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News Channel News
- Flashpoint enters new chapter with global partner programme
- Cyxtera launches global channel partner programme
- US IT provider brings mainframe services to UK
- Splunk says channel investments driving growth
- ASG debuts global channel programme
- Alfresco Signs Up 40 New Partners to Channel Programme
- Channel Has Only Three Years to Make Most of ISDN switch-off, 3CX warns
- Hyperconvergence Vendor Syneto Signs with Hammer
- Exclusive Group Launches Global PASSport Services Offering
- Avecto Revamps UK & EMEA Channel Programme
News Channel Strategy
- Channel partner “disconnect” hindering growth
- Disruptiveness Is A Trend Best Managed Closely
- Why building a partner programme is a two-way street
- Computacenter Bolsters ServiceNow Business with TeamUltra Acquisition
- Red Hat Talks Channel Recruitment and Investment
- Veeam Launches Professional Services-Led Programme
- GDPR: Both A Threat And An Opportunity For The Channel
- Today’s Channel Business Model: Direct or Indirect?
- Channel Must Adapt to Meet Digital Transformation Demands
- Information Builders Signs Global Agreement with Avnet
News Channel Products
- Y-cam supports smart homes with cloud surveillance
- OKI offers partners half-price printers to test and sell
- Cyren chooses Cloud Distribution for cloud security line
- Northamber takes on Y3K’s premium IP CCTV range
- Zyxel’s cloud-based WiFi offering seeks to tempt resellers
- Clouditalia latest service provider to offer Rubrik backup
- Microsoft Teams enhances Office 365 collaboration offering
- Parallels doesn’t draw line on new partner benefits for RAS
- Acronis file sync and share service available via channel
- Microsoft competes with Apple with new Surface range
News IT Trends
- IT Firm Head Apologises For ‘Joke’ Suggesting Labour Voter Redundancies
- Exclusive Group Hires Vendor Manager for BigTec
- Colt CEO: SDN Focus And Distracted Rivals Will Make Us A Telecoms Disruptor Once More
- IT Department Still Gatekeeper in Tech Purchasing Decisions
- Civica Launches Digital Division
- Comms365 unveils M2M and IoT channel programme
- Channel chomps on Bamboo’s M2M/IoT wholesale offering
- Cloud infrastructure spending in 2016 jumps 16.2 percent
- IT pay in the North outstripping wages in the South
- Smart home products market to be worth $16.2bn
News Channel Finance
- 40 percent of top IT support firms struggling financially
- IT SMEs amass fortunes in business savings accounts
- Over two-thirds of SMEs have no finance fears over Brexit
- Skyhigh raises another $40m for cloud security offering
- Syscap unveils better online IT financing technology
- Brexit: We’re all doomed on IT spending claims Canalys
- Midwich offers channel £30m credit for SMART AV offerings
- UPDATE: Dell is ‘close’ to £1.4bn software division sale – DEAL HAS BEEN DONE
- Cisco invests in emerging flash storage firm Elastifile
- Flat sales for Dell ahead of the EMC merger
News Channel People
- Equinix Hires NetApp Channel Exec to Lead UK Partner Programme
- Change at The Top As Excalibur Communications Appoints New CEO
- Centrify Appoints New EMEA Channel Director
- Lenovo appoints Marco Andresen as EMEA COO & VP channel
- Carbon Black Recruits HPE Channel Director
- Lenovo Names Francois Bornibus New President EMEA
- ServiceNow Announces New EMEA Channel Chief
- SCC’s Andy Wright Joins XMA as Commercial Director
- Exclusive Group Bolsters Leadership Team
- XMA Appoints Kelvin Lee as Director of Procurement
News Retail
- Could The Channel Make Omnichannel Retail A Reality?
