This year's European IT Excellence Awards shows just how diverse the IT supply industry has become with solutions ranging from construction site management to healthcare systems and government document control, and from all parts of Europe.
Next Wednesday Europe's ISVs will aim to get their questions answered by the leading names in the business. The final agenda has now been published at www.isvconvention.com/agenda.html . As well as top speakers from Gartner, HP, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM.
The quarterly security appliance market in 2013 in the EMEA region posted a 0.4% q/q decline, according to a consultancy International Data Corporation (IDC).
UK Prime Minister Cameron has committed more funding to develop the Internet of Things, and joint development with Germany on various technologies.
With fundamental shifts currently impacting the marketplace, many Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are reviewing their position in the market and the optimum strategies for future development.
Orsyp, IT operations management solutions provider, has appointed Eurotech Computer Services to resell its WAN optimisation control and network performance management solutions (Steamcore) in the UK and Ireland.
EU antitrust commissioner Joaquin Almunia has defended a deal with Google following criticism from rivals and others, saying there had been no gentlemen's agreement to close the case.
The independent software vendors in Europe are having a busy time; our sister site ISVEuropa has been reporting on some great growth stories across Europe, from booming m2m connections to expansion-minded software companies moving outside core territories.
McAfee is giving MSPs and other channels the chance to sell hardware as a service, and has widened its channel portfolio as it says 2014 is a key time for the momentum building up in the market.
Security solutions specialist WatchGuard has appointed an Irish Micro Warehouse as its new distributor of Unified Threat Management (UTM) platforms portfolio. Rory Wilson (pictured), Managing Director at MicroWarehouse says: "With WatchGuard’s new wireless access points, customers can have the same level of security and centralised management for corporate and personal mobile devices in the business environment.”