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BROTHER
Brother UK has
successfully retained
its Investors in People
Platinum status.The
accolade recognises the
company’s investment
in developing staff to
achieve sustained business
success, as well as its
support for the channel,
customers and the wider
community.
EXERTIS
Exertis has been awarded
Authorised Economic
Operator (AEO) status
for customs activities by
HM Revenue & Customs
(HMRC), joining 752 UK
businesses that hold the
accreditation. AEO is an
internationally recognised
“kite mark” which
highlights organisations
deemed to be a “safe”
operator with regards to
imports and exports.
UFP
UFP has been awarded
2018 Xerox Distribution
Partner of the Year at
Xerox’s UK Channel
Partner Congress
held at Celtic Manor,
Newport. Xerox said
that the relationship
between UFP and Xerox
has “strengthened
signifi cantly” over the
past twelve months with
the distributor ensuring
quarterly targets have
been met by its resellers.
SERVER SECURITY
UK Businesses are risking
a potential data breach.
44% of businesses are
failing to properly protect
their client and employee
data by not adequately
securing their server.
Business in the UK are
more likely to experience
a cyber attack than see a
rainy day according to the
research.
6 www.technologybusinesstoday.com April 2019 DID YOU
KNOW
The worldwide
market for
wearable devices
is forecast to grow
to 198.5 million
units by the end
of 2019, according
to IDC. Driving
that growth will
be the continued
proliferation of
watches, ear-worn
devices, and wrist
bands as well as
further adoption
in the healthcare
segment. Looking
ahead, the market
is expected to
reach 279 million
units by the end
of 2023 with a
compound annual
growth rate
(CAGR) of 8.9%.
IT SKILLS GAP HITS UK
MANAGED Service Providers
are struggling to protect their
customers due to the IT skills
gap in the UK.
According to Continuum CEO
Michael George (pictured), the
cybersecurity demands of small
and medium-sized businesses
outweigh the MSPs ability to
deal with them because fi nding
cybersecurity jobs will be
adequate employees to fi ll new
unfi lled.
IT positions is proving diffi cult.
He said: “Our own fi ndings
George claimed that there are
say that 81 per cent of SMBs
over 100,000 IT jobs currently
would consider legal action
unfi lled across EMEA and
against their security provider
cited a study by CompTIA that
in the event of an attack which
said that by 2021 3.5 million
is often the managed service
provider.
If you ask companies if they
are secure they will see on
an invoice they are paying for
‘security’ but that may just be
anti-virus software but not the
security necessary to fortify
their technology environments.
MSPs are also struggling to
be the barer of this bad news
that the security protection
they provide is no longer
adequate and SMEs have too few
people to support the complex
Cloud, virtualisation, back up
environments. They don’t have
the people to do it.”
PURE PREPARE PARTNERS
FOR NEW BUSINESS
THE new Pure Storage
channel and alliances in EMEA
distribution program is integral
Matthieu Brignone
for the vendor to achieve its
(pictured) and
growth target of at least $35Bn
head of global
according to the head of
distribution
global distribution.
Scott Goree
The new program is
described the
aimed to recruit a handful
expansion as
of new reseller partners
a “selective
and introduce Pure
products and
services into
new markets
through
those
partners.
Pure
Storage
head of
recruitment” and said that the
vendor has embarked on an
employee recruitment drive since
January, growing the European
channel team headcount from 30
to 50.
“To achieve our growth targets,
we need our distributors to drive
our business” said Goree.
“The scale we get from our
distributors, driving business and
driving distributor-lead partners
and resellers is how we are going
to grow to the next phase of our go
to market strategy.
We set guidance of 30 to
35 per cent growth and I see
international business as a
growth driver for the company.”
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The UK stands
to gain a £62
billion boost to
the economy by
2030 thanks
to autonomous
vehicles
according to a
report by the
Society of Motor
Manufacturers
and Traders
(SMMT) and
Frost & Sullivan.
3x faster is how
much Tech Hubs
grew, outside
of the capital,
compared to
London between
2016 and 2018.
Job creation
in Manchester,
Leeds and
Birmingham
increased 29 per
cent, 22 per cent
and 20 per cent
respectively.
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