Security specialist Bloxx has appointed Mark Gibson as its new sales director. He joins from Capita where he was in charge of SAS’s public security sales and marketing across the entire SAS Public Group in the UK, the Americas and other markets.
All indicators are pointing to rapid growth of managed services, but many key players are uncertain as to direction and nature of the investments. Leading vendors, solution and service providers will meet in London in September 2014 at the annual forum to hammer out ideas.
Claranet is buying Portuguese managed hosting and applications provider Echiron, as part of its continued expansion into Europe. It says this makes it the largest cloud services provider to the mid-market in the region.
Financial software company Misys has bought eastern European IND Group, a specialist in digital channels, based in Hungary. It adds consumer-oriented solutions to Misys' core banking capabilities.
Tech Data has finally been able to file its accounts for the year which ended twelve months ago. It...
Iceland-based social media platform Vivaldi aims to capture users seeking to avoid aggressive advertising and government security forces, and hopes for a boost from the closure of a rival, says founder Jon von Tetzchner.
Independent software vendors (ISVs) are set for an interesting year or two, with vendors looking to engage their influence over customers and with customers thinking more carefully about what they buy and how they buy it.
Dell's new reseller agreement with Cumulus Networks will give other channels a new offering in open networking solutions.
The UK tech sector shifted up another gear during the fourth quarter of 2013, with strong inflows of new work driving the steepest expansion of business activity for almost a decade, according to the latest KPMG/Markit Tech Monitor UK report.
Microsoft shares rose after it indicated Q2 commercial sales rising, even though it is also lowering its FY14 (ends June '14) opex guidance range to $31.2bn-$31.5bn from a prior $31.3bn-$31.9bn.