- Ocado sells smart home products alongside food
- Currys slammed for miss-selling HP Envy laptops
- Spectrum Vega+ console firm hits back in director bust-up
- Director fall-out at Spectrum games console company
- Tech Data opens up kid tracking market with Gator watch
- Samsung is beating Apple in UK phone market says vendor
- HP says it won’t honour £1.58 laptop orders
- Electronics are more expensive online at the weekend
- Mobile phone insurance market outstrips travel insurance
News Cloud
- Disruptiveness Is A Trend Best Managed Closely
- G-Cloud 9 Launches As Tony Singleton Leaves Civil Service
- Enterprise and Cloud Sales Boost Veeam’s Numbers
- How To Choose A Trusted Cloud Service Provider
- Tintri Announces New Cloud Certification Programme
- Dell EMC Launches Hub For Cloud Service Providers
- UK Cloud Adoption Hits a High
- Channel Demands White-Labelling from Cloud Vendors
- Veeam to Give Away $200 Million in Cloud Backup
- Security Skills Shortage Affecting UK Cloud Adoption
News Security
- VASCO and Nuvias expand distribution across EMEA
- Juniper Positions Security as Priority For Channel
- Hit by ransomware? The seven stages of grief your customers will go through
- Exertis Strengthens Security Portfolio with ESET
- Artificial Intelligence Not Yet Robust Enough for IT Channel
- Cybersecurity Skills Gap Means Opportunity for Channel
- Security Vulnerabilities “Rampant” In UK Firms
- Fortinet Launches New Programme for MSSPs
- Ingram Micro to Build Cloud Security Business
- Arrow Electronics Adds Antivirus Vendor Carbon Black to Security Line-Up
News Channel Procurement
- Trustmarque wins big IT management deal at learndirect
- Proact wins infrastructure deal at Swedish government agency
- Greenbone and Khipu team up to provide security to Jisc
- Computacenter main winner in £10.3m Liverpool council contract
- Mirantis wins OpenStack cloud contract with Volkswagen
- Computacenter makes modest profit on stagnant sales
- Government reviews Atos contracts after another IT failure
- Research: Channel should prepare for digital refreshes across firms
- Yorkshire Building Society rolls out IT vending machines for staff
- CACI buys Purple Secure Systems to bolster cybersecurity effort
News Acquisitions
- Sabio Invest in Customer Analytics with Rapport Acquisition
- CEO: Intermedia Acquisition Will Boost Channel Investment
- HPE Acquires Data Centre ‘Unicorn’ SimpliVity For £527m
- GCI Acquires UC Specialist Freedom Communications
- BT and EE’s Indirect Channels Merged To Create New Organisation
- OCF Gets Intense With Data Analytics
- Acquisition-Hungry Daisy Snaps Up Alternative Networks
- RedstoneConnect acquires IT services firm Commensus
- No trimming of NetApp flash offerings after acquisition
- Apogee’s Hibernian takeover gives it firmer Irish foothold
News Channel Research
- UK Businesses Passing The Buck When It Comes To GDPR
- Channelling the Future of IT
- Aging Channel Facing Recruitment Crisis
- Commercial Notebook Sales Grow Amid Falling PC Sales
- Channel Signals Continued Change to Sales Model
- IT Pros Spending Too Much Time Keeping Lights On
- Channel Facing Tough New Competition says CompTIA
- High-Growth MSPs Offer More Services Than Rivals
- Channel Firms Must Work To Catch Up To Cloud
- Most SMEs are not formalising cloud strategies
News Distribution
- Nuvias Launches Unified Communications Practice
- CrowdStrike on Hunt for Channel Partners With Cloud Distribution
- Avast Adds Northamber To UK Distribution Line-Up
- Ingram Micro Launches Cloud Referral Programme
- Nimans Expands Warehouse to Accommodate Expanded Portfolio
- Beta to Distribute NAKIVO in UK&I
- Exclusive Group Posts Record Results for 2016
- Exclusive Networks Bolsters Sales Team for 2017 Push
- Enghouse Interactive Signs Distribution Deal with Exertis
- Tech Data targets more resellers with tailored webstore
News Channel Events
- Firms told ‘get away from the sales guy’ for better security
- Dell EMC World leaving Austin for Las Vegas
- VMware warns channel digital transformation laggards
- Manchester to host big cloud industry event next month
- Canon UK gives staff extra holiday for its 40th anniversary
- ScanSource does its bit to nudge resellers into the cloud
- All aboard the Avnet hyper-converged infrastructure drive
