Markets round-up for the week: 19 March
VAR Softcat has reported a 17% increase in sales for the first half ended 31 January, 2025. Sales stood at £546m for the...
Hybrid Cloud
Oracle ups support for cloud service providers with $5bn UK investment
Oracle is spending $5 billion over the next five years in the UK to help meet the growing demand for cloud services. The...
Virtana appoints Appleby to help firms get most out of infrastructure
Infrastructure management services firm Virtana has appointed Paul Appleby as its new chief executive officer, to help...
Software AG asset sale to IBM is blow to partners
IBM is acquiring key services assets from Software AG to help drive its AI and hybrid cloud business units...
New mainframe cloud data services player raises its head
A new provider in mainframe data services in the hybrid cloud is being enabled with almost $5m in seed funding. There...
Big data infrastructure services is a growing market
The number of mainframes in the world is continuing to go down, but the amount of data stored on them is going up, so...
Broadcom seals $69bn VMware deal
Broadcom has finalised its purchase of VMware for $69bn, receiving approval from China for the merger. Hock Tan...
Cisco and Nutanix join forces to enable multi-cloud delivery
Cisco and Nutanix have announced a global strategic partnership to accelerate hybrid multi-cloud deployments through the...
Celerity adds new CRO and CFO to its board
BGF-backed managed service provider Celerity has strengthened its senior team, with the appointment of Julie Redfern and...
HPE expands hybrid cloud offering with OpsRamp buy
HPE GreenLake's hybrid cloud offering is gaining more capabilities following the acquisition of ITOM company OpsRamp...