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Managed IT Services
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December 19, 2012
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Dec'12
Oracle Q2 revenues rise 3%
IT giant Oracle has posted a modest increase in sales of 3% to $9.1bn (£5.6bn) for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2013, compared with the same quarter the year before
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December 19, 2012
19
Dec'12
Colt shares intel on transformation programme
Networking, comms and cloud provider Colt Group has shared more details of a new programme to accelerate the transformation of its business
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December 17, 2012
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Dec'12
Claranet buys French Typhon to realise continental ambition
MSP Claranet has forked out £3.4m to acquire Paris-based hosting company Typhon as it seeks to expand its horizons on the other side of the Channel
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December 17, 2012
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Dec'12
MicroScope's top stories, week ending 14 December 2012
Our regular look back at the most important channel news stories from the past seven days
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December 13, 2012
13
Dec'12
Micro-P raids Azlan for network, comms talent
Micro-P has appointed Azlan’s HP Networking business manager Gavin O’Shea as its new general manager of networking and communications
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December 13, 2012
13
Dec'12
Cloud specialist steps into CEO role at CA
CA Technologies has concluded a six month search for a replacement for its outgoing CEO turning to a man with experience in the cloud
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December 12, 2012
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Dec'12
Service market deals hit lowest value for nine years
The value of IT service contracts has fallen to its lowest level for nine years as both public and private sector activity dries up in the face of ongoing tough economic conditions
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December 12, 2012
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Dec'12
HP launches managed network channel programme
HP has added a new partner programme to its line-up, targeting a select few comms services providers looking to offer pay-as-you-go managed networks for their end-user customers
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December 11, 2012
11
Dec'12
Public sector looking for more nimble supply options
Public sector customers are going to look more often at suppliers that can help them keep costs and under control and deliver IT projects on time according to IDC
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December 11, 2012
11
Dec'12
Redstone celebrates first ever pre-tax profit
Despite a slip in revenues, managed network services provider Redstone booked its first ever profit before taxation of £200,000 in the six months to the end of September, reversing a loss of £1.5m in the year-ago period
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December 10, 2012
10
Dec'12
ACS swallows Serco education unit
Advanced Computer Software (ACS) has picked up outsourcer Serco’s education unit, Serco Learning, for £7.25m in a deal that will add around £13.5m to the rapidly expanding firm’s top line
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December 10, 2012
10
Dec'12
C2000 looks for services growth
Computer 2000 is looking to grow the bespoke services it can offer vendors and resellers to take advantage of the logistics and support capabilities it has developed
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December 10, 2012
10
Dec'12
MicroScope's top stories, week ending 7 December 2012
Our regular look back at some of the most widely read channel news stories from the past seven days
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December 06, 2012
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Dec'12
Magirus, Avnet TS first to claim VSPEX assembly badge in EMEA
Magirus, and by extension its new owner Avnet Technology Solutions (ATS), has become the first European distie to bag the EMC VSPEX Assembly Services Capability badge
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December 04, 2012
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Dec'12
Phoenix covets more enterprise contracts in second half
Phoenix IT Group management has been talking about its projected strategic direction during the second half of its financial year and says it is already reporting growing success in major accounts
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December 03, 2012
03
Dec'12
ComputerLinks signs up Globo
ComputerLinks has become the distribution partner for mobile application and SaaS specialist Globo as it continues to widen the product options it offers resellers
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December 03, 2012
03
Dec'12
MicroScope's top stories, week ending 30 November 2012
Our regular look back at the biggest channel news stories from the past seven days
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November 30, 2012
30
Nov'12
ISVs turning to managed services players in cloud moves
Managed service specialists could make ideal partners for ISVs looking to get their software into the cloud
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November 29, 2012
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Nov'12
Servo account fiddle dates back to 2009
Integrator Phoenix IT Group has revealed that the profits at its midmarket services business Servo were deliberately manipulated over a lengthy period going back to 31 March 2009
