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AI and automation can rescue overworked IT generalists

Steve Petryschuk, Director, Product & Market Strategy in Product Management, Auvik, discusses the findings of the company’s recent 2025 IT Report, entitled: “Why IT is long on challenges but short on time,” which reveals that stress and burnout are approaching all-time highs amidst the Baby Boomer retirement era, underscoring the critical need for AI and automation solutions and giving rise to the IT generalist. Steve also highlights some recent innovations added to Auvik’s IT Operations platform.

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GenAI momentum drives new era of application and infrastructure modernisation

Lee Caswell, SVP, Product and Solutions Marketing at Nutanix, discusses the findings of its seventh annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures global enterprise progress with cloud adoption. This year's report sheds light on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) adoption, investment priorities, and benefits along with key challenges organisations face to meet the demands of these emerging workloads.

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WOMEN IN IT – Jenny Briant, Academy Operations Director, Ten10 Academy

Jenny Briant, Academy Operations Director at the Ten10 Academy, shares valuable insights on empowering women in tech and promoting inclusive workplaces – including building a career in tech without a traditional tech background; the importance of DEI representation in AI and tech leadership; AI in recruitment: the need for human oversight; empowering women and Gen Z in tech; and just why a well-crafted DEI strategy can bring so many benefits to an organisation when it comes to both employee and customer interactions.

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Logpoint plans to lead on European threat detection

Frank Koelmel, CRO at Logpoint, discusses the new partner program which sees the company amplifying its strategic focus on Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), opening opportunities for MSSPs to generate pipeline and go to market with new services. In particular, the new program helps MSSPs with business development, reliable detection technology, uplevelled expertise and elevated market value.

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Fivetran’s enhanced Partner Program targets AI-focused data infrastructure opportunities

Tony Kelly, Director of Alliances, EMEA at Fivetran, explains what Fivetran’s enhanced partner programme means – higher incentives via the four partner tiers, deeper go to market collaboration and expanded technical enablement - and discusses how the ecosystem is collaborating to help businesses unify data in the cloud, modernise their infrastructure and power AI-driven decision-making.

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Extreme Networks’ Platform ONE delivers consumption-based billing model for MSPs

Dan Dulac, Extreme Networks’ VP of Solutions Strategy, discusses the recently launched Extreme Platform ONE™ for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Built on a unique AI-driven multi-tenant architecture, consumption-based billing, and poolable licensing, the new solution is designed to deliver unmatched flexibility, simplicity, and cost savings, enabling MSPs to manage customers at scale.

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A private solution to a public cloud ‘problem’
  • Posted on 5th April 2025 in by Phil Alsop

Mike Hoy, CTO, Pulsant, outlines some of the end user uncertainties related to cloud - discussing network connectivity, data sovereignty and data migration concerns. With AI set to ask further cloud questions, Mike explains how Pulsant’s recently launched Pulsant Private Cloud solution could just be the answer for many UK-based organisations, as well as how the planned acquisition of two further UK data centres enhances the company’s platformEDGE strategy.

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Channel partners eye cloud growth but need to upskill

Aaron Rees, Senior Vice President, AWS Business at Westcon-Comstor and CEO, Rebura discusses how the channel is poised to grasp the huge growth opportunities presented by the cloud market, but faces certain gaps around skills, capabilities and expertise. He also explains how distributors can support, enable and empower partners in pursuit of these aims by harnessing and deploying their own cloud expertise.

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Enterprises waste millions on underused tech, struggle to harness AI efficiencies

Vivek Behl, Vice President, Strategy at WalkMe, discusses the findings of the company’s annual report, The State of Digital Adoption 2025, Special AI Edition. This year’s report focuses on AI adoption in the enterprise and highlights an alarming disconnect - while 79% of executives express confidence in meeting their AI transformation goals, only 28% of employees feel adequately trained and only 25% report being able to use AI to work more efficiently.

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Growth is on the Horizon

John Paglicua, President and CEO at N-able, discusses the findings of the recently published second annual MSP Horizons Report in partnership with leading channel analyst firm, Canalys. The report reveals a sharp projected uptick for managed services growth driven by a number of key factors, including the maturity of cybersecurity services and the increasingly successful “MSP 3.0” model underscoring the importance of focusing on long-term opportunities vs. short-term wins to drive both scalability and profitability. John covers other key focus areas for MSPs including AI, risk management and compliance, cloud and vertical specialisation.

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How to avoid costly backup storage mistakes

Bill Andrews, ExaGrid President and CEO, addresses many of the misconceptions around the cost of different backup storage options, with many end users struggling to understand the long-term costs associated with CAPEX, Lease, Subscription, Consumption and the Public Cloud models. While most end users are embracing a hybrid IT model, where cost is one important factor among others (such as flexibility, scalability, security, speed of deployment and compliance), Bill cautions that, without a true understanding of backup storage lifecycle costs as part of their overall decision-making process, end users may well make a very expensive mistake. He also gives a ‘bonus’ preview of what to expect from ExaGrid during 2025.

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Five transformative trends set to shape enterprise AI

Emma Irwin, Director of Sales Engineering at Dataiku, the company’s recently published annual trends report, “5 GenAI Trends for 2025: Beware the AI Agent Reckoning,” highlighting five transformative trends that will shape the enterprise AI landscape. The report focuses on the next frontier of generative AI (GenAI): the game-changing rise of AI agents and their potential to deliver a transformative impact on enterprises worldwide. Topics covered include AI investment and ROI, data privacy and governance, the LLM ‘mess’ and upskilling the workforce.

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VAST Data has teamed up with CoreWeave in a $1.17 billion agreement to advance AI cloud infrastructure using the VAST AI Operating System.
Globant partners with LALIGA to integrate AI, reshaping operations and innovation in European football.
SentinelOne partners with AWS to enhance AI security measures, ensuring robust protection across data, applications, and infrastructure.
AWS unveils Fastnet, a game-changing cable system enhancing connectivity between the US and Ireland, fortifying cloud computing and AI capabilities.

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