Microsoft preps big guns to shift Copilot software and PCs Canalys Forums EMEA IT admins be warned: 13,000 tech suppliers coming for your employer's checkbook AI + ML29 Nov 2024 | 53
Pakistan's tech lobby warns that slow internet is strangling IT industry Low-priced freelancers and call centers are at risk Channel21 Nov 2024 | 12
SCC, one of Europe's largest resellers, orders staff back to their desks for three days a week Exclusive CEO tells The Reg customers are facing same challenges, not ruling out full-time RTO Channel21 Oct 2024 | 22
US tightens export controls on quantum kit and chips for China, Iran, Russia Alloys make the list too, as allies try to ensure foes can't weaponise tech Public Sector06 Sep 2024 | 4
If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do Comment Microsoft's Copilot+ machines suck at one of computing's oldest use cases Channel05 Sep 2024 | 151
Copilot for Microsoft 365 might boost productivity if you survive the compliance minefield Loads of governance issues to worry about, and the chance it might spout utter garbage AI + ML04 Sep 2024 | 25
Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all As AWS, Microsoft, and Google hike some prices, it's time to open up the ROI calculator PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2024 | 142
Dow-ward spiral: Intel share price drop could see it delisted from blue-chip index 50% dive in market cap during 2024 forcing CEO Pat Gelsinger to revisit strategy Channel03 Sep 2024 | 22
IBM Canada can't duck channel exec's systematic age discrimination claim 'They actually replaced me with a younger employee' Channel04 Aug 2024 | 34
South Korea creates $445M bailout fund after payment glitch trips up e-commerce giant Founder forbidden to leave the country, promises to make things right for out-of-pocket vendors Software30 Jul 2024 | 9
Fujitsu picks model-maker Cohere as its partner for the rapid LLM-development dance Will become exclusive route to market for joint projects AI + ML17 Jul 2024 | 4
ASUS quietly built supercomputers, datacenters and an LLM. Now it's quietly selling them all together The plan is a slow build – not a breakout into enterprise tech Off-Prem13 Jun 2024 |
Google goes shopping for Indian e-commerce dominance … at Walmart Invests $350 million in Flipkart Channel27 May 2024 | 5
VMware by Broadcom blinks again – this time easing change for cloud service providers As the rumor mill whispers about a breakup with AWS Virtualization01 May 2024 | 16
Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems Channel19 Apr 2024 | 1
Cloud Software Group and Microsoft pledge another eight years of co-opetition Consortium will spend $1.65 billion on Azure, 365 – and of course some AI Software08 Apr 2024 | 1
Wipro appoints new CEO: 32-year veteran and current US boss Srini Pallia takes over ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: YouTube's fake India election ad policy; Singtel not selling Optus; Do Chinese tech stalk former workers? Channel07 Apr 2024 | 1
Microsoft reseller Bytes says more than 100 undisclosed share trades linked to ex-CEO Surprise resignation of chief exec happened after FCA probe began, claims filing Channel18 Mar 2024 | 12
Claims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses Reaction from channel was 'stunned silence followed by anger and disbelief' Channel15 Mar 2024 | 31
VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May Exclusive But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content Channel11 Mar 2024 | 8
Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware 'Forever unbrickable' Wi-Fi 6 box from Banana Pi comes packaged or in kit form
Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs A massively increased bill was one motive, but customers went cold on Virtzilla, and OpenNebula proved more efficient
Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card? 80486 processor lead architect leaves x86 giant after largest quarterly loss in its history
Telco security is a dumpster fire and everyone's getting burned Opinion The politics of cybersecurity are too important to be left to the politicians
Submarine cable resilience board announced on same day maybe-cut-by-China Baltic cable repaired ITU thinks time is now for more talk about how to keep data moving beneath the waves
NetAdmin learns that wooden chocks, unlike swipe cards, open doors when networks can't Who, Me? Burglary skills are surprisingly important when building networks
Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz Only 10 months left until Windows 10 end of support and people still seem to prefer it
Oracle's Java price hikes push CIOs to brew new licensing strategies Users could save 50% with open source alternatives, says expert
Interpol nabs thousands, seizes millions in global cybercrime-busting op Infosec in brief Also, script kiddies still a threat, Tornado Cash is back, UK firms lose billions to avoidable attacks, and more
