Ed Holden, chief editor of IT Reseller, attended distributor Varlink Ltd.'s recent Meet the Manufacturer event at Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, and spoke with the company's founder & CEO Mike Pullon about recent developments, including the newly introduced Sourced By Varlink initiative.
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Businesses reveal their top motivations for switching to IP Voice services
Feb 16, 2017
TalkTalk Business has announced the results of its first survey into the UK business adoption of IP Voice services.
Security concerns holding back innovation, finds Claranet
Feb 02, 2017
Research has found that UK IT departments are some of the most likely in Europe to identify security and compliance as the biggest challenge they are currently facing and, as a result, they are also some of the most likely to host their applications internally.
Blue Yonder finds that 81% of shoppers are unable to get what they want in store
Jan 31, 2017
An international survey of 4,000 consumers from Blue Yonder, a cloud-based provider of predictive applications for retail, has revealed that shopping experiences both online and instore are not meeting the customer expectation of purchasing goods anytime, anywhere.
A golden opportunity for IT resellers; small businesses seek assistance to protect people, premises and assets
Jan 26, 2017
Yasin Miah, Small Business Account Manager at Axis Communications, discusses why advances in IP-enabled technology are opening up new possibilities for IT resellers looking to expand their offering
Five trends in IT and digital communications in 2017
Jan 26, 2017
Continued digitisation of documentation and mobile workforces. But also continued strong growth for Push to Talk in areas such as security, crisis, logistics and healthcare. GroupTalks CEO Magnus Hedberg writes about what he believes are the strongest trends in IT and digital communications in 2017.
SMEs must better understand the cyber security threat in 2017, says Streamwire
Jan 26, 2017
The proliferation and use of devices such as personal smart phones and tablets at work, commonly called bring your own device (BYOD), is one the biggest cybersecurity threats faced by SMEs, according to Kevin Timms, COO and co-founder of IT services aggregator, Streamwire.
Augmented reality could add £1bn to UK’s retail market
Jan 19, 2017
The UK's retail market could be boosted by as much as £1bn a year, if consumers were given access to visualisation technology that allowed them to virtually place products in their own homes before committing to costly purchases, research has found.
Research reveals worrying lack of cyber security among UK manufacturing organisations, with over half lacking a digital brand protection plan
Jan 18, 2017
Research from RiskIQ on the state of digital risk management in large, UK organisations, reveals that while 85 percent of C-Suite and senior managers in the manufacturing industry are concerned about the vulnerability of their websites, mobile applications and social media accounts to cyber attack and impersonation, half (52 percent) do not have a digital brand protection programme or team in place.
HID Global predicts top trends for 2017 in the identity technology industry
Jan 12, 2017
HID Global, provider of identity solutions, forecasts a shift in the use of identity technology that will lead to increased adoption of mobile devices and the latest smart card technology, a greater emphasis and reliance on the cloud, and a radical new way of thinking of trust in smart environments and Internet of Things (IoT).
