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At the recent Schneider Electric Innovation Summit in Barcelona, IT Reseller spoke with Kim Povlsen, Vice President & General Manager of Digital Services & Data Center Software, the group behind Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure IT cloud-based management platform and StruxureWare for Data Centers software suite, about the rise of managed services for infrastructure IT and the benefits this offers to the channel.

Blue Planet Networks, the rapidly emerging UK based ISP, has announced a major rebranding to mark its successful transition into a globally, established Internet Managed Service provider. The company is now trading under the name of ‘iceblue’.

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered the third revolution of the computer, after the first revolution of bringing computing to governments and big companies and the second one to the public via PC and smartphone. IoT aims at baking computing power into everything else via countless tiny chips, which will enable them to calculate, process information and decide, by gathering and analysing troves of data about the product, process and customers.

Information technology (IT) channel companies are increasing their involvement with emerging technologies and actively seeking new partnering opportunities as they strive to maintain their market relevance, according to new research from CompTIA, the trade association for the global technology industry.

SurreyIDEA, an innovative academy, claims to be the first of its kind in Europe, providing a novel and progressive learning experience that enables students to gain valuable skills in an interactive format free from prohibitive entry requirements solely based on academic qualifications. Now, the school is launching a high-tech programme to engage and inspire a younger demographic.

With new product lines of smart sensors, image-based scanners, vision technology and robot guidance, Datalogic is offering new solutions for digital automation. The new systems have been developed to support industry 4.0 concepts and are helping users to automatically control, process and track their operations along their production lines.

Schneider Electric has announced its collaboration with NetApp to deliver the pre-validated Optimized Edge for NetApp HCI solution, which is built on NetApp’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform and designed for enterprise, remote/branch offices, and small- to medium-sized business (SMB) spaces.

How oneM2M, the global Internet of Things (IoT) standard, can be used to support new and emerging use cases in the 5G era will be demonstrated at ETSI IoT Week 2019 this week, where the latest real-world IoT deployments across the industry will be showcased.

Virtual Instruments has become Virtana, a company focused on providing customers with robust AI-powered hybrid IT infrastructure management platforms for mission-critical workloads.

ReFirm Labs, provider of proactive IoT and firmware security solutions, has announced the Fall 2019 release of updates to its flagship Centrifuge Platform.