- Dell EMC: New name and new products unveiled at EMC World
- Spigraph made EMEA Premier Distributor for ibml scanner range
- NetApp is Lisbon bound for annual partners conference
News Microsoft
- New Comms-care Services Set Microsoft Surface Against iPad in Enterprise
- Microsoft joins with old enemies to aid cloud development
- Office 365 users suffer yet another network outage
- Microsoft Teams enhances Office 365 collaboration offering
- Vuzion and ICS join forces to give SMBs Office 365 boost
- Microsoft competes with Apple with new Surface range
- Microsoft stiffs enterprises with massive price increases
- Microsoft: Lose $600m but it’s all good as cloud expands
- Trustmarque IT management deal at Virtual Lease Services
- Microsoft updates Windows 10 and Office 365
News Storage
- Help Your customers Save on DRAM and SSDs
- Spectra Logic Adds Hammer to EMEA Distribution Line-Up
- NetApp’s Backup As A Service Now Available In UK
- BigTec Targets S3 Object Storage Services with Cloudian
- No trimming of NetApp flash offerings after acquisition
- NetApp transforms to flash and hybrid cloud business
- Exertis acquires storage distribution specialist Hammer
- Beta Distribution ups SDS channel effort with FalconStor
- Vesper to drive StorPool SDS sales opportunities
- Scality pushes software defined storage through partners
News Jobs
- Cisco posts poor first quarter as staff cuts continue
- Webhelp now recruiting another 120 staff at Cardiff site
- Autotask is hiring after opening new Manchester office
- Webhelp recruits 170 contact centre staff in Yorkshire
- Atos reports ‘solid’ UK growth post Brexit
- HP Inc to slash up to 4,000 jobs from next year
- Fujitsu confirms 1,800 UK jobs cull next year
- IT pay in the North outstripping wages in the South
- Dell to axe ‘up to 3,000 jobs’ post-EMC buy
- Cisco axes another 5,500 on the back of good profits
News Procurement
- PGi awarded Scottish Government conferencing framework
- Civica wins contact centre deal at Hull ahead of a big year
- Pulsant deploys cloud solution at Scottish charity
- Sentis becomes IT partner to 50-strong hotel group
- NHS trusts ‘must act now’ as network deal ends
- Channelcentral expands presence into the US
- Streamwire says SMEs still face G-Cloud ‘uphill struggle’
- NG Bailey wins £50m Fujitsu MoD network contract
- Apogee wins place on national education print framework
- Newcastle City Council brings in S2Gov for IT analytics
News Appointments
- APC gives power to new UK channel head
- UKFast bolsters DevOps efforts with ex-Rackspace exec
- FireMon grabs Blue Coat man to head global channels
- Amelio takes throne permanently at Avnet
- Crayon draws in channel sales director to push cloud SAM
- Zyxel re-brands as a solution provider, hires channel head
- More senior hires at cloud UCaaS firm sipsynergy
- IoT solutions firm RF Code appoints channel head
- ForeScout seeks 100% channel target with FireMon hiring
- Veeam gets a new CEO for its data backup business
News Research
- Enterprises are refreshing networks sooner says DiData
- Firms struggle to use data analytics and many need help
- 40 percent of top IT support firms struggling financially
- Connected kitchen appliances drive IoT smart home takeup
- IT SMEs amass fortunes in business savings accounts
- VPA speaker market to reach $2.1bn says Gartner
- Security appliance market shows ‘positive’ growth
- Under a third of firms ‘confident’ about disaster recovery
- Solid growth in a declining market for PC monitors
- Staff ready to quit over ‘poor’ workplace technology
News Big Data
- Information Builders and Teradata Sign Global Reseller Agreement
- Aprimo pushes distributed channel marketing platform
- Commvault tackles rivals in data management space
- Hitachi Consulting wins IoT data deal with SW Water
- HPE acquires SGI for £212m to grow HPC and analytics
- Ascertus helps law firm sail to data compliance efficiency
- Data8 extends services contract at Rugby Football Union
- How OpenText’s go-to-market is being shaped by robots
- Dimension Data wheeled in for Tour de France big data
- MapR unveils global big data reseller programme
News Compliance
- Michael Page outsourcer Capgemini suffers data breach
- East Thames housing association ‘cloud first’ with iland
- BT, Dropbox, Google forced to change cloud storage terms
