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Exploring the challenges and opportunities for IT professionals

Datto’s Global State of the MSP: Trends and Forecasts for 2024 underscores the importance of customer experience in a highly competitive market.

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Ian Anderson to lead Park Place Technologies' EMEA channel

Park Place Technologies has appointed Ian Anderson as Senior Director, Channel Sales, EMEA.

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Node4 successfully achieves ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 certifications

Node4 has passed the ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 audits, reinforcing its dedication to data security, privacy, and compliance in the realm of cloud computing.

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Park Place Technologies acquires Xuper

Park Place Technologies has acquired Xuper Limited, an IT solutions provider based in Derby, UK.

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Schneider Electric accelerates IT Channel decarbonisation with Zeigo Activate

New SaaS solution helps channel partners, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) set accurate, achievable decarbonization targets, develop an action plan, and provides access to an ecosystem of specialist service providers.

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Companies’ reliance on IT Managed Services increases in 2023

IT channel partners selling managed services are poised for robust growth in 2023, with a new forecast predicting global expansion of 12.7 percent, up from US$419 billion in 2022.

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MSPs are continuing to show unprecedented growth rates for third straight year

Service Leadership, Inc.®, a ConnectWise solution, has released the findings of its Service Leadership Index® 2023 Annual IT Solution Provider Industry Profitability Report™, recognised worldwide as the “IT solution provider industry encyclopedia of performance”.

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Kyndryl targets $47 billion Managed Security Services market

Flexible and modular services speed cyber attack detection, response and recovery.

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Royal Holloway University London top of the IT infrastructure class

Daisy Corporate Services has helped Royal Holloway University London (RHUL) reduce its data centre footprint by 75% and achieve energy savings of over 72% with the implementation of a new virtual infrastructure solution based on HPE dHCI technology.

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Software-Defined Data Centre market to hit $1 Tn by 2035

Software-Defined Data Center Market report delivers a detailed competitor’s analysis and a detailed overview in terms of market segmentation by component, enterprise size, industry, and by region.

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Automation, cybersecurity and integration top MSP priority list

Acquiring new customers amidst growing competition and dealing with sophisticated security threats cited as their greatest challenges.

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78% of channel partners have “more to do” in shift to services and subscriptions

International research report by Westcon-Comstor reveals challenges of complex multivendor portfolios, and the need for distributor marketplaces to simplify and add value,

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The data centre challenge behind digital transformation

Digital transformation has reached a turning point. Businesses have now added so many new applications and need so much data consistently available, that accessing sufficient capacity in data centers is becoming a challenge.

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Channel leaders applaud a people-first culture

Agilitas launches ‘EVOLVE for Your People’ Report.

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Park Place acquires CentricsIT

Park Place Technologies has acquired the TPM and Professional Services assets of CentricsIT, an IT services provider based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Videos

Neil Potter, Business Development Manager for Electrical Systems and Solutions, Eaton, discusses the problems data centre owners and operators have when it comes to optimising the design, implementation, operation and retirement of their electrical infrastructure; and goes on to explain how the company’s recently launched xIntegra solution addresses these challenges by providing an holistic, integrated systems engineering approach to electrical systems design, hardware, software, services and the value chain lifecycle.
Guido Grillenmeier, Principal Technologist EMEA at identity security pioneer, Semperis, discusses the company’s recent research which reveals that too many organisations are still failing to address Active Directory security gaps. The good news is that, those who do tackle this problem and engage expert help see a massive improvement in their security posture.
Christina Mertens, Vice President of Business Development, EMEA, and Darren Watkins, Managing Director, both at VIRTUS Data Centres, discuss the company’s planned 300MW Wustermark Data Centre Campus - poised to become one of Germany's and Europe’s largest scale green data centre campuses and described as a ‘new benchmark for data centre capacity for Cloud and AI in Europe’.
Neil MacDonald, UK & Ireland Channel Director for HP Inc., discusses the importance of sustainability to the IT Channel, with a major opportunity for companies to become environmental trusted advisors to end users. Neil outlines the many programmes and initiatives which HP has developed to address key sustainability issues, such as a packaging re-think, tech take back and closed loop recycling, all of which help their Channel partners to deliver measurable sustainability benefits to their customers.

Expert Opinions

By Patrick Wragg, Head of Incident Response at Integrity360.
In business for nearly 30 years, MR Datentechnik is a leading German provider of IT solutions and managed services. To launch a new S3-compatible storage service, the company implemented Quantum ActiveScale object storage along with Veeam Backup & Replication. By using ActiveScale, the company can offer a resilient, highly scalable service that has the flexibility to support a wide range of S3-enabled apps and workflows.
A Journey Through Data Center Cooling Systems.
By Kelley Mullick PhD, Vice President of Technology Advancement and Alliances, Iceotope.