Virgin Media Business has launched a Business Partner programme aimed at helping partners to take advantage of growth opportunities resulting from the explosion in business data. The initiative will give channel organisations the support they need to tap into this fast-growing market, it says.

SAP's SME head and UK Government CIO are to headline the SIIA OnDemand Europe conference for Cloud Computing.

CA Technologies is offering reseller margins of up to 40% on eligible CA Recovery Management and Data Modelling deals for CA Reseller Partners. The Go Further with Deal Registration promotion eliminates the minimum order requirements on all CA ARCserve orders and raises upfront margins and back-end rebates on qualified ARCserve and ERwin sales.

Dot Hill has signed a channel partnership in France with PACT Informatique, a storage distributor. According to the agreement, this partner will take the entire Dot Hill line of RAID solutions to its network of 1,500 resellers.

Overland has appointed Kevin Gosden as regional sales manager for Northern EMEA. Gosden will be responsible for growing channel sales of Overland's award-winning disk and tape-based data management and data protection solutions. He reports to Andy Walsky, vice president EMEA sales and marketing at Overland.

Advanced Computer Software Plc, a specialist provider of software and IT services to the health, care and commercial sectors, has a new group structure to improve efficiencies and maximise cross-selling, supporting its growth strategy. Advanced now comprises three distinct divisions: Health & Care; Business Solutions; and Managed Services.

Spiceworks has launched its new "Reach" partner program, which is designed to enable providers of cloud-based services to easily reach the 1 million IT pros using the Spiceworks social IT management application.

Concerns over data security are inhibiting government agencies from embracing Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and social networking, a survey by Ovum has revealed.

The study, which involved 150 local and national government agencies across Europe and North America being surveyed, found that security is the most significant barrier to Web 2.0.

Virtualisation is the top technology to invest in Research VP Philip Dawson, from business technology research firm Gartner, told an audience at Trustmarque Solutions Customer Event that every organisation needs to be working towards virtualisation and Cloud Computing and embracing social media.

Over the last 20 years the Internet has grown from almost nothing to something of enormous economic and social value. But in the meantime, its consumption of electricity, which currently stands at 3% to 5% of the global supply, is increasing exponentially.