News

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

• September 06, 2013 06 Sep'13

  iomart forks out £8m for datacentre firm Redstation

  Acquisitive Scottish cloud outfit heads south to buy Hants-based datacentre operation Redstation for £8m

• September 05, 2013 05 Sep'13

  Brocade locks in Lipsin to run global channel

  Datacentre networking specialist Brocade taps former Arbor Networks channel boss Bill Lipsin to take charge of channel, system integrator sales

• September 02, 2013 02 Sep'13

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 30 August 2013

  IaaS data shows Amazon Web Services out in front, Arrow guzzles Computerlinks, and Ballmer calls it quits. Catch up on the biggest channel news stories from the past seven days

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  Nutanix adds Microsoft Hyper-V support to platform

  “SAN-free” datacentre specialist celebrates VMworld 2013 by getting cosy with Microsoft, offering new support possibilities to the channel

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  Microsoft, Google, IBM far behind AWS in IaaS, PaaS segments, data shows

  IT heavyweights including Microsoft, Google and IBM are playing catch up with Amazon Web Services in the IaaS and PaaS segments

• August 22, 2013 22 Aug'13

  Avaya reveals software-defined datacentre vision

  Avaya sets out its software-defined datacentre stall ahead of VMworld 2013 in San Francisco

• August 13, 2013 13 Aug'13

  Bootcamp set up to attract graduates to datacentres

  Datacentre industry moves to address looming skills shortage as IT workforce ages rapidly

• July 23, 2013 23 Jul'13

  UKFast CEO Jones pumps £4.5m into grad recruitment

  Creation of 50 new jobs at UKFast’s Manchester base helps address graduate unemployment problem and helps cloud hosting outfit beat growth targets

• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  IT services market on course for decent growth

  An analysis of the UK IT services market by Ovum show that in the first five months of this year there was a healthy volume of business

• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  MicroScope's top stories, week ending 19 July 2013

  Adopting cloud could make midsized businesses more competitive; Computacenter UK sitting pretty; and Avnet and Arrow land IBM training role, in our regular look back at last week's big stories

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  Nutanix launches worldwide reseller programme

  Datacentre infrastructure business formalises worldwide channel engagement to take advantage of continuing cloud and virtualisation growth

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  Microsoft realigns partner cloud training, competencies

  At its Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston Texas, Microsoft has shared details of how it will change training and competencies to help partners make the most of the cloud

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  Microsoft rallies partners to build hybrid Azure

  At Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston, Texas, Microsoft announces a major push to attract businesses to use Azure through a “cloud first” strategy

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  UKFast strikes in M&A campaign with BurstNET UK buy

  Just days after appointing an M&A director cloud specialist UKFast has snapped up the British arm of US hosted specialist BurstNET for an undisclosed sum

• June 20, 2013 20 Jun'13

  SMEs making moves to adopt cloud email services

  The latest Spiceworks survey of the cloud market has revealed more SMEs are planning to use hosted email and file-sharing services