Newbury based Gamma has achieved a 20% hike in gross profits with EBITDA up to £17.2m.

Announcing its financial results for 2013 the channel only network operator claims the following set of encouraging headline figures:

Arrow bounced back in Q2 with the European acquisition of COMPUTERLINKS helping to keep its growth positive. Second quarter sales of $5.7 billion were above the midpoint of guidance and overall and adjusted for the impact of acquisitions and changes in foreign currencies, total sales increased 1% year-over-year.

Piers Linney, co-CEO of Outsourcery, has joined the Cabinet Office SME Panel, which advises on small and medium business issues.

The opportunity for IT resellers to adopt cloud telephony and generate new voice revenues has never been greater, according to a study by NCONNECT.

60% of survey respondents said they would take advantage of cloud telephony by adding it to existing customer offerings.

Telit Wireless Solutions, provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) modules, services and solutions has joined the Telefonica M2M Channel Partner Programme.

Under the terms of the deal, Telit will extend its value added services portfolio by adding Telefonica's connectivity services. The new partnership is aimed to reach to M2m customers across Europe and Latin America.

Software defined networking is coming, but Europe may take two years to catch up with the size of US deployments, claims Dr Clifford Grossner, Directing Analyst for Data Centre, Cloud, and SDN at Infonetics Research.

"Software defined networking (SDN) spells opportunity for existing and new vendors, and the time to act is now," he said.

Red Box Recorders has secured a global contract with Tradition, said too one of the world's leading brokers.

Under the terms of the deal Red Box Recorders will be responsible for recording over 8,000 channels of communications throughout the Americas and the UK.

Derby-based Node4 is opening the doors of its Pride Park site to local businesses on 7th August to mark its 10th anniversary and showcase its capabilities to local firms.

Andrew Gilbert, Managing Director, said: "As the East Midlands continues to thrive as a business hub, having a Data Centre to service the local economy provides an infrastructure for growth.

JMC IT has been awarded an annual contract to provide its 24/7 SupportCare Active System Monitoring Service and a new private cloud network to building products distributor Magden.
 

Black Box Network Services UK has achieved Premier Partner Certification from Cisco.

To earn Premier Certification, Black Box Network Services had to meet set standards for networking competency, service, support and customer satisfaction.