Market & StrategyNews Global smartphone shipments fall 20 per cent in third quarter Smartphone makers shipped 254.7 million devices globally in Q3 2026, down 20 per cent year on year. Higher prices hit emerging markets and smaller trade partners hardest. 2 November 2026
Market & StrategyNews Research: smaller businesses lag behind in AI adoption De Nederlandsche Bank sees clear differences in AI use between large firms and SMEs. The Dutch central bank says smaller businesses often lack time and expertise. 2 November 2026
Market & StrategyNews Arrow launches managed storage services for NetApp Keystone Arrow is launching managed storage services for NetApp Keystone worldwide, enabling channel partners to deliver Storage-as-a-Service with lifecycle management, monitoring and a single point of contact. 2 November 2026
Market & StrategyNews Orange Cyberdefense becomes Mistral AI design partner for cybersecurity Orange Cyberdefense gains early access to a cybersecurity variant of Mistral Large 4. The company will use the model for pentests and incident investigation, on European infrastructure. 2 November 2026
Market & StrategyNews KPN acquires Delft-based communications software provider Xelion KPN is acquiring Delft-based Xelion, developer of a communications platform for calling, chat, video calling and customer contact. Xelion, which sells through partners, remains independent within KPN. 30 October 2026
Market & StrategyNews Cisco revamps partner programme and opens up Cisco IQ Cisco raises the incentives in its 360 Partner Program and makes Cisco IQ generally available to partners. MSPs gain access to network data from customer environments via APIs. 28 October 2026
Market & StrategyNews Check Point launches Firewall-as-a-Subscription with three-year term Check Point bundles firewalls, threat prevention, cloud management and support into one subscription without upfront hardware investment. Customers can scale up during the three-year term, then refresh hardware. 28 October 2026
Market & StrategyNews ESET adds AI security features to HOME and Small Business Security ESET is adding AI security, screen protection and web control to its consumer and small business products. New features check chatbot links, scripts and AI-agent actions. 28 October 2026
Market & StrategyNews Westcon-Comstor launches Partner Growth Circle with Palo Alto Networks Westcon-Comstor and Palo Alto Networks are introducing a growth programme for selected EMEA partners. Participants draw up joint business plans and receive support and marketing funds for successful execution. 28 October 2026
Market & StrategyNews Nutanix brings Government Cloud Clusters to AWS European Sovereign Cloud Nutanix is making its Government Cloud Clusters available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Customers run the platform on dedicated nodes within their own VPC. 27 October 2026