Apple's backwards design mistake and the reversed capacitor It's true – the Mac LC III really did have it installed the wrong way round
Boss at one of Microsoft's largest resellers quits, admits secret share deals London Stock Exchange listed Bytes Technology Group 'working to clarify details' after Neil Murphy resigns Channel22 Feb 2024 | 10
eBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered 9% of workforce getting boot after execs hired too many during pandemic Channel24 Jan 2024 | 20
AWS Marketplace adds sales of third-party services Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one bill Channel23 Jan 2024 | 1
Foxconn’s latest Indian foray is a chip packaging JV with HCL Group Updated Fending off ransomware at home in Taiwan as it continues diversification into semiconductors Channel19 Jan 2024 |
As Broadcom nukes VMware's channel, the big winner is set to be Nutanix A lot of IT depts can't wait to get past their ESX addiction Channel18 Jan 2024 | 26
India's big four services giants soar on demand for AI Pipelines are full, but hiring has slowed Channel18 Jan 2024 |
Broadcom to end VMware’s channel program, move partners to its own invite-only offering Suppliers don’t know much about what’s going on. Which leaves users in limbo, too Channel28 Dec 2023 | 9
Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago Asia In Brief PLUS: Fujitsu Japan spins out servers, storage, and PCs; Japan’s moonshot on track; Samsung reportedly delays Arizona fab opening Channel27 Dec 2023 | 26
China’s annual e-tail frenzy broke records – trust us, say government, Alibaba and JD.com 5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pile Channel13 Nov 2023 | 6
Sorry kids, Infosys and Wipro have cancelled graduate recruitment India's big four outsourcers scored record deals in Q2, but revenue didn't reflect those successes Channel20 Oct 2023 | 11
Gulf states and 'The Stans' could become new tech hotspot – analyst One has the talent, one has the money – both want more tech Channel12 Oct 2023 | 17
Microsoft delays debut of IoT security offer due to 'unexpected system challenges' Updated Software giant tells partners not to sell it but also happy to take your cash now Channel05 Oct 2023 | 11
Microsoft tells partners unbundling Teams is a 'compromise' with the EU Meanwhile, Zoom boss calls on US authorities to consider adopting Europe's breakout policy Channel06 Sep 2023 | 17
Two top execs quit Infosys mere months after its president skipped CISO and head of HR depart as services market tightens Channel06 Jul 2023 | 3
Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan All of FY2024 is going to be a 'washout' Channel16 Jun 2023 | 70
Dell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late Dell World Continues feeding the hybrid cloud monster Channel23 May 2023 |
India's major IT outsourcers slow hiring and fret about deal pipelines Two years ago the big four hired 243,000 workers. Last year that fell to 82,000 Channel05 May 2023 | 15
Microsoft coughs up some change after allegedly selling software to no-no companies Nadella happy to sling code to Russians and Iranians, or nah? Channel07 Apr 2023 | 13
Microsoft pauses delayed partner ecosystem security update to count its money Active Directory privilege de-escalation will run for nine days in May before taking June off Channel16 Mar 2023 | 2
India’s top four outsourcers report rosy revenues, mild macroeconomic misgivings Attrition woes subside as workers stop shifting, producing pleasing cost savings Channel17 Jan 2023 | 3
Microsoft extends deadline for partners to improve their clients' security with unauthorised Azure AD tweaks Partners may be dragging the chain a little – perhaps you'd like to hurry them up? Channel14 Oct 2022 |
Alibaba Cloud reveals billion dollar 'ecosystem upgrade' It's mostly a channel program with a fancy name, plus more outposts Channel26 Sep 2022 | 1
Philippines decides outsourcers need incentives to stick around, after all Just three months ago senior bureaucrat said 'Tax perks are not that important to investors.' Contortions now in place to keep cash flowing Channel19 Sep 2022 | 4
Salesperson's tech dream delivered by ill-equipped consultant who charged for the inevitable fix Who,Me? ‘I had a sharp new suit and a misplaced sense of confidence’ – and made a costly mistake Channel05 Sep 2022 | 56
India's big four services giants bemoan rising labor costs Business is good at TCS, Wipro, Infosys and HCL – but margin pressure and staff attrition are big problems Channel25 Jul 2022 | 24
Microsoft postpones shift to New Commerce Experience subscriptions The whiff of rebellion among Cloud Solution Providers is getting stronger Channel29 Jun 2022 | 8
Lenovo to form venture with Hong Kong comms conglomerate PCCW Gains access to offshoring centers in Malaysia and Philippines Channel15 Jun 2022 | 2