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November 28, 2012
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Nov'12
Cisco merges cloud, managed services reseller programmes
Cisco has merged its channel Cloud Provider and Cloud Services Reseller roles with its Managed Services Channel Programme to form a single Cloud and Managed Services Programme
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November 28, 2012
28
Nov'12
SMEs lacking the skills to move to secure cloud
Smaller customers lack the skills to make the move to a secure cloud environment and will have to rely on channel partners to take further steps to a hosted environment
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November 27, 2012
27
Nov'12
ANS half-year numbers reflect growth trajectory
Datacentre and cloud services specialist ANS Group has announced a 13% uptick in its six monthly sales figures to 30 September, with revenues hitting £20.3m and net operating profit up 18% to £1.3m
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November 27, 2012
27
Nov'12
Softcat to add 40 technical heads to support 2013 growth
Integrator Softcat has announced plans to double the size of its technical team to support its growth and development amid plans to meet and exceed this year’s turnover of £300m plus in 2013
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November 26, 2012
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Redstone Maxima combo targets midmarket managed services growth
Redstone’s new management has been setting out plans to target more midmarket managed services business following its acquisition of Maxima, and has already reported some success
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November 26, 2012
26
Nov'12
UK SME cloud market heading for £2bn revenue
The UK SME market continues to invest in cloud computing with the latest resarch into the market from Parallels indicating its just a few years away from being a £2bn market
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November 26, 2012
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 23 November 2012
Our regular look back at the most read stories on MicroScope.co.uk from the past seven days
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November 23, 2012
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Claranet buys Star to build £120m MSP
Internet service provider turned managed services specialist Claranet has forked out £55m to acquire managed technology services outfit Star with the intent of building a £120m MSP business in Europe
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November 23, 2012
23
Nov'12
SCC claims first healthcare cloud in Merseyside
Integrator SCC has signed the UK’s first healthcare cloud deal to deliver secure datacentre services to Mersey Care NHS Trust through 2017
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November 23, 2012
23
Nov'12
Changing culture key to unlocking managed services
A managed services specialist that has made the journey from break-fix urges others considering a similar journey to appreciate the internal challenges
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November 23, 2012
23
Nov'12
Vendor cloud recommendations not opening SME doors
A good word from a vendor is not going to get small companies rushing into the arms of resellers as MicroScope research reveals that the channel has to develop its own story
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November 22, 2012
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Nov'12
SMEs looking for simple steps on cloud journey
Small customers want to move to the cloud starting with proven technology that will inspire confidence about the hosted model
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November 21, 2012
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Nov'12
Cost and complexity fears hold back cloud adoption
MicroScope research of the SME customer base has found security, cost and complexity fears are holding back wider cloud adoption
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November 21, 2012
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Nov'12
AVG exceeds reseller cloud ambitions
AVG has signed up three times as many resellers as it aimed for to sell its CloudCare platform
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November 20, 2012
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Nov'12
Comstor to offer Cisco, NetApp ExpressPod to SME market
Westcon Group’s Cisco specialist unit, Comstor, has added Cisco and NetApp’s latest cloud platform, ExpressPod, to its channel line-up to help partners break into the SME cloud market
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November 20, 2012
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Nov'12
SME cloud opportunity still sizeable
A decent chunk of the SME market has yet to embrace the cloud, leaving the door open for resellers
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November 19, 2012
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Nov'12
Cisco makes cloud moves with Meraki buy
Cisco has splashed out $1.2bn to acquire cloud networking start-up Meraki as it looks to expand the hosted support it can deliver to the market
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November 16, 2012
16
Nov'12
Dell profits collapse as PC spend dries up
Dell’s net profits have almost halved after another dismal quarter in the PC sector, slumping 47% to $475m (£300m) on sales of $13.7bn, down 11% on the year-ago quarter
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November 15, 2012
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Nov'12
Gartner: IT enterprise spend will grow if fiscal cliff is avoided
