Doug Woodburn

2 days ago | itchanneloxygen.com | Doug Woodburn

Network Group is aiming to banish its reputation of being mainly the preserve of MDs, its Chairman said as he unveiled plans to double its membership. The part peer group, part buying consortium currently has close to 90 MSP and reseller members. Under a new three-year growth strategy, the member-run outfit is aiming to boost that to 150-200, Chairman Michael Morgan told IT Channel Oxygen.

3 days ago | itchanneloxygen.com | Doug Woodburn

Transputec has thrown its hat into the agentic AI ring by launching a dedicated division it hopes will be generating £2m-£3m revenues within a year. The £25m-revenue, London-based MSP has a track record of spinning off products it has developed in-house, notably with ‘Neo’ and ‘Crises Control’. Talking to IT Channel Oxygen, Transputec CEO Sonny Sehgal indicated that its new ‘Kuhnic’ AI division could be its next carve out.

4 days ago | itchanneloxygen.com | Doug Woodburn

Bytes Technology Group has “a very ambitious growth target for the next few years and is planning accordingly”. That’s the message of its CEO Sam Mudd, who was speaking to IT Channel Oxygen this morning following the publication of full-year results confirming the LSE-listed software reseller’s top line has broken through £2bn. In its year to 29 February 2025, BTG saw GII power up 15.2% to £2.1bn, with GII growth by our calculations accelerating from 13.7% to 15.8% half-on-half.

5 days ago | itchanneloxygen.com | Doug Woodburn

The CEOs of two of Microsoft’s largest UK partners have applauded the latest Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) changes, saying they will help reward partners who invest while penalising those using Microsoft as a “loss leader” on shallow engagements. Microsoft last week raised the authorisation requirements for its CSP partners while adding a raft of goodies to help them “drive more renewals and upgrades, retain customers, upsell, and scale their businesses”.

1 week ago | itchanneloxygen.com | Doug Woodburn

Acquiring CSI thrusts Park Place Technologies to the “top of the food chain”, one of its top execs has claimed. Ohio-based datacentre support giant Park Place on Tuesday grabbed £50m-revenue UK IBM partner CSI in what it billed as the second-most significant deal in its history (behind only its 2020 purchase of similar-sized peer Curvature).