- Vodafone fined £4.6 million for customer billing disaster
- Software snitches don’t get stitches they get FAST payment
- IT consultant banned for eight years after not paying tax
- TalkTalk fined £400,000 for last year’s data breach
- Micro Focus acquires another American data firm
- ICO says GDPR will be in force before Brexit
- Actiance moves in on ‘stranded’ Autonomy users
News Distie
- Arrow BI Project To Demonstrate Power Of Data Analytics
- Vormetric targets greater security UK growth with Arrow
- Arrow aims for more VCE business by adding 9 countries
- Entatech brings Veracity video surveillance ‘to the masses’
- Spigraph becomes preferred distie for Lexmark in UK
- Kite flies banner for Positive Technologies security offering
- BigTec takes on Morpheus for cloud management push
- CTERA Networks targets UK providers with Arrow
- FireMon enters UK security market with Westcon
- Exclusive Networks makes security policy play with Tufin
News Legal
- Ingram Micro extends Chinese acquisition ‘end date’
- AlienVault VP takes firm to court over bog standard safety
- Software snitches don’t get stitches they get FAST payment
- ICO says GDPR will be in force before Brexit
- Sage employee arrested by police at Heathrow Airport
- Spectrum Vega+ console firm hits back in director bust-up
- Director fall-out at Spectrum games console company
- Amazon slammed by ASA for ‘misleading’ delivery charges
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise awarded £1.95m in ‘grey’ case
- Oracle to sue executive over cloud ‘false accounting’ claim
News Networking
- Teneo Launches SD-WAN Managed Service
- Five Channel Predictions for 2017
- Ingram Cradles wireless business networking market
- Extreme Networks captures Zebra WiFi business for $55m
- Utopia wins Array Networks UK distribution deal
- Zyxel re-brands as a solution provider, hires channel head
- Juniper Networks updates Partner Advantage Programme
- Updata wins NHS trust network and remote working deal
- Network Utilities unveils monitoring-as-a-service for SMEs
- Cisco opens Northern Powerhouse innovation centre
News Finance
- Managed Services Bolster ANS Profits
- How Software And Hardware On Finance Can Change The Channel
- IT finance firm Syscap hires new channels boss
- UKFast doubles space with £8 million Manchester property
- Rigby’s IT arm SCC sees stagnant sales for the year
- Maintel sees big jump in sales after Azzurri buy
- UKFast hails strong first half and targets £40m for year
- Apogee targets acquisitions after Equistone investment
- Arrow ups M&A plans with GCP investment
- Channelcentral expands presence into the US
News Results
- Northamber’s performance woes continue with bigger loss
- Apple iPhone and Mac sales down as group profits slump
- Computacenter reports ‘soft’ UK performance
- Microsoft: Lose $600m but it’s all good as cloud expands
- Atos reports ‘solid’ UK growth post Brexit
- Another failing quarter for IBM despite the cloud
- Outsourcer Capita posts first ever profits warning
- BlackBerry stops making smartphones, targets software
- Blancco looks for data erasure partners after jump in sales
- Retarus comms revenues driven by international growth
News Data Centre
- NetApp transforms to flash and hybrid cloud business
- CenturyLink sells its 57 data centres for $2.15 billion
- VMware warns channel digital transformation laggards
- VMware to strike surprise cloud partnership with Amazon
- Lenovo boosts partner offering to help recruit 5,000
- Continuum opens London BDR data centre for MSPs
- Blancco looks for data erasure partners after jump in sales
- Microsoft opens UK cloud data centres backed by MoD
- Former steel town Redcar to get £100m data centre
- The Bunker raises head on cloud services partner strategy
News Public Sector
- Local Authorities Increase Spend on Technology
- Insight Announces Darren Hedley As New Head Of Public Sector
- Derby City Council hires Maintel to manage contact centre
- PGi awarded Scottish Government conferencing framework
- National Outsourcing Association calls it a day
- Over half of public sector considers using robots
- Enfield council supports digital transformation with Civica
- XMA wins Stockport council data centre deal with Nutanix
- North Lanarkshire Council joins Scottish Wide Area Network
