Recent Appointments

Harner to BigCommerce, Lenior to Samsiung

Rodney F. Chase named non-executive chairman of board of directors

SAP on Tuesday announced the first products based on its HANA in-memory database aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, including a new Edge edition of the software as well as HANA-powered analytics for the Business One ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite.

To the world at large, computers are scary machines that are impossible to understand, and programmers are the mysterious geniuses who know how to manipulate them even if they are never able to fix yours for whatever reason.

I just read an interesting article in Gizmag, an online technology newsletter, about an unreleased product called the SmartCap from Australian company EdanSafe. The SmartCap is worn as a cap and analyzes brainwaves to ascertain fatigue levels, one obvious use case being to monitor commercial drivers to reduce road accidents.

Ingram Micro Australia vice-president and managing director, Guy Freeland, will exit the distributor at the end of the year. His replacement is Ingram Micro’s New Zealand managing director, Jay Miley.

If Bill Gates leaving Microsoft is the end of an era, then Ray Ozzie's ascension is the beginning of a revolution designed to transform the company's business model as well as redefine corporate IT infrastructures and how end users access, share and interact with applications and data.

The changing of the guard at any distributor is always going to be news, but the announcement last week that Guy Freeland was exiting as vice-president and managing director of Ingram Micro could have ramifications right across the channel.