Only India and China showing any real growth as other technologies challenge
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Relayware gets $11m in funding for PRM expansion efforts
Extra VC funding shows partner relationship management is big business
EMC World: EMC tackles the IoT data avalanche
EMC launches Native Hybrid Cloud, VxRack System 1000 and DSSD Enhancements to help companies cope with today’s digital landscape
Let’s get digital says CBI as UK firms struggle to keep pace
Not much progress over the last 30 years then, according to research
IDC: Global PC shipments down 11.5 percent
There are some green shoots of recovery though, says the analyst
EMC’s VCE is moving into the heart of London’s Tech City
EMC subsidiary VCE is moving into offices in London’s Old Street to play startup amid Shoreditch disruptors
World IT spending to slump in 2016 says Gartner
But there are still hotspots to take advantage of says the analyst house
Intelisys enters EMEA communications distribution market
Hires UK-based channel head and now targeting EMEA sales agents to sell telecoms and cloud services
Foxconn finally agrees Sharp takeover
£2.4bn deal comes in far lower than original agreement following several wrangles
TelcoSwitch wants more UC channel partners to support UK entry
The supplier is currently on-boarding three resellers a week
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
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise touts network on demand service
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise joins rivals in offering pay-per-use for networking services for businesses
Hosted Desktop UK moves to The Bunker to support cloud customers
No 'power outages or traffic jams' from being outside London says service provider
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
Two-thirds of enterprises to spend more on SDI this year
Software-defined networking and software-defined storage is big business says analyst 451
Lenovo and Juniper agree data centre partnership
Match made in heaven? Lenovo servers, Juniper networking know-how combine for ‘hyperconverged’ data centres
UK IT pros are cheapskates when it comes to flash storage
Price or performance? UK businesses think cost of flash is still a major factor in implementation as performance-savvy France and US pull ahead
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
Most cloud providers not protecting users against DROWN threat
Skyhigh Cloud Security Labs says average enterprise is using 56 leaky cloud services
GCHQ director: Tech companies ‘routinely’ help law enforcement
Security services don’t need a master pass-key for all encrypted communications, but IT companies should do their bit argues GCHQ’s Robert Hannigan
CMS Distribution to offer full AVG business security suite
The distie entered the security market last year
PhishMe launches global partner programme
Also unveils SMB edition of its anti-phishing training simulator for the channel
Cloud Innovation Awards shortlist announced
The awards will be presented at NetEvents Rome later this month
International Women’s Day: IT shows way forward on pay and promotion
But leading companies believe more has to be done throughout the IT chain to quicken progress further
Barnes & Noble stops selling the Nook in the UK
US book seller can't compete with Amazon's Kindle as it gives UK e-book readers less than two weeks' notice
Research: Channel should prepare for digital refreshes across firms
There's still a lot more to come from Windows 10 going by the wait and see game of UK CIOs
Intermedia offers cut-price combined file sharing and backup to the channel
SecuriSync in the cloud has been bolstered and fully supports Office 365 and other services
Yorkshire Building Society rolls out IT vending machines for staff
Headsets, chargers and mice are among the items that can be quickly replaced via Computacenter
Avnet signs European Linux Software Defined Networking deal
But what is SDN? ask most UK firms in Exponential-e research