- Proact wins infrastructure deal at Swedish government agency
News Smartphones
- Apple Takes Smartphone Top Spot from Samsung
- Smartphone virtual reality faces challenges despite sales
- Brits own £2.3bn worth of unused gadgets
- Apple iPhone 7 models already sell out
- Microsoft’s Lumia smartphones will be dead by xmas
- Samsung may deactivate unreturned Note 7 smartphones
- Rumour mill keeps grinding over new iPhone 7
- Apple smartphone sales to end users dive globally
- Samsung is beating Apple in UK phone market says vendor
- BlackBerry unveils second Android smartphone
News Printers
- Shift Towards Multifunction Hardware Accelerates Across Western Europe
- Smart Printing Yet to Find Foothold in Public Sector
- Dealing in Grey? It May Lead to Jail Time…
- OKI Targets IT Channel With Tech Data Signing
- Kyocera Acquires Managed Print Firm Annodata
- OKI offers partners half-price printers to test and sell
- Apogee’s Hibernian takeover gives it firmer Irish foothold
- Brother widens channels for AutoID with new unit head
- Canon launches print apprentice scheme with its partners
- ‘We were wrong’ admits HP on third party print cartridges
News Networks
- Enterprises are refreshing networks sooner says DiData
- Broadcom acquires Brocade for $5.5bn and offloads Ruckus
- Extreme Networks completes Zebra WLAN unit acquisition
- No drag on Orange contract extension with Philip Morris
- Nokia appoints Zycko as first pan-European VAD
- Fourteen IP checks into the US with ServiceMax
- CommScope integrates network partner programmes
- NG Bailey wins £50m Fujitsu MoD network contract
- Sales are up 40 percent at Huawei for half year
- Telecoms testing firm P3 in global expansion
News Mobile
- How the channel can embrace the mobile opportunity
- Samsung to sell refurbished smartphones to boost sales
- Mobile phone dealer given 11yr director ban for £2m fraud
- Cyber adAPT supports ELITE mobile security partners
- Samsung Galaxy Note 7 targets phablet growth
- Tech Data unveils mobile-optimised sales site
- Mobilise Consulting expands into Spanish market
- BlackBerry still committed to BB10 OS and real keyboards
- Capita wins £140m Tesco Mobile customer service deal
- AVR wins mobile device management deal with Volks
News Education
- How Channel Firms Can Get Top Marks in The Education Sector
- ANSecurity tells a good WiFi tale at Canterbury College
- Imerja helps develop university’s computer course
- London college deploys ‘humanoid’ robot for learning
- Manchester Grammar School makes data leap with LIMA
- iboss joins the Jisc security services education framework
- Apogee wins place on national education print framework
- Comtact wins place on Jisc education security framework
- Raspberry maker sold to Swiss firm for £700m
- BBC micro:bit now available from disties and resellers
News IoT
- Avnet and IBM Open Doors to IoT Lab
- Avnet Brings Together Specialists to Guide Channel on IoT
- UK Channel Reports Strong IoT Sales
- Connected kitchen appliances drive IoT smart home takeup
- Comms365 unveils M2M and IoT channel programme
- Channel chomps on Bamboo’s M2M/IoT wholesale offering
- Hitachi Consulting wins IoT data deal with SW Water
- Telenor Connexion expands channel for IoT solutions
- IoT solutions firm RF Code appoints channel head
- UK’s BullGuard acquires Israeli-based IoT security startup
News Services
- RedstoneConnect acquires IT services firm Commensus
- jClarity Java optimisation services find home at Rightmove
- Computacenter reports ‘soft’ UK performance
- Rigby’s IT arm SCC sees stagnant sales for the year
- Fourteen IP checks into the US with ServiceMax
- ECS acquires DevOps firm Forest Technologies
- MSP Claranet to offer DRaaS through Zerto deal
- Ascertus helps law firm sail to data compliance efficiency
- Data8 extends services contract at Rugby Football Union
- Capita wins IT services deal to support NI enterprise youth
News Software
- UK SMBs Hit With £900,000 in Fines for Using Unlicensed Software
- Half of Businesses Still Running Unsupported Windows XP
- FAST Urges SAM Providers To Blow Whistle On Illegal Software
- Bye Bye, Legacy BI: Convincing Customers To Ditch Their Legacy Systems
- Optimising Software Licensing in The Time Of Brexit
- Vuzion Adds Avepoint to Office 365 Cloud Portfolio
- Is 3-tier technology dead?
