Charterhouse Voice and Data has acquired Check Point partner and cybersecurity MSP Pentesec.
Pentesec provides cybersecurity managed services, consultancy and training.
Charterhouse claims that Pentesec’s strong Check Point capabilities will complement its existing cybersecurity partnerships with Palo Alto and Rapid7.
The Pentesec acquisition will underpin a planned investment into a security operations centre offering, Charterhouse claims.
Italian software distributor specialising in delivering value-added services for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Achab, has set up shop in Reading.
Achab is bringing its distribution model to the UK with the opening of its Reading office to help win MSPs for the SME market.
The company is growing its list of vendor partners and is introducing two new solutions to the UK, Cameyo and Cyberfish.
Cyberfish, an anti-phishing solution, detects and blocks phishing emails from unknown sources in real-time. Designed for MSPs and SMEs, it operates automatically. Using patented technologies based on artificial intelligence and computer vision, and by simulating user behaviour, it provides up to ten times better detection compared to traditional anti-phishing systems.
Secure cloud services provider, Six Degrees, has today announced that it has become a Microsoft Azure Expert MSP. Six Degrees is one of only eight UK organisations to be awarded this accreditation.
Six Degrees ahas an Azure-aligned UK onshore Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC).
Six Degrees is today launching its new Beyond Cloud proposition, which it claims giving customers the most flexible, secure cloud services available so they can look beyond the day-to-day and focus on the future of their organisations.
Unified communications and compliance solutions TelcoSwitch has acquired the OneVoice cloud-based hosted telephony platform from Qunifi, the Worcester-based company, for an undisclosed sum.
The Qunifi OneVoice solution is an open-source cloud telephony platform with a particular focus around hospitality, and proprietary integration with Microsoft Teams.
As part of the acquisition the OneVoice base of resellers will also migrate to become TelcoSwitch channel partners.
Ingram Micro Cloud UK has announced a new partnership with Google Cloud.
Google Workspace is billed as a secure, easy to use business collaboration and productivity platform that incorporates a wide range of programs – including Gmail, Docs and Drive.
Ingram Micro Cloud UK said the addition brings greater choice to its partners and resellers and reinforces its commitment to delivering “the most robust ecosystem to build successful cloud businesses”.
Scott Murphy, Cloud Director at Ingram Micro Cloud UK said Google and Ingram were focused on providing resellers with the portfolio breadth they require to grow, with Ingram Micro Cloud being a key player in ensuring they reach their full market potential.
SSL certificate outfit Sectigo has a new global partner programme.
The firm’s Secure Partner Programme is being rolled out to its 1,200-strong channel base, accompanied by a portal that offers access to its university training resources and options to collaborate across the ecosystem.
The channel is being tiered on the basis of engagement level, with training offered to everyone. The vendor is making market development funds (MDF) available, along with partner pricing to make sure the most committed are rewarded accordingly.
Atos has struck what is says is a strategic partnership with Big Blue as part of a cunning plan to help enterprise customers across verticals optimise their business processes using AI.
Atos says this “industry-led” approach will see both companies develop joint offerings built on Atos’ vertical-focused solutions and service delivery capabilities.
In a joint statement, the pair said that clients can expect to have access to industry-specific automation solutions using AI and hybrid cloud technologies to enable digital acceleration and increase productivity and reduce costs” the €11.58 billion.
Digital identity management and web security solutions, Sectigo has launched a new Secure Partner Programme as part of its cunning plan to expand its partners.
Programme Partners gain benefits, including access to the new Sectigo Connect Partner Portal, which the outfit insists “advances their ability to build new capabilities, deliver more value to customers, drive higher profits, and accelerate growth in today’s dynamic cybersecurity market”.
In the new Secure Partner Programme, partners are tiered based on engagement level, so that organisations’ tier within the programme aligns with their business goals. All partners registered in the new programme receive access to advanced training and accreditation programmes to help them improve their sales and support effectiveness.
End-to-end device lifecycle solutions provider Brightstar has written a cheque for LucidCX, a provider of customer service management software and services.
The move adds tech support capabilities to Brightstar’s growing service portfolio, and the company said LucidCX’s technology, knowledge and capabilities will help clients drive significant value.
Rod Millar, Brightstar CEO said: “Brightstar is committed to delivering holistic solutions for today’s technology lifecycle. Lucid CX builds additional capabilities into Brightstar’s services, supporting our Device Protection and wider smart technology services, ensuring we deliver exceptional value and capabilities to our customers.”
Audiovisual distributor Midwich has managed to finish the second half of its fiscal year strongly.
An end-of-year trading update from the firm issued to investors gave details of how the past few months have gone, with November and December being particularly good.
Midwich is now expecting to report revenue in excess of £710 million for 2020 representing annual growth of four percent. Pre-tax profits should be around £14 million which is ahead of expectations.
Midwich said sales, before acquisitions were taken into account, were seven per cent lower in the second half of the year, compared with 2019. Because of the 22 percent drop in the first half, the overall decline will end up at 14 percent for the year.
The cybersecurity channel is set for a solid year ahead, according to the beancounters at analyst outfit Canalys.
The firm is forecasting a potential 10 per cent increase in worldwide spending on security in 2021 if everything goes as it is now.
In terms of product categories, Canalys is forecasting a 12.5 percent climb in web and email security, while vulnerability and security analytics will increase 11.0 percent. Growth in endpoint security will slow to 10.4 percent after a solid 2020.
Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) Group has sped up its customer-friendly app development, including a new online mortgage calculator that has seen conversions increase by 54 percent, by using OutSystems.
The UK’s third largest building society has made digitalisation a core part of its business strategy to build both customer-centric services and trust with its customers. In addition, YBS wanted to provide more choice for how customers accessed services, to help reduce inbound calls and wait times, as well as further improve the overall customer experience.
YBS chose OutSystems as its core development technology to build customer-focused apps faster. The first app, a new online mortgage calculator, was delivered in just three months.
Citrix Systems may buy work management platform Wrike for a reported $2 billion.
The virtualisation outfit could close a deal with the owners of Wrike, Vista Equity Partners, this week. This deal potentially adds another tool to Citrix’s arsenal as the firm aims to become a major player in the collaboration space.
Talks are reportedly going on with nothing finalised and discussions could yet collapse at any stage.
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google are killing off European Cloud provider according to new data from Synergy Research.
The European cloud market tripled since the beginning of 2017, hitting €5.9 billion in Q3 of 2020. But European cloud providers have seen market share decline from 26 percent to 16 percent.
WS, Google and Microsoft now account for two-thirds of the regional market, with the remainder of the market made up of smaller US and Asian providers, who are also losing market share.
Synergy also estimated that the full-year European cloud infrastructure services revenue for 2020 will be over €23 billion, a 31 percent increase on the previous year. IaaS and PaaS services makeup nearly 80 percent of that market and are growing much faster than the smaller hosted or managed private cloud segment, it revealed.
BT has been dragged into the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) over claims it overcharged more than 2.3 million residential, landline-only customers for eight years.
The case has been filed by Justin Le Patourel, a representative of CALL (Collective Action on Landlines), and seeks compensation for customers who are claimed to have been overcharged by BT for many years. If successful, the claim could result in compensation of between £200 and £500 for each affected customer, up to a total of an estimated £500 million, according to CALL.
The claim relates to regulator Ofcom’s 2017 finding that BT’s landline-only customers were getting poor value for money compared to customers who bought bundles of broadband, landline or pay-TV services.
The regulator found that the company had raised its prices many times since 2009, despite a constant decline in the cost of providing landline service to customers.
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