Woking, Surrey: 28th March 2014 – As it celebrates its 38th birthday, and with its financial year yet to close, Wick Hill announces a record breaking year for both the UK and DACH, with over 30% growth already achieved and the $100m sales barrier passed earlier in the yearWick Hill was founded in 1976 and is currently one of the longest established independent IT value added distributors in Europe. According to founder and chairman Ian Kilpatrick, one of the main reasons for the VAD’s longevity is its commitment to excellence, both in the products and the services it provides.”The emphasis…
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Centrix Software, workspace management solutions expert, has announced a partnership with leading UK reseller Softcat to jointly sell and market its WorkSpace iQ usage analytics engine as part of Softcat’s Software Asset Management (SAM) portfolio. Building on a successful 2013 when the company established itself as the leading Workspace Management provider, delivering a record breaking 400 per cent revenue growth, the announcement forms part of the company’s 2014 plan to further build strategic partnerships within the IT industry.According to Gartner, more than 25% of IT spending is already outside CIOs’ control and this figure is predicted to grow to 40%…
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Royal Philips, the global leader in LED lighting, today reveals the world’s first 3D-printed smart luminaires, a design addition to the expanding Philips hue range. Fusing the worlds of light, art and technology, these luminaires allow limitless light effects, bringing a piece of art to your living room. The innovative Philips 3D-printed hue table & pendant luminaires were co-created with globally-renowned design teams WertelOberfell and Strand+Hvass. The luminaires will be on display at the Philips Forum at Light and Building show in Frankfurt from 31st March – 4th April 2014.Making the extraordinary possibleWith hue, a simple…
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, today announces a world’s first: hue tap, a clever little switch which makes controlling your favorite hue light scenes even easier. Being kinetic-powered no batteries are needed.Reinventing the light switchHue tap is as smart as the hue bulbs it controls, and just as easy to use. For moments when you prefer not to use your smart device to turn the lights on, such as when your phone is charging or the kids are playing with your tablet, simply tap! Also, you can extend your app into the physical world…
If credit card details are compromised, shoppers will not return to do businessSurrey, 27 March 2014 – New research commissioned by Semafone® has revealed that the overwhelming majority of people would not do business with a company that had failed to protect its customers’ card data. In the survey, conducted by OnePoll, 86.55% of 2,000 respondents stated that they were “not at all likely” or “not very likely” to do business with an organisation that had suffered a data breach involving credit or debit card details. The proportion of women expressing this view was 91.48%, which was markedly higher than…
[London, 27 March 2014] Independent software vendors (ISVs) face a wide-open market with great opportunities, but will need to focus to get the best rewards in the longer term. Discussions at the European ISV Convention staged in London this week recognised the rapid changes in the independent software business, but it was the nature of the change that most experts were concerned about. Rob Craft, senior director of enterprise cloud at Microsoft said that the transition to cloud was not so much a toggle as a slider. HP’s cloud portfolio director Hans Van Breda also said that it was an…
Customers expect to be able to choose how they communicate with contact centres now and are even switching between channels such as phone, email, text message, chat and social media to discuss a single requirement. Service advisors therefore need systems that allow them to see a customer’s messages across all these channels in one place, along with that person’s profile and history, in order to efficiently meet their requirements. The response has to be quick and informed, so that the customer feels listened to and doesn’t have to repeat themselves – because they are much more likely than ever before…
Houston, 27 March – Petrotechnics, the global leader in transforming frontline operational performance and lowering operational risk, will address process safety management leaders at the 10th Global Congress on Process Safety on how technology can be used to improve the management of operational risk.Held at the Hilton Hotel in New Orleans from 30th March- 2nd April, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) event, is one of the world’s largest gathering of process safety experts attracting over 1500 from across the world. Petrotechnics has been selected by the organizers to deliver four presentations at the event around Operational Risk Management.Petrotechnics’…
[London, 27th March 2014] IT Europa, the leading European IT publisher and market intelligence organisation, has announced the winners of the European IT & Software Excellence Awards 2014 – the pan-European awards event for ISVs, IT and Telecoms channels. The finalists were honoured last night at a celebration dinner at the London Lancaster Hotel. 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. With strong, measurable returns, many of these IT projects prove…
Offers health care sector secure clinical authentication with No Click Access® within virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI).Reading, UK, 27 March 2014 – IGEL Technology is integrating Imprivata OneSign® ProveID Embedded into all its x86-based thin and zero clients with the recently released firmware updates 4.13.100 and 5.02.100. The solution offers users in the health care sector secure clinical authentication with No Click Access® within virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI). With the solution directly integrated into the firmware of the IGEL clients, Imprivata OneSign ProveID Embedded allows high-performance, pre-installed user authentication for rapid, secure access to clinical applications and critical patient information. In…