- Sage Settling Into Enterprise With New Partner Signings
- Citrix Fills Gap in Portfolio with Unidesk Acquisition
- Blue Medora Appoints Sales Director To Head Up EMEA Expansion
News Online
- Tech Data targets more resellers with tailored webstore
- jClarity Java optimisation services find home at Rightmove
- Ocado sells smart home products alongside food
- Registrations for .cloud domain already hit 71,000
- Currys slammed for miss-selling HP Envy laptops
- HP says it won’t honour £1.58 laptop orders
- Tech Data unveils mobile-optimised sales site
- Electronics are more expensive online at the weekend
- Syscap unveils better online IT financing technology
- UK hosting giant 123 Reg ‘deletes’ customer sites
News Apple
- Apple iPhone and Mac sales down as group profits slump
- Smartwatch market plummets in the third quarter
- Apple signs global business partner deal with Deloitte
- Apple iPhone 7 models already sell out
- More iPhone user insurance claims than Samsung ones
- Rumour mill keeps grinding over new iPhone 7
- Apple smartphone sales to end users dive globally
- CWSI and Compu b join forces in Apple enterprise business
- Apple hit by big App Store, iCloud outage
- Apple revenues and profits slump, suppliers impacted
News Analytics
- Firms struggle to use data analytics and many need help
- Commvault tackles rivals in data management space
- Actiance moves in on ‘stranded’ Autonomy users
- Salesforce acquires cloud analytics startup BeyondCore
- Qstream hires another nine partners to sell sales platform
- OpenText expands partner programme as products evolve
- Newcastle City Council brings in S2Gov for IT analytics
- Dimension Data wheeled in for Tour de France big data
- MapR unveils global big data reseller programme
- Another faltering quarter for IBM despite more cloud and analytics revenue
News Recall
- IDC: Samsung moving out of the dark Note 7 woods
- Webcams used in last week’s web attacks are recalled
- Fire sale: Samsung offers cash incentives to return Note 7
- The battle to restore Samsung’s reputation starts now
- Samsung stops fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 production
- Plane evacuated after replacement Samsung Note 7 fire
- Samsung Note 7: US regulators order 1m phones recall
- Samsung may deactivate unreturned Note 7 smartphones
- Samsung Note 7 recall: UK exchange programme now open
- Apple glee as Samsung halts Note 7 sales after battery fires
News Business Continuity
- M&A Poses Risk To Business Continuity Market
- East Thames housing association ‘cloud first’ with iland
- Acronis extends business continuity deal with distie intY
- Clouditalia latest service provider to offer Rubrik backup
- Major tech firms join forces for ‘zero outage’ standard
- Veeam pokes channel stick at Commvault at VMworld
- Acronis takes new distribution head from Acer
- A hurricane’s coming! – Commvault activates GO DR plan
- Commvault smoothes backup with software-defined
- Under a third of firms ‘confident’ about disaster recovery
News Training
- Disaster recovery firm Zerto enhances partner offer
- Cloud Industry Forum offers cloud sales training to channel
- Cloud Industry Forum launches cloud skills training
- Talend latest firm to back open source training network in France
- Veeam improves support for resellers and integrators
- European standard for ICT professionals launched
- Firms want digital skills but aren’t investing in them says Barclays
- Spectromax Scotland to recruit over 300 for IT projects
- CompTIA replaces channel best practice standards
- National Apprenticeship Week: CompTIA unveils IT apprenticeship portal
News Applications
- Oracle issues 136 patches to address major security threats
- Opera releases desktop browser with free built-in VPN
- Sigma wins first Dell distribution deal for systems and info management
- CMS becomes AVG Business security software distributor
- Spectromax Scotland to recruit over 300 for IT projects
- Micro Focus makes big DevOps play with $540m Serena acquisition
- GoDaddy launches cloud servers and cloud applications
- IBM acquires UK’s Optevia to boost cloud CRM consultancy
- ExtraHop boasts channel progress for IT analytics offering
- NetApp offers free flash storage channel consultancy support
News Outsourcing
- Fujitsu confirms 1,800 UK jobs cull next year