Gartner has said that enterprise IT spending will return to meaningful growth in 2013 as long as the United States and Eurozone economies manage to avoid any more disasters
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November 15, 2012
15
Nov'12
Check Point takes wraps off managed services offering
Check Point has launched a managed services offering to be sold via channel partners that can deliver both a monitoring service and a specific incident response feature
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November 14, 2012
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Nov'12
Cisco CEO: Europe not yet at rock bottom
Cisco CEO John Chambers has told analysts that the European market has a way to go before it begins to turn around, after regional revenues in the first quarter of Cisco’s fiscal 2013 declined by 10%
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November 12, 2012
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Nov'12
Maxima man named as new Redstone MD
Redstone has named Maxima boss Fraser Fisher as its new managing director following the closure of its £13.8m acquisition of the troubled managed services provider
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November 12, 2012
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 9 November 2012
Our regular look back at the most widely-read channel news stories from the past seven days
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November 07, 2012
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Imago, Vidyo team up to offer VAR cloud video service
Video solutions VAD Imago Group says it has become the first European hosted video distributor after signing a new compact with telepresence software specialist Vidyo
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November 07, 2012
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Vendors undermining reseller services ambitions
Brocade has found that its partners services ambitions are being undermined by the general failing by most vendors to provide innovative and flexible solutions
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November 06, 2012
06
Nov'12
VMware users urged to apply security patches as ESX source code leaks online
VMware has confirmed that the source code for its enterprise-level virtualisation platform – ESX hypervisor – has been leaked online and is urging users to apply security patches
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November 05, 2012
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Nov'12
Brocade adds Vyatta to software networking offer
Brocade has forked out an undisclosed sum to acquire US-based network software expert Vyatta
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November 05, 2012
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Nov'12
Embotics expands distribution line-up
Cloud management specialist Embotics has added a couple of distributors to its channel line-up as it looks to increase the business generated by resellers in the UK and Benelux
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November 05, 2012
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 2 November 2012
Our regular look back at the most important channel news stories from the past seven days
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November 01, 2012
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EMC tempts VARs to make service provider transition
EMC has refurbished its cloud-centric Velocity Service Provider Programme, announcing a new scheme that will enable VARs to make the leap up from its Solution Provider community
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October 31, 2012
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Oct'12
Emulex launches new channel promotions
Converged networking vendor Emulex is launching a number of channel promotions to bolster sales of its datacentre and cloud infrastructure performance-boosting kit
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October 30, 2012
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Oct'12
Nexus reverses into MSP Enables in £4.25m deal
Specialist managed services provider Nexus Management Plc is to reverse into virtualisation, network and support services specialist Enables for a consideration of £4.25m
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October 30, 2012
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Oct'12
Avnet TS reshuffle sees new services role for Magirus
Avnet Technology Solutions has shuffled the deck in the wake of its acquisition of Magirus, handing the role of EMEA services veep to the firm’s eponymous COO Christian Magirus
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October 29, 2012
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 26 October 2012
Our regular look back at the most popular ICT channel news stories from the past week
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October 26, 2012
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NetSuite blasts laggard ERP rivals as sales climb again
Cloud ERP specialist NetSuite has hit out at slow-moving competitors after booking record quarterly sales and releasing a new next-generation range of commerce software solutions in the UK
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October 26, 2012
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Oct'12
Government launches next phase of G-Cloud project
The second phase of the G-Cloud project has gone live with hundreds of new suppliers, including a substantial number of resellers, named to the public sector cloud buying programme
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October 25, 2012
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Oct'12
Ingram Micro ready to roll with Microsoft SPLA programme
