VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Dimension Data has extended the company’s protection from ransomware, phishing attacks, bot networks, and all types of malicious software, with Cisco Umbrella, the Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) in the cloud. The decision to incorporate Cisco Umbrella follows the company’s firsthand experience protecting its own 28,000 employees and addresses its clients’ requirement to support an increasingly mobile workforce.  Cisco Umbrella is a cloud security platform that provides the first line of defense against threats on the internet.  “In today’s expanding threat landscape, it is critical to have powerful security tools that effectively support mobility and cloud. With Cisco Umbrella, we are able to proactively stop threats on any mobile device before they happen with a secure solution that is easily integrated with existing infrastructure,” said Chris Panzeca, Senior Director, Global Strategic Partner Sales, .... Read More

Dimension Data has signed an agreement with SAP to offer partner-managed cloud for the SAP Hybris Commerce solution in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region. Dimension Data will offer an affordable, ready-to-use, subscription-based offering, Dimension Data Cloud Services for SAP Hybris Commerce ,  off its Managed Cloud Platform, enabling clients to access the software quickly and easily without the need for upfront infrastructure costs associated with on-premise software deployments. This way, enterprises can accelerate their digital commerce journey and benefit from a holistic omni-channel commerce platform available on a SaaS model. This new solution offers a number of clear advantages over existing approaches.... Read more

Blue Coat Systems has announced it has signed a worldwide agreement with Dimension Data   to deliver its global managed cloud web security service. Dimension Data plans to roll out this new offering worldwide beginning in the first quarter of 2016. Combining Blue Coat’s award-winning Cloud Generation Web Gateway with Dimension Data’s global managed security services portfolio provides customers with real-time threat protection – all without the need for on-site equipment. This new offering also helps organizations deploy new secure, cost-effective cloud service and web applications. In addition, customers are able to enforce consistent global security policies across wired, roaming, and mobile environments... Read more

Dimension Data has signed a global partnership with fellow NTT Group company, Arkadin, to deliver Cisco’s WebEx Cloud Connected Audio (CCA-SP) platform. Dimension Data is the first global non-telco or conferencing service provider to offer this solution worldwide, further positioning Dimension Data as the global market leader in the conferencing space. “Cisco’s WebEx Cloud Connected Audio (CCA-SP) platform enables an optimal WebEx experience via quality of service connections to Cisco’s global WebEx Cloud. Many service providers protect their underlying investment bases, which stifles the organisation’s ability to unify the user experience, reduce cost and risk of delivery, and accelerate innovation. The partnership with Arkadin delivers another tool that the NTT group can deliver to enable our clients to embark on a transformation journey on their terms by bringing together their communications tower silos into a unified user strategy – and quickly,” explains Ian Heard, Dimension...

Dimension Data and EMC announced the Catalyst Alliance, a strategic market development initiative designed to speed the adoption of hybrid cloud as a platform for transformation for the mid-size enterprise. They plan to deliver clients comprehensive solutions that span private cloud on or off premises, public and hybrid cloud including advanced managed services for storage. Catalyst Alliance solutions feature flexible consumption based pricing models on storage, cloud and managed services. To ensure client success, a dedicated team of sales, technical and marketing specialists from Dimension Data and EMC will align client workloads and applications to the best solutions... Read more

Dimension Data has completed its big data analytics and digital delivery platform from which the company will deliver real-time information on individual riders for the first time in the history of professional cycling. This major innovation was made possible by Amaury Sport Organization (ASO) in partnership with the 22 teams participating in the 2015 Tour de France. Highly accurate data will be collected through the use of live trackers under the saddle of each rider. Dimension Data will then process and analyze the data, and make it available to cycling fans, commentators, broadcasters and the media. dimension data logo Dimension Data set to deliver Big Data Analytics & Digital Delivery for Tour de FranceWhen the Tour de France begins on Saturday, the viewing public around the world will be able to follow all 198 riders in 22 teams real-time, and be able to track the speed at which each cyclist is riding, exactly where he’s positioned in the race in relation to other cycli...

According to Dimension Data’s annual Network Barometer Report, the remote monitoring and automated management reduces the time to troubleshoot faulty networking devices by a massive 75%. Consequently, it takes 32% less time to repair such devices than those not managed in this way. Furthermore, this year’s research again shows a strong correlation between the failures caused by devices and their lifecycle stage. According to the report, networks have continued to age for the fifth consecutive year, making 53% of the over 70,000 technology devices that were analyzed either ageing or obsolete – up by two percentage points since last year. There’s also been a slight drop in the percentage of obsolete devices – down to 9% from last year’s 11% – while the percentage of ageing devices has increased by four points. The percentage of the current devices analyzed is at its lowest in three years. The research looked at corporate networks in organizations of all sizes and all industry sect...

Dimension Data and NTT DATA have jointly announced a new set of end-to-end services that help clients leverage the agility and costs advantages of moving their SAP applications to the cloud. The new services combine Dimension Data’s SAP Cloud certified data centers with NTT DATA’s extensive implementation, migration and application management services, providing clients with deep expertise and a variety of options as they consider a cloud-based solution for their enterprise applications. Available in 16 data center locations around the world, Dimension Data’s Managed Cloud Platform (MCP) provides a comprehensive set of services to support SAP applications, and is certified by SAP for cloud, hosting and SAP HANA. The new services provide clients with a hybrid model that allows SAP to run on Dimension Data’s private MCP within the client’s data center, and, at the same time, take advantage of its off-premise, shared public MCP for pre-production tasks, resulting in greater efficie...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   According to the latest announcement,  Dimension Data  has acquired certain subsidiaries of  NextiraOne  for over 43,000 private and public sector clients throughout Europe. Effective immediately, the two-part transaction will see Dimension Data acquire NextiraOne’s businesses and its 1,850 permanent employees in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom. Dimension Data has also undertaken to acquire NextiraOne’s operations in France and Italy in mid-2015, subject to the achievement of certain performance conditions. Dimension Data has not disclosed what it paid for NextiraOne. Brett Dawson, CEO, Dimension Data , said, “Last year, the Group announced that it will double its revenue over the next five years from US$6 billion to US$12 billion. We tripled our business in the last 10 years, and now we are...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)  and  Dimension Data  have jointly announced the launch of their Enterprise Cloud Services in India. Based on Dimension Data's Managed Cloud Platform  (MCP), BSNL forays into the Enterprise Cloud services space through its Internet Data Centers (IDCs). Based on a standardized architecture, the MCP offers enterprises the advantage of being able to support public, private and hybrid cloud models. All MCPs are enterprise-ready, offering multiple layers of security, administrative controls, highest availability SLAs, 24/7 phone support and integrated management capabilities. R. K. Upadhyay, Chairman & Managing Director, BSNL , said, "The IDC and Cloud Services have not only enabled us to build and add new strategic capabilities to our portfolio, but it has also benefited our clients who can leverage our flexible sourcing options or simply host their entire IT assets within o...