January 2013

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  BETT wrestles with BYOD in action

  One of the major challenges facing schools is to deal with the rising number of pupils that want to use hardware in a more flexible way  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Download: IT Services Purchase Intentions 2013

  This survey of over 130 European IT professionals from MicroScope and TechTarget examines company’s IT service purchase plans for cloud, security & compliance, enterprise applications, data center services, storage & disaster recovery.  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Dell to shake-up server distribution channel

  Dell has indicated that it plans to shake up its server distribution channel as it looks to grab a larger slice of the market  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Dell tipped to plough $1bn into buyout deal

  Michael Dell is tipped to invest up to $1bn of his personal fortune into the proposed buy out of Dell to ensure he retains majority control of the PC maker if it goes private  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Storage roundtable part II: Cloud growth continues

  In the second part of our coverage of MicroScope's storage roundtable we discuss cloud and just what technologies are coming next  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  SSD market consolidation expected

  The SSD market is expected to undergo some shrinkage as consolidation starts to whittle down the current large number of players in the market  Continue Reading

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Sage centralises European mid-market efforts

  Sage is introducing a single European wide mid-market focused organisation to grow business in that segment in a move that replaces the current country-led efforts  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  Storage roundtable part I: Watch out for DAS and SSD

  In the first of a two part storage roundtable MicroScope gathers views from leading vendors in reaction to research indicating just where customers are spending  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  Channel suitors pursue stricken 2e2 businesses

  Administrators say a number of potential buyers for some or all of 2e2's businesses have already stepped forward  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  EMC expects customers will start spending again

  EMC has given a cautiously optimistic forecast for 2013 as it expects some frozen IT spending to be thawed as customers invest in cloud and big data  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  CIF transparency message getting through

  The Cloud Industry Forum's call for transparency from resellers pitching hosted managed services is getting through to both channel and customers  Continue Reading

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  Avaya retains Imago's Radvision contract

  Specialist video distie Imago has revealed Avaya has renewed its contract to sell Radvision's Scopia products  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  Cloud Distribution sinks claws into Talon

  Cloud Distribution has signed an exclusive UK distie partnership with next-gen storage and application delivery software firm Talon  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  Cloud channel reaching maturity

  Research from the Cloud Industry Forum in partnership with IBM has revealed that those resellers selling cloud have not grown much in the last two years as the market matures  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  VMware cuts staff to boost bottom line

  VMware is to lay off 900 staff, mostly in non-core functions, as the virtualisation giant seeks to breathe new life into flat profits  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  Low end tablets enjoy solid end of year

  Figures from Context showing which tablets sold through distribution has revealed a strong end of the year for Apple, Blackberry and Samsung.  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  C2000 adds McAfee to software distribution service

  McAfee has become to latest vendor to be added to Computer 2000’s online electronic software distribution service, TD Activate-here  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  IBM ramps up social tools

  IBM has increased the number of social media tools in its portfolio as it looks to dominate a market that analysts expect will be worth billions  Continue Reading

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  2e2 calls in the administrators

  Despite a last-ditch management reshuffle, integrator 2e2 has become the first channel casualty of 2013 after calling in administrators FTI Consulting on Monday 28 January  Continue Reading

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Phoenix claims UK first with cloud-to-cloud backup service

  Phoenix IT Group has launched the UK’s first cloud-to-cloud backup service to the local market, targeting Salesforce customers  Continue Reading