Ian Kilpatrick, chairman Wick Hill Group, looks at the current state of authentication and examines the solutions on offer from two companies in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. 123456. Amazingly, surveys show that this is the most popular password for authentication. And simple passwords are still the most used authentication method. However, popularity, in this case, just doesn’t equate with success.Security breaches are becoming a daily occurrence and high profile companies such as Yahoo, Target and Tesco are just some of the famous names amongst the victims of password theft. Recently, on a Netherlands server, researchers discovered compromised credentials for more than…
InstallMac specializes in optimizing the process of distribution and monetization of Mac applications, offering publishers the opportunity to double their paymentsHERZLIYA, Israel, March 27, 2014: InstallMac, the monetization and software distribution platform for premium Mac OSx software publishers and advertisers, today announces it is launching its Beta offering, which is second only in size to the Apple Store.InstallMac, originally launched in alpha 10 months ago, was the first Mac software distribution platform specialising in the full monetization of the download process.It quickly monetized 90% of organic Mac traffic from Internet Valley in Israel and has continued to grow thanks to…
Volgograd, Russia – 27 March 2014 – ReclaiMe Data Recovery, one of the leading data recovery software vendors, today declared the results of the internal research aimed at determining most commonly recovered filesystems. The research found that NTFS still wins with more than 60% of all the incidents while the recently released ReFS is not yet popular, it takes last place with 1%. The research was conducted during 2013 and covered about 30,000 recovery incidents. “It is known that data recovery always lags behind development of new data storage technologies since it is impossible to recover data from the device…
In summary Steria has just concluded a contract with the General Secretariat of the European Union to modernise and secure the communications networks used to share information internally and with Member States. The four-year framework contract, worth €6 million, is renewable for two twelve-month periods. Paris, France – 27 March 2014 – Steria, a leading provider of IT-enabled business services, today announced the signature of a framework contract with the Secretariat General of the Council of the European Union to modernise its PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), thus streamlining all the resources used to share information internally and between EU Member…
Key findings from new WorldPay research include:29% are planning to enable sales via social media in the next 12 months40% say self-service kiosks will be less important in the futureMobile acceptance on-board flights will rise to 36% in the next two yearsLondon, 26th March, 2014 – Airlines will increase their focus on new distribution channels such as mobile and social media over the next two years, according to WorldPay’s Alternative Payment and Distribution Landscape: Airline Distribution Channels report.WorldPay, a global leader in airline payment processing and settlements, surveyed 68 global carriers (from low cost to traditional), and found that 83%…
Avaya Automated Campus removes the need for manual service provisioning to speed and simplify the delivery of end-to-end, cloud-based services.New solutions make Avaya the only vendor in the industry to deliver a unified end-to-end, virtualised network from data centre to the end device.Includes the automated on-boarding of user devices at the edge – saving IT hours / days and helping to eliminate errors that cause outages.Guildford, UK – 26 March, 2014 – Avaya today announced that it is extending automation from the data centre to the end device, completely removing manual provisioning from everyday service delivery. With new and enhanced…
Ogone helps UK bike and sportswear retailer Wiggle achieve rate of 60% international shoppers London, 26th March 2014: Ogone, an Ingenico Company, and leading international Payment Service Provider are proud to announce notable successes to date with sporting goods retailer Wiggle. Offering a range of hi-tech sporting goods, Wiggle’s name as a quality sports retailer is now prevalent in markets such as The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Austria, thanks to Ogone’s bespoke Collect solution. Before Ogone, Wiggle experienced rapid success across European territories, but was becoming increasingly aware of the growing number of different global payment methods available. It recognised…
Intamac Systems Limited announces a new 3 year partnership agreement with Sprue, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of home safety products including smoke and carbon monoxide alarms sold under the FireAngel brand.Under the partnership, Sprue will launch an internet connectivity solution for its FireAngel Wi-Safe II range of wireless safety products, known as ‘Connect Safe Home’, which will allows users to remotely monitor the status of wirelessly connected home safety products from a smartphone, PC or tablet using apps designed by Intamac. Intamac’s ‘Internet of Things’ cloud technology will provide data analytics, event notification and management level reporting information to…
SALT LAKE CITY – March 26, 2014 – To support the management of an increasing variety of mobile devices ranging from consumer iOS, Android and Windows devices to rugged mobile computers, Wavelink today announced the newest version of its enterprise mobility management software, Avalanche. There are two types of mission-critical users in the enterprise: the operational task worker, who uses the traditional ruggedized devices, and the customer-facing task worker for whom companies are evaluating a wider spectrum of device options—which includes consumer devices. Deployed in an on-premise configuration or through the cloud, Avalanche 6.0 secures and manages all types of…
Customer Adoption Demonstrates Versatility of Spine, Spline™ and Programmable Arista EOSMarch 26, 2014 – Arista Networks today announced two new 100 GbE modules that, with Arista EOS, provide scalability, multi-tenancy, and network virtualization through open and programmable overlays, helping customers achieve seamless workload and VM mobility. Automated provisioning, combined with the new products, gives customers greater flexibility, scale and density for the most demanding cloud networks. Additionally, the 7300X Series with 10GBASE-T modules are gaining adoption among customers deploying cost-effective single tier and two tier networks.The new line cards expand the portfolio of high density and cost-effective 100GbE. The Arista…