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Public Cloud Architecture

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  HeleCloud CTO: Now is the right time for public cloud

  The pandemic has accelerated customers’ move to the cloud and the channel is well placed to lead them through the choices on offer

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Budget: SME Help to Grow scheme could foster further cloud adoption

  The channel has focused in on the impact of the budget on the SME community with the chancellor of the exchequer looking to increase digital skills and technology adoption

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  NetApp highlights public sector opportunity for partners

  Impact of the pandemic has only accelerated a move to a hybrid world and underlined the need for partner support, says NetApp

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Cloud security doubts remain

  Even with the acceleration in adoption of hosted services, the channel will still have to convince some customers that all is safe when it comes to cloud security

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Microsoft encourages more co-sell in programme updates

  Vendor is keen to unify its programmes and put more partners in front of each other and customers

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Microsoft sizes channel opportunity at £9bn

  Research shows that customers looking to improve competitiveness will be reaching out to the channel over the course of this year

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Channel driving growth for public cloud giants

  The sales have been impressive but Canalys has highlighted the strength of the channel in boosting sales for the likes of Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft Azure

• January 28, 2021 28 Jan'21

  Logicalis driving global strategy with Microsoft and Cisco

  Channel player Logicalis is working at a global level with vendors Microsoft and Cisco to devise and implement solutions that will help customers to get the most out of a hybrid cloud world

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  AWS channel chief: Partners key to growing the business

  Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services’ channel chief speaks of the importance of partners and the acceleration of cloud adoption during the coronavirus pandemic

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  AWS rolls out fresh programmes and competencies

  Cloud giant uses partner slot at Re:Invent to share its ambition to support ISVs and give partners the chance to gain more competencies

• November 26, 2020 26 Nov'20

  Tech Data kicks off second wave of AWS Practice Builder scheme

  Distributor builds on scheme that started back in June, inviting more partners to get skilled up

• November 02, 2020 02 Nov'20

  NetApp pointing partners to hybrid multicloud future

  Vendor’s view of the world has been validated by the response to the pandemic and it wants partners to accelerate customer cloud adoption

• October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20

  Cohesity and AWS tie-up will add options for partners

  Storage player has shared the implications for its partners from the strategic collaboration it has announced with the cloud giant

• September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20

  Google Cloud forecasts growth for UK partners

  Public cloud player shares findings of an IDC study into the growth prospects for those that choose to partner with the vendor

• September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20

  Content+Cloud emerges out of IT Lab and Content & Code merger

  Newly formed entity will be one of the largest MSPs in the UK providing Microsoft cloud services to customers

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  AWS: Partners grow more quickly selling cloud

  Public cloud player shares research that reveals that those in the channel selling cloud are experiencing faster growth than those that are not

• September 11, 2020 11 Sep'20

  Now’s the time for MSPs to fully embrace cloud

  Many MSPs already offer hosted services in some form, but the pandemic has shown that the future is going to involve even more cloud

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Logicalis and Claranet look to Brazil for investment targets

  Channel firms have identified companies with cloud expertise that will add more muscle to their portfolios

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Aptum tracks shifting responses to cloud

  Firm shares research with its channel that shows just how far most customers have come to adopting the cloud during the coronavirus pandemic

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Resellers overcoming resistance to agent model

  Avaya has seen its channel partners change their position on the master agent model as the vendor has led more of them through the process

• June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  Veeam reminds partners of data’s role in a digital transformation play

  Vendor’s recent VeeamON event underlined its belief in the need to focus on the data

• May 01, 2020 01 May'20

  Coronavirus gives cloud service providers short-term boost

  The move to hosted tools has helped drive record sales of cloud infrastructure services in the first quarter of 2020, but the big migration projects have been put on hold

• April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20

  F5 reveals users facing multi-cloud security concerns

  Vendor’s latest report on application services finds that the EMEA customer base is pro-cloud, but is dealing with some challenges

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  SCC steps in to develop and support PPE training website

  Channel player SCC moves quickly to help roll out a resource that NHS staff can access nationally to provide guidance on the correct use of personal protective equipment

• March 13, 2020 13 Mar'20

  IT Lab adds Azure expertise with Sol-Tec acquisition

  Firm makes its fourth acquisition in as many years as it continues to expand the depth of cloud support it can provide