Microsoft forgot to renew the certificate for its Windows Insider subdomain Visitors to insider.windows.com met with safety warning - how reassuring Channel10 Jun 2022 | 37
European tech businesses cool on China due to coronavirus lockdowns Oops. Beijing wants zero COVID, not zero foreign investment Channel06 May 2022 | 13
Ericsson pulls out of Russia 'indefinitely' to protest war in Ukraine Plus: AMD tells El Reg it stopped 'all technical, product support and marketing' in pariah state Channel11 Apr 2022 | 18
Capita offloads Microsoft licensing biz Trustmarque to private equity for £110m Remainder of Capita's Portfolio of unwanted businesses to be expunged by year end, says CEO Channel28 Jan 2022 | 1
Pakistan considers ten-year tax holiday for freelance techies Could clean up dispute over who collects tax and when, but unlikely to worry outsourcing rivals Channel25 Jan 2022 | 11
Renewal chasing as-a-service is now a thing – and vendors love it Third parties get some data, use it to send mails as if they were your reseller, and – phew! – you don't get calls from sales people Channel28 Oct 2021 | 21
Who are shortages good for? The channel! World's biggest distributor forecasts tech price hikes from January Canalys Forum 2021 Things not likely to improve until 2023 Channel15 Oct 2021 | 3
Windows what? PC makers have bigger things on their minds Canalys Forums Remember those days when OSes were the be-all and end-all? Channel08 Oct 2021 | 40
Raspberry Pi looks to set up African retail channel to make buying a mini computer there as easy as Pi High shipping costs barrier to access for many of continent’s inhabitants Channel06 Oct 2021 | 17
Japan's NTT Group to allow remote work for all 320,000 staff Ditching central offices in favour of over 250 regional facilities for a workforce twice the size of Microsoft's Channel29 Sep 2021 | 3
BRICS bloc deepens collaboration on ecommerce and selling services across borders Good news for consumers, exporters, and outsourcers Channel06 Sep 2021 | 4
Busy day in China: Xi Jinping announces tech-sharing, services export push and a bourse for startups Also banned telly shows from featuring men with an 'abnormal aesthetic' – basically the kind of chap you'd find in a boy band Channel03 Sep 2021 | 17
Telefónica's cloud limb slurps Cancom's UK&I biz to cash in on Brit enterprise tech market There's a tasty NHS contract in there Channel30 Jul 2021 |
Lockdown-induced gadgetry rush sent Dixons Carphone's online sales skywards – and repaid £73m of furlough wages But mobile biz continues to wane Channel30 Jun 2021 | 4
The great fire sale continues as Capita sells government joint venture Axelos for £380m It's the longest day of the year Channel21 Jun 2021 | 5
UK.gov finally proposes to police rogue umbrella companies but leaves questions unanswered Show me the money! say campaigners hoping to stamp out nefarious practices Channel10 Jun 2021 | 5
Microsoft's bricks-and-mortar retail operation set to return from the grave? Not quite From July you'll be able to swipe credit card for kit at 'Experience Centers' Channel09 Jun 2021 | 1
Massive tech-for-British-schoolkids cash pot up for grabs as UK education buyers prep £140m agreement It is Thursday and it's framework-tastic Channel03 Jun 2021 | 11
It's the UK contractor tax factor: IR35 outsiders gaining leverage in skills market, survey finds New tax rules see a hike in use of umbrella companies - another can of worms Channel02 Jun 2021 | 18
33 'unsustainably loss-making' Dixons Travel outlets set to be shuttered affecting 400 staff Electronics retailer 'confident' workers can be offered opportunities elsewhere in the business Channel28 Apr 2021 | 6
UK Home Office tenders £5m for a supplier to help it greenlight IT projects. Yes, you read that correctly Procurement raises questions over supplier creating its own sales pipeline within govt Channel19 Apr 2021 | 16
Fancy building to-spec PCs for the Bank of England, and more? A £46m end user support contract is up for grabs The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street needs help managing thousands of laptops, PCs and tablets Channel30 Oct 2020 | 17
Selling hardware on a pay-per-use or subscription model is a 'lie' created by marketing bods Canalys Forum 2020 Capex to opex, capex to opex, capex to opex... Stop. 'It's just not what people really want' Channel09 Oct 2020 | 82
Brit tax collector HMRC wants fireside chat with suppliers to discuss ways to spend the annual £900m IT budget Prising open that pork barrel again? Nah, it's never been closed Channel30 Sep 2020 | 3
Remember Entatech? UK liquidators are still trying to seize founder Jason Tsai's assets High Court hears of offshore assets, tax fraud, and freezing orders Channel24 Sep 2020 | 11
Reseller gives Brits Insight into value webcam shipments of the future-ture-ture-ture Updated Pull on your gold hoodie and Darth Vader breathing apparatus and take a trip with us to 2051 Channel18 Sep 2020 | 4