Ingram Micro has formally launched Microsoft’s Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA) to the channel, two months after being handed the role of distributor
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October 25, 2012
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Oct'12
Acquisition, development costs hit Colt Group profits
Colt Group has booked a 3.2% decline in its EBITDA after its acquisitions of MarketPrizm and ThinkGrid and associated product development costs
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October 24, 2012
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Oct'12
VMware profits dip as expenses rack up
Although it booked growth across the board in licence and services revenues, VMware’s profits failed to keep pace with the runaway growth in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure in Q3
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October 24, 2012
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Datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016, predicts Cisco
Global datacentre traffic will grow four times by 2016 to reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually, Cisco Systems’ Global Cloud Index has forecast
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October 23, 2012
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Oct'12
Trustmarque signs up Comms-care to polish services delivery
VAR heavyweight Trustmarque has inked a new deal with channel support services specialist Comms-care to enhance its technology services proposition
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October 22, 2012
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BT highlights cloud momentum
BT and Ovum has revealed that there is a swing in favour of cloud computing thanks to buying patterns changing with networking and IT coming under the same roof
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October 22, 2012
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 19 October 2012
Our regular look back at the most popular ICT channel news stories from the past week
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October 19, 2012
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BT iNet ramps up headcount
BT iNet, the network services arm of BT, has embarked on a recruitment drive to bolster it's sales of cloud technologies to customers
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October 18, 2012
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Redstone gives Cambridge dedicated cloud
Redstone has extended the cloud support it gives the City of Cambridge giving the university town a business network that spans across the town
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October 18, 2012
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Ancoris ramps up Google app support
Just a week after its acquisition of Cloud Skills Ancoris has released an overhauled version of the online resource designed to support organisations that use Google apps
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October 18, 2012
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Oct'12
Cisco and Citrix close in on mobile cloud
Citrix and Cisco are looking to build on their technology relationship to ensure they can improve the options for cloud computing users
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October 15, 2012
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Citrix resellers predicting 'workshifting' opportunities
Citrix resellers are expecting the growth in mobility will provide them with plenty of opportunities to provide the support required for BYOD environments
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October 15, 2012
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 12 October
MicroScope's top stories week ending 12 October
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October 12, 2012
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UK and services shine for Computacenter
A strong performance in the UK and growth in services revenues helped Computacenter turn in good numbers for its third fiscal quarter
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October 12, 2012
12
Oct'12
AVG rolls out CloudCare to support security MSPs
AVG has launched its CloudCare service in the UK for resellers looking to provide security as part of a managed service to the SME customer base
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October 11, 2012
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Government Digital Service hands SCC G-Cloud hosting contract
SCC has revealed it has been awarded the G-Cloud services contract to provide the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) with hosting solutions and services
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October 10, 2012
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Oct'12
Enterprise purchasing programme latest VMware wheeze
On the second day of VMworld Europe 2012 in Barcelona, host VMware has announced the introduction of a token-based enterprise purchasing programme (EPP) to increase software licence sales
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October 10, 2012
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Oct'12
IBM growth plans will see channel activity rise
As it looks to hit ambitious growth plans by 2015 IBM will see the share of its indirect business rise as it looks for more growth from its reseller base
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October 09, 2012
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Oct'12
VMworld Europe: VMware eases VAR rebate requirement on new business
VMware has almost halved the size of the deal value that partners need to achieve with new customers to earn an extra 10% rebate at VMworld Europe 2012 in Barcelona.