• March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  Cloud security concerns remain an issue

  The argument that cloud security has been dealt with appear premature, according to research

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  Nutanix aims for SMB growth with channel Cloud Bundles

  Enterprise cloud player is looking for SMB growth across EMEA and views the channel as key to its ambitions

• February 20, 2020 20 Feb'20

  Insight will move de Sousa into EMEA role

  Next year will see changes in Insight’s EMEA leadership, with the current UK boss the chosen candidate to take up that role

• February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20

  Rubrik surfs demand for multicloud data management

  Firm has shared some of the highlights from its fiscal year, with the efforts of partners clearly delivering for it

• February 06, 2020 06 Feb'20

  Commercial sales fuel high channel revenues at NetApp

  Data specialist NetApp has seen its channel business hit record levels thanks to the growth in demand from the partner-facing customer base

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  NetApp: Digital transformation and hybrid cloud key market themes

  Data specialist NetApp uses London event to highlight some of the key trends that are driving customer spending

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  VMware nudging partners towards SaaS model

  Software and services is the way that the vendor is expecting more of its partners to go

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Canalys: Cloud infrastructure players need the channel

  In a hybrid multi-cloud world the channel is in an ideal position to help guide customers to make the right decisions

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Avaya hits back at ‘no cloud’ claims

  Avaya responds to reports it is losing channel partners due to its lack of cloud offering

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Private cloud infrastructure spending holding steady

  An analysis of Q2 from IDC indicates that public cloud infrastructure spending weakened but sales on the private side held up

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Insight exposes the challenges for those running cloud projects

  European wide research casts a light on the struggles that users are having meeting the various demands of their businesses

• August 29, 2019 29 Aug'19

  AWS partner HeleCloud sets sights on Europe with acquisition

  AWS specialist makes its first acquisition gaining a foothold in the Benelux region with the aim of exploiting the growth opportunities in that region

• August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19

  Financial services sector needs help with cloud and security

  A recognition of the need for digital transformation is twinned with an acceptance that the skills and security is not there to make it happen for quite a few financial services players

• August 01, 2019 01 Aug'19

  Ingram Micro extends AWS relationship to cover UK&I

  Distributor builds on existing US relationship to add AWS to its UK and Ireland portfolio

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  Enterprise growth delivers strong year at UKFast

  Cloud player has shared its 2018 numbers showing that revenues have increased by double digits

• July 23, 2019 23 Jul'19

  Microsoft's OpenAI investment a positive for developers

  The $1bn multi-year investment should put Microsoft developers at the forefront of coming up with artificial intelligence tools for the Azure Cloud

• June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19

  Cloud IT infrastructure revenues rising despite spending drops

  An analysis of the IT infrastructure market from IDC shows that spending will slow this year but vendors do not look like missing out on revenues

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  Cloudian boss sees a long-term hybrid future

  Hybrid is here to stay according to the leader of one of the storage firms that offers both on-prem and hosted technology

• June 11, 2019 11 Jun'19

  SMEs still not getting the cloud

  Small firms are crying out for education around the cloud with many not using the technology

• May 24, 2019 24 May'19

  Customers struggling with cloud security

  Research from Claranet has revealed that many customers are finding it difficult to find the in-house resources to handle cloud security issues

• May 03, 2019 03 May'19

  VMware getting UK partners ready for Connect

  The vendor is rolling out a revised partner programme next year and efforts are already under way to make sure the channel is ready for that development

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Private cloud infrastructure spending on the rise

  The focus has been on public cloud for quite a while but the balance is shifting and IDC expects more action on the private side over the next few years

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  Vendor lock-in a user concern for those heading to the cloud

  Research from Fujistu has revealed some of the anxieties that customers are going through with the cloud

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Juniper Networks heralds multi-cloud channel opportunity

  Networking player views SD-WAN as a staging post on a much longer journey towards a multi-cloud automated world

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  AWS hails year-on-year rise in leads and deal sizes for cloud channel partners

  During the Global Partner Keynote at the AWS re:Invent user conference in Las Vegas, the firm’s vice president of global alliances ecosystems and channels, Terry Wise, revealed how its sales enablement efforts are paying off for partners