- National Outsourcing Association calls it a day
- Equiniti buys Toplevel to boost digital transformation offer
- Trustmarque wins big IT management deal at learndirect
- CIOs complain of increasing IT support burden
- Outsourcery enjoys legal action at Keoghs with Skype
- Civica acquires IPL to boost digital transformation offering
- Debenhams extends customer support deal with Capita
- Redcentric upbeat about impending full year results
- Government ICT visa reforms ‘bring fairness’ to UK contractor market
News Broadband
- Broadband providers under cosh of new ad rules next week
- Luminet bolsters channel offering with Fibre Air
- Exponential-e partners with Midshire in education market
- Channel called to back Fix Britain’s Internet campaign
- Ultra-fast broadband creates sales jamboree for resellers
- Virgin Media names 10 areas for FTTP broadband
- BT’s £6bn ultrafast broadband roll-out will connect 12m to G.Fast or FTTP
- ‘Boro and Belfast have faster broadband than London, Hull bottom
- Hyperoptic starts FTTP broadband services in Brighton
- Virgin Media Business goes indirect, signs first two disties
News Government
- G-Cloud 9 Launches As Tony Singleton Leaves Civil Service
- Most public sector IT execs give G-Cloud a wide berth
- Government wants smaller IT suppliers with new standard
- Civica acquires SFW to aid digital transformation offering
- Privacy Shield is ‘not robust enough’ says EU watchdog
- North Lanarkshire Council joins Scottish Wide Area Network
- Government shared services ‘not working’ says NAO
- Government’s GDS gets ready for 2030 digital revolution
- G-Cloud 8 open for business next month, hint of G-Cloud 9 shakeup
- Cloud Expo: Vaizey says it’s time to embrace technological change
News Samsung
- IDC: Samsung moving out of the dark Note 7 woods
- Fire sale: Samsung offers cash incentives to return Note 7
- The battle to restore Samsung’s reputation starts now
- Samsung stops fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 production
- Plane evacuated after replacement Samsung Note 7 fire
- Samsung Note 7: US regulators order 1m phones recall
- HP Inc buys Samsung’s printer business for $1bn
- Samsung Note 7 recall: UK exchange programme now open
- Apple glee as Samsung halts Note 7 sales after battery fires
- Samsung to sell refurbished smartphones to boost sales
News Hybrid Cloud
- Dell EMC seeks to power change with hybrid clouds
- VMware trumpets partner opportunities from cloud
- Proact wins NHS Lanarkshire cloud patient deal
- VMware and AWS confirm big cloud friendship
- IBM gets in retaliation before VMware flips to AWS
- UKFast doubles space with £8 million Manchester property
- Pulsant deploys cloud solution at Scottish charity
- Arrow and Equinix partner with NetApp for hybrid cloud
- Ensono acquires UK hybrid cloud MSP Attenda
- Hybrid clouds are king confirms IBM research
News Collaboration
- Exponential-e and SproutIT offer hosted voice to legal firms
- TelcoSwitch signs up KSD Communications as new reseller
- Interact helps National Housing Federation improve comms
- RingCentral expands professional services with partners
- Dropbox’s Project Infinite makes it easier to store and access business files
- Microsoft Surface Hub AV solution starts shipping
- Hosted Desktop UK moves to The Bunker to support cloud customers
- Partner relationship management takes off for Relayware
- Google is finally ready to open source its data centre infrastructure
- Anoto signs first distribution deal with Ingram Micro
News MSP
- ConnectWise Commits to European Expansion
- Kaspersky Lab Adds Managed Services to New Partner Programme
- Kaseya Turnaround Continues With European Investment
- MSP Redcentric engulfed in financial reporting scandal
- MSP Claranet to offer DRaaS through Zerto deal
- SUSE expands Linux reseller programme to MSPs
- Claranet ups ante in acquisition game with Ardenta buy
- MSPs expect high growth but they ‘fear’ the cloud
- Apogee to supply managed services to J Murphy & Sons
News BlackBerry
- BlackBerry launches its third Android-based smartphone
- BlackBerry stops making smartphones, targets software
- BlackBerry unveils second Android smartphone
- BlackBerry considers phone bail-out as losses grow
- Struggling smartphone makers take blow from PayPal