Ex-Dell distributor in Lebanon ignored ban on suing US tech giant. Now four directors have been sentenced to prison in the UK 18- and 9-month terms dished out for contempt of court Channel09 Jun 2020 | 47
Brit competition regulator will soon be able to seize rogue traders' domains – and even Amazon accounts Wide-ranging powers come into force in June Channel18 May 2020 | 26
Capita, Fujitsu and pals tuck into slices of £3bn London NHS framework What lots are in the public sector pork barrel? Hardware, software, cloud services, security... plus chatbots and blockchain Channel18 May 2020 | 17
Post-pandemic hard-sell under way: Resellers leaned on to convert free trial users into fully paid-up customers Eight weeks to turn ‘helping you enable remote work with Office 365 at this difficult time’ into cash Channel12 May 2020 | 6
Brit IT infrastructure giant Computacenter hits pause on shareholder dividends after furloughing 10% of staff Engineers, consultants can't visit client sites so home they go Channel23 Apr 2020 | 4
'Anything' related to remote working is a winner for Euro disties, but classic enterprise hardware? That's another story Official stats reach Vulture Towers Channel07 Apr 2020 | 19
Tech services biz Allvotec furloughing staff, asking remainder – including top brass – to take pay cut CEO talks of measures to combat expected sales slide due to pandemic Channel03 Apr 2020 | 5
Under pressure: K3 to put loss-making UK Microsoft Dynamics reseller biz into administration Updated AIM-listed biz says THAT virus meant it has little choice, will seek a buyer Channel01 Apr 2020 | 6
Softcat MD stepping down at reseller months after flogging £1.5m worth of stock Slips out door with 620,000 shares to enjoy a life less ordinary Channel25 Mar 2020 |
Thought you'd go online to buy better laptop for home working? Too bad, UK. So did everyone. Laptops, monitors and WLANs fly off shelves Eventually, 'customers will stop buying and start preserving capital' Channel20 Mar 2020 | 118
UK Carphone Warehouse shops set to sling their last phones, 2.9k redundancies hit high street, as Dixons closes all 531 'standalone' sites CW to live on as a counter in a Curry's, as CEO says: Mobile is 'currently holding back the whole business' Channel17 Mar 2020 | 22
Resellers facing 'months' of delays for orders to be fulfilled. IT gathers dust on docks as coronavirus-stricken China goes back to work SSDs, laptops, servers all hit in the struggle for stock Channel12 Mar 2020 | 52
'Up to 300' UK heads to roll at Brit IT services firm Allvotec, with 200 jobs offshored to Bulgaria in cost-cutting drive Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do... Channel11 Mar 2020 | 21
UK.gov lays out COVID-19 guidance as the tech supply chain considers its own Calm down now Channel03 Mar 2020 | 59
Aria Technology loses Court of Appeal bid over £750k VAT dispute Firm must pay HMRC's legal costs, rules judge Channel27 Feb 2020 | 17
AMD takes a bite out of Intel's PC market share across Europe amid microprocessor shortages, rising Ryzen Mmmm, these scraps are pretty darn meaty Channel21 Feb 2020 | 57
Capita unfurls new consulting arm. Hmm, what shall we call it? Reg's Logowatch team sad to report UK outsourcing baddie didn't get too creative Channel19 Dec 2019 | 52
Mmmm... fresh, delicious tenders: Forget G-Cloud, this £6.5bn Technology Products and Associated Services framework is where it's at Will no one think of the SMEs? Oh, actually some have made the grade Channel13 Dec 2019 |
David Phillips, godfather of UK tech distribution industry, dies aged 74 Obit Northamber founder passes after 'short illness' Channel09 Dec 2019 | 1
Ireland's B.ICONIC snaffles Stormfront to become largest Apple reseller in the UK May we suggest a rebrand? Channel06 Dec 2019 | 10
Getronics confirms – finally – that CEO has quit following HMRC VAT payment debacle Ailing services integrator pulls in more cash from backers to pay off debts, rebrands US MSP arm Channel20 Nov 2019 | 6
One of Blighty's most-loved charities hands £46m to one of Blighty's least-loved outsourcers I'll take the National Trust and Capita for 100, Alex Channel24 Oct 2019 | 47
Everything must go as school IT supplier Gaia Technologies' £5.7m debt burden revealed Firm £1m in arrears with single creditor and owes HMRC £886k Channel23 Oct 2019 | 20
Yay, Intel chip shortages should be over soon! Nope. Strap in, at least another quarter or two to go, say PC execs Canalys Channels Forum Chipzilla's keeping mum ... Channel18 Oct 2019 | 19
Getronics CEO on HMRC winding-up petition: An 'embarrassing' blip with cash in the wrong places Corporate expansionism to blame for issues, claims bossman Channel15 Oct 2019 | 22
John Lennon says hello. Hello, hello... as Cancom buys Novosco for £70m You know, co-founder of the Belfast-based reseller Channel14 Oct 2019 | 4
Swiss wheeze: Microsoft reseller titan SoftwareONE plots IPO on Zurich exchange If that floats your boat Channel14 Oct 2019 | 1