands cloud customer base in enterprise, government and the third sector at a stroke
IDC: Big increase in cloud infrastructure sales for the year
HPE, Dell, Cisco and EMC all saw big revenue growth says the analyst
NGD posts ‘strong’ annual results for data centre services business
And 2016 is so far 'robust' as companies move to hybrid cloud services
Mirantis wins OpenStack cloud contract with Volkswagen
Win comes as OpenStack player extends EMEA channel reach in a big way
Dimension Data acquires Ceryx to bolster Microsoft UC services
Latest company to strengthen it unified communications integration offering
Egenera makes migrating existing cloud workloads even easier
Move comes after a recent EMEA entry and as UK service providers move onto the wholesale cloud solution in numbers
Microsoft CEO woos business leaders with PCs, productivity and cloud
Ubiquitous computing, business processes and cloud. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sells his company’s vision at its first ever business leader-only event
IT departments still ‘fixated’ about cost cutting despite higher budgets
Almost half of IT budget holders don't put down revenue generation and customer loyalty as chief aims
Intelisys enters EMEA communications distribution market
Hires UK-based channel head and now targeting EMEA sales agents to sell telecoms and cloud services
Egenera makes big impact on channel with cloud services
New EMEA sales head tasked to sign up more distributors and MSPs after impressive regional sales growth
Newcastle ‘data’ centre will cost £30m and create 1,000 jobs
Newcastle University matches Budget’s £15 million pledge for big data research centre that will help businesses exploit benefits of a data-driven economy
IT channel remains bullish in the face of new competition
Canalys research shows optimism despite the maze of threats to resellers
Oracle ships public cloud to its customers’ own data centres
Oracle Cloud at Customer gives CIOs a potential workaround for regulatory and legislative barriers holding back public cloud adoption
Cobweb targets resellers with its Vuzion cloud aggregation vehicle
Effort is being led by ex-Microsoft SMB Managed Reseller 'cloud first' executive
BigTec UK taps into SDN growth with Nuage Networks distie deal
2016 could be the year of the SDDC and Exclusive Group distribution arm is tapping into it
Hosted Desktop UK moves to The Bunker to support cloud customers
No 'power outages or traffic jams' from being outside London says service provider
GoDaddy launches cloud servers and cloud applications
New cloud services from GoDaddy look to entice developers and IT pros to its pay as you go cloud platform
Insight UK becomes SkyKick’s largest EMEA distie
The cloud management platform optimises Office 365 on-boarding for service providers and resellers
HPE ‘still leader’ in cloud infrastructure market
The leading vendors are fighting over a $60 billion market
Huawei launches cloud communications platform for businesses
A “converged, open and agile” comms platform in the cloud from Huawei looks to capitalise on IoT, smart cities
Microsoft offers up to $100,000 bonuses for selling cloud Office and CRM
Partners have until the end of June to cash in
ExtraHop boasts channel progress for IT analytics offering
Cloud, virtualisation and software-defined networking are driving channel demand
Huawei and Deutsche Telekom launch ‘AWS-beating’ public cloud
Deutsche Telekom goes live with Huawei-built Open TelekomCloud and digs at ‘American competitors’ on Amazon cloud’s tenth birthday
Could 2016 be the year of the software-defined data centre?
The majority of UK and US senior execs think so, providing security is covered
Cloud firm iland moves into The Shard
A premium place in the clouds for iland to bring its clients
Google is finally ready to open source its data centre infrastructure
Google joins Facebook’s Open Compute Project as web giant starts work on standardised racks for artificial intelligence, machine learning
Fookes Software looks for partners as cloud email takes off
Email migration offering needs more resellers and MSPs to push it in the channel
Workers ‘that think’ for a living expect their jobs to be axed within 5 years
'Knowledge workers' happily walking towards the elephants' graveyard as a result of technology
European data protection regulation set to catch out cloud users
Spiceworks research shows EMEA firms aren't ready for it as they continue to focus on price, not compliance