- BlackBerry improves solution provider partner programme
- BlackBerry is ‘ditching’ premium smartphones for mid-range devices
- BlackBerry brings crisis data comms service to Europe
- BlackBerry brings in Exclusive Networks to boost its enterprise software business
News Partners
- InfoVista’s partner offering to drive software defined WANs
- Parallels doesn’t draw line on new partner benefits for RAS
- Partner activity scoring offered by PRM player Relayware
- VMware trumpets partner opportunities from cloud
- Pulse Secure trumpets channel progress since Juniper exit
- SUSE unveils new open source partner programme
- HP Inc overhauls Partner First Programme
- Axis and Canon change selling strategy for network video
- Dell spreads the flavour with PartnerDirect overhaul
News Comms
- Mobilise Consulting expands into Spanish market
- Retarus comms revenues driven by international growth
- KCOM builds railways’ cloud ticketing and revenue system
- Calix extends partner broadband service provider scheme
- Ageas Retail signs contact centre deal with Sinclair Voicenet
- Interact helps National Housing Federation improve comms
- CityFibre signs service provider contracts worth £7m
- TelcoSwitch wants more UC channel partners to support UK entry
News Amazon
- VMware and AWS confirm big cloud friendship
- VMware to strike surprise cloud partnership with Amazon
- BT connects HR group Randstad through global cloud
- VPA speaker market to reach $2.1bn says Gartner
- Cloud Technology Partners opens UK operation
- Oracle’s Ellison comes out fighting against Amazon’s cloud
- Amazon drone tests approved by UK government
- Amazon begins drone delivery testing in Cambridge
News Oracle
- Oracle struggling to buy NetSuite as shareholders cling on
- UKFast wins new Oracle and Sage hosting business
- Arrow joins forces with Oracle to push cloud channel sales
- Oracle ‘low code’ allows partners to develop their own apps
- Oracle’s Ellison comes out fighting against Amazon’s cloud
- Oracle Platinum Partner Inoapps unveils ‘change’ practice
- Oracle plans business separation after $9.3bn NetSuite buy
- Funding Round: Rimini promises wider Oracle/SAP support
News Dell/EMC
- Dell EMC Reveals Channel Partners’ Status
- Dell EMC seeks to power change with hybrid clouds
- Dell EMC World leaving Austin for Las Vegas
- Dell to axe ‘up to 3,000 jobs’ post-EMC buy
- Will Dell’s completed EMC acquisition reap the benefits?
- Flat sales for Dell ahead of the EMC merger
- EMC’s VCE is moving into the heart of London’s Tech City
- Dell warns of PC business decline ahead of EMC acquisition
News Unified Comms
- On-Premise or Cloud Communications? Forget the Platform, It’s All About The Customer
- Nimans Reveals ‘Logistics Engine’ Ambition With UC Launch
- ScanSource Eyes Cloud Telephony Market with NFON Agreement
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News IBM
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- Another failing quarter for IBM despite the cloud
- IBM gets in retaliation before VMware flips to AWS
- IBM looks to take advantage of Dell EMC ‘disruption’
- IBM hires 30,000 staff as non-cloud workers are axed
- Cloud growth but group profits fall 30% at IBM
- IBM updates DB2 with greater cloud integration
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- Microsoft Office rival OpenOffice ‘could be retired’
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- Open source jobs boom continues worldwide
- OpenStack ‘maturing’ as two thirds of deployments now in production
- Alfresco wants 70% of its ECM and BPM sales through the channel
News ERP
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- SAP ups channel sales focus with Cloud Choice profit model
- Faltering Avnet replaces CEO with former Lenovo chief
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- Avocor adds Swedish AV mounting systems to portfolio
- Midwich offers channel £30m credit for SMART AV offerings
- Nureva audio visual business goes to new company Avocor
- Logitech boosts video collaboration effort with 15 partners
News Brexit
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- Over two-thirds of SMEs have no finance fears over Brexit
- Most UK SMEs feel ‘no impact’ from Brexit says Close
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