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October 09, 2012
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VMworld Europe: VMware hires Microsoft man to run UK
On the opening day of VMworld Europe 2012, in Barcelona Tuesday, VMware has named former Microsoft staffer David Parry-Jones as its new regional director for the UK and Ireland
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October 09, 2012
09
Oct'12
VMworld Europe: Colt adds backup, disaster recovery services to vCloud
Cloud and network provider Colt Technology Services has added backup and disaster recovery services to its vCloud services platform in response to channel and customer demand
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October 09, 2012
09
Oct'12
Resellers growing but distribution flat in first half
The latest picture of the state of the channel shared by Canalys at its channel forum in Barcelona has revealed that resellers are growing revenues despite the tough economic conditions
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October 08, 2012
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 5 October 2012
Our regular look back at the most read content on MicroScope.co.uk from the past week
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October 04, 2012
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Phoenix IT boss Courtley resigns
Phoenix IT Group CEO David Courtley has resigned after just 15 months in charge, the company has revealed
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October 03, 2012
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SCH celebrates best ever year, plans major SCC investment
SCC-parent SCH has brushed aside concerns surrounding the British economy to post its most successful financial year in its near 40-year history
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October 02, 2012
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Cloud Distribution sets the Ball rolling
Value added distie Cloud Distribution has named network veteran James Ball as its technical manager as it seeks to capitalise on its recent growth and move up “to the next level”
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October 01, 2012
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 28 September 2012
Our regular look back at the most popular news stories from the past seven days on MicroScope.co.uk
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September 28, 2012
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Channel calls for EC cloud strategy refinements
Cloud services providers have welcomed the release of the European Commission’s European Cloud Computing Strategy report, but say that Brussels’ proposals need further refinement
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September 27, 2012
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IBM ups support for MSPs in cloud push
IBM has indicated it will offer more technical and financial support to managed service providers to encourage them to develop services based around its cloud platforms
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September 27, 2012
27
Sep'12
Lanway star signing for Burnley FC
Managed services and comms provider Lanway has renewed its support for its local team, Championship side Burnley FC with a new outsourcing deal expected to shave 25% from the club’s costs
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September 27, 2012
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Sep'12
Mimecast plans US expansion with $62m funding
Having secured $62m worth of funding cloud email management specialist Mimecast has outlined plans to plough the funds into R&D and US expansion
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September 26, 2012
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Cisco reacts to cloud changes with Master certification
Cisco has introduced a Master Cloud Builder specialisation as it looks to generate more resellers capable of selling a wide ranging solution to meet customer needs
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September 26, 2012
26
Sep'12
Ingram celebrates a year of channel transformation
Ingram Micro has marked the first anniversary of the Channel Transformation Alliance by outlining its plans to increase reseller support in year two
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September 25, 2012
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Rise appoints channel head to support reseller cloud moves
Rise has appointed Sue MacDermott as head of channel with a brief to help more resellers make the transition to the cloud as it looks to get more business through existing partners
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September 24, 2012
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 21 September 2012
Our regular look back at the most read stories from the past week on MicroScope.co.uk
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September 19, 2012
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Comms-care adds new teams to meet services demand
Channel-focused services and support provider Comms-care is recruiting to make sure it can meet runaway growth in demand for support services
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September 19, 2012
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Cloud growth a wake up for the channel
Recent figures showing strong growth in adoption of hosted applications and services in recent months should spur reseller activity in this area
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September 17, 2012
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Sep'12
Cloud adoption speeding up
Adoption of cloud applications and services has speeded up over the last nine months as more customers start to embrace the technology
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September 17, 2012
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Sep'12
Redstone absorbs Maxima remnants in £13.8m deal
Networking and IT solutions integrator Redstone has opened its wallet to pick up the remaining assets of sunken rival Maxima in a deal that values the firm, at £13.8m, including net debt
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September 17, 2012
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MicroScope's top stories, week ending 14 September 2012
Our regular rundown of the most read stories of the past week on MicroScope.co.uk
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September 14, 2012
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Sep'12
HDD or SSD debate heads to the cloud
The appeal of solid state drives is something that cloud providers are going to have to start thinking more about as customers look for quick performance options
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September 12, 2012
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Salford City Council offers cloud service to local businesses
Salford City Council will offer a private cloud service to local businesses through a partnership with ANS Group
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September 11, 2012
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Sep'12
Calyx boss speaks of plans for MSP evolution
Newly-appointed Calyx CEO Steve Clark has been speaking about his plans for the business as the firm continues its evolution into a true managed services provider.
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September 11, 2012
11
Sep'12
Six Degrees signs up to Interxion carrier community
Acquisitive cloud services and UC provider Six Degrees division Datahop has signed up to offer network services via carrier-neutral datacentre provider Interxion’s new London facility.
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September 10, 2012
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Sep'12
Youngjohns steps into Autonomy hotseat
Former Microsoft executive Robert Youngjohns has been appointed by HP to run Autonomy stepping into the shoes of departed boss Mike Lynch