Cyber protection outfit Acronis has announced a partnership with EveryCloud.
EveryCloud will now be able to provide the family of cyber protection offerings to its business customers, it said.
The offerings cover backup, disaster recovery, AI-enhanced anti-malware, endpoint security and management tools, file sync and share, as well as blockchain-based file notarisation and e-signature services – managed from a single console.
Camera extension outfit Sound Control Technologies (SCT) has appointed CUK Group to distribute its products in the UK. Distribution was previously handled by ScanSource.
The addition of SCT to the CUK Group portfolio significantly strengthens the company’s video products offering which has grown through the recent addition of several brands and the purchase of York-based distributor, Tukans, the company claimed.
Employers across the United Kingdom accelerated their search for information technology (IT) workers to close out 2020, according to a new report from CompTIA.
The CompTIA UK IT Employment Snapshot reveals that job postings for core IT positions totalled 198,805 in the first quarter of 2020. That was an increase of more than 32,000 from the third quarter and nearly equal to the pre-pandemic number in the first quarter.
Distributors did rather well last year and it is predicted that the momentum will keep going this year, according to beancounters at Context.
The analyst house noted that week three of 2021 saw distribution bringing in revenues of €1.8 billion for the second week in a row.
Last week, Context forecast that the channel would enjoy year-on-year growth of between six to 12 percent this quarter. The firm has charted some concerns about shortages, but overall the sense of optimism across the distribution channel has continued to be high as the first few weeks of 2021 have progressed.
The UK has been a bit more sluggish, although marginally behind the position it was in back in the first few weeks of 2019. The government’s move to get more laptops into the hands of schools has driven down prices, which has had a hit on revenues, given that is the most in-demand technology at the moment.
MLL Telecom has been awarded a seven-year contract by The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT) to provide a High Speed Broadband Service as well as centrally managed firewall and content filtering.
TKAT is one of the largest Multi-Academy Trusts in the South East of England with 45 Primary, Special and Secondary Academies in East Sussex, Essex, Hampshire, Kent/Bromley/Bexley, Surrey and West Sussex.
The contract follows a competitive tender process under the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) Education Technology Framework Agreement, RM6103 Lot 3 Broadband Services in response to TKAT’s requirement to centralise, standardise and upgrade the delivery of Broadband Services across the Trust, which included firewall and filtering solutions.
The continuing pandemic has created a series of emergencies for UK manufacturers according to research conducted by the Ponemon Institute and commissioned by Keeper Security.
A combination of rapidly implemented remote working, together with reduced staffing, closures and supply chain disruption led to lost revenue and productivity, with security neglected as business leaders sought to fight the most visibly pressing issues first.
More than half of manufacturing firms experienced a cyberattack in 2020, with 37 percent saying the conditions created through COVID-19 made the attacks possible.
Canon Europe’s latest Insight report, reveals that less than 20 percent of print service providers (PSPs) are seen as fulfilling customer needs and more than 80 percent of customers feel their partners need to provide more creative input.
The report, with the catchy title “Creating customer value” said the majority want their print partners to be more consultative and to be comfortable combining print with digital.
Prospects for managed service providers (MSPs) this year appear to be rising across a wide range of potential customers according to a new survey.
A survey of 1,200 SMB and midmarket business leaders conducted by cloud data recovery specialist Infrascale suggests that the need for greater security is pushing organisations toward MSPs regardless of some recent high-profile breaches involving managed services.
Business executives in the education (44 percent), healthcare (51 percent), and manufacturing (53 percent) sectors cited the need for increased security as their top reason for selecting an MSP. Security and reduced costs (46 percent) tied as the top reason among e-commerce retailers, while finance industry executives cited reduced costs (57 percent) as their top reason.
The UK’s third digital infrastructure platform, CityFibre, and wholesale-only network provider Virtual1 have announced a collaborative partnership to serve the UK connectivity channel with full-fibre business services.
Apparently, Virtual1 is enabling its partners to access CityFibre’s differentiated business Ethernet infrastructure in its full-fibre towns and cities across the UK from February; while CityFibre leverages Virtual1’s national network to deliver fibre options beyond its own full-fibre footprint to provide ‘off-net’ choice to its partners.
Cloud monitoring outfit LogicMonitor has announced a partnership with Fusion Global Business Solutions (Fusion GBS), a specialist in delivering measured outcomes for enterprise customers with AI-powered service management and operations.
Fusion joins a group of resellers, systems integrators, managed service providers (MSPs) and technology integrators within the LogicMonitor Partner Network.
Fusion GBS CEO John Mohan said: “The extraordinary strain organisations are currently experiencing in their IT environments calls for a market-leading platform like LogicMonitor to provide insights and expedite digital transformation. We chose to partner with LogicMonitor because of its robust AIOps functionality, end-to-end visibility, and user-friendly reporting.”
Dell has tarted up its partner programme and increased the rewards for those that cross and “upsell” more of its portfolio.
Dell also suggested that more changes were coming, most have been informed by feedback from the channel community, and the firm’s theme of the year is “Together, we stop at nothing”.
The annual update to partners also gave Dell Technologies’ global channel chief Rola Dagher, who took up the role six months ago, a chance to thank partners for their efforts during the last 12 months in a year dominated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Dagher said that he had been watching the amazing work during the pandemic and the pace of digital transformation, and how it’s accelerating beyond anything he imagined.
Tech Data has signed a pan-European agreement to offer stuff from Komprise, a company specialising in analytics-driven data management as a service.
Komprise Intelligent Data Management solutions lets people handle large volumes of unstructured data and easily analyse, mobilise, and access the right file and object data across clouds and hybrid IT environments, it is claimed.
Tech Data said the agreement comes when enterprise IT teams are already straining to do more with less, and the complexity of the data under management is exploding as they now have to work across multiple clouds and storage vendors. Komprise Intelligent Data Management is supporting enterprise IT organisations to migrate large workloads or move data across storage classes and tiers and optimise costs.
A couple of firms has teamed up to advise organisations how to avoid getting into trouble with hackers, gangsters and hostile countries interfering in their business and their peace of mind.
A Mastercard company, Risk Recon, and partner CyberGRX will share data with each other. CyberGRX is joining the Risk R network.
The companies both think that it is time organisations pull up their socks because they are not keeping up with latest developments in the cyber security landscape.They have introduced a widget which allows customers to dig deep into information that will let their customers feel more secure.
Avast is teaming up with Westcoast to distribute its full portfolio of on-premise professional antivirus software.
Westcoast is the distie for Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and other reseller partners.
The deal, signed in January 2021, is the largest regional distribution contract in Avast’s history and signals the company’s intent to help create a safe, private, modern-day workplace in our ‘new normal’ for UK businesses and their customers, it’s said.
Macro 4, a division of UNICOM Global, and Charta Porta, a value-added consultancy which specialises in document automation technologies has signed a deal which marries AI-driven Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Macro 4’s enterprise information management (EIM) suite.
The idea is to create an automated answer to handling the influx of inbound email, SMS, social media and other digital correspondence that overwhelms many businesses.
Macro 4 thinks that by automating slow, manual processing, the solution can supercharge response rates, boost customer service and enhance the customer experience while driving back-office efficiencies. Personal or sensitive data within inbound correspondence is automatically identified, allowing the correct retention, security and access rights to be applied to individual messages, complete with data redaction, in line with data privacy regulations.
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