Manchester-based Avecto has significantly strengthened its channel offering of late
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APC by Schneider unveils global channels organisation
Supplier boosts support for uninterruptible power supply and related products
Autotask expands London office and is hiring
The workflow management specialist is offering up to £20,000 for job placement referrals
Fujitsu brings in Memset to help with HMRC contract
Memset’s hosting infrastructure is built entirely on open source software
M-Files opens Reading office to promote its EDM
Electronic document management is a growing UK market
SUSE expands partner programme for 64-bit ARM chips
For compute needs 'one size does not fit all' and ARM64 offers an efficiency advantage for certain workloads
Institute launches ‘minimum standard’ for security software
Products that meet the standard will be awarded the EICAR Seal of Quality
Centrify aids cloud app roll-outs with new partner tier
Through new partner category for national system integrators Centrify can drive more Office 365 deployments
Capita acquires Scottish IBM VAR Barrachd
The VAR is a specialist in business analytics and follows a number of other recent Capita acquisitions
Red Hat launches global cloud partner programme
The initiative aims to better support distributors, managed service providers and other partners
Alert Logic and partners join Amazon cloud programme
The move includes 2nd Watch, Cloudreach, Datapipe, DualSpark, Logicworks, Nimbo and Smart421
Xerox shows off new tools for SMB managed print services
They include Enhanced Managed Supplies Service, an easy way for partners to provide proactive supplies replenishment
Avnet offers exclusive Hitachi business solutions training
Hyperconverged infrastructure, cloud, big data analytics and mobility are covered
Wick Hill gets equity investment to aid EMEA expansion
Equity firm has made a 'significant investment' in the VAD
Black Duck expands open source channel programme
The company has named Kevin Bland as director of channels and alliances to build an ecosystem of strategic partners
Zynstra teams with Phoenix for school IT offering
Zynstra’s hybrid cloud technology is designed to meet the demands of modern day students
StorMagic expands partner programme for SDS
StorMagic supports over 120 channel partners across the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific
Zscaler ‘plan’ to leave email security market slammed
Rival email and web security firm AppRiver has stepped into the fray
Avnet brings Blue Medora cloud management to EMEA
Avnet is the first distributor to offer Blue Medora’s solutions to customers in Europe
Networks First pops corks to record year
Sales were up 17 percent last year, increasing to £11.4 million
IBM and Box in enterprise cloud data alliance
The companies plan to develop new solutions targeted across industries and professions
Pure Storage widens flash partner programme
The move will however potentially lead to less support revenues going to partners not providing any of the infrastructure stack
Blackberry floats into the HP Helion cloud
BES12 is a command and control platform that manages all mobile devices across iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry operating systems
Autotask hosts London IT service management event
It takes place on the 15 July at the Royal Institution in London, and is expected to attract more than 150 leading IT service providers
SynApps sets up health content management practice
In the past six months, four English NHS trusts have committed to work with SynApps’ VNA (Vendor Neutral Archive) content management system
Software Box joins forces with Sinclair Voicenet on PCI DSS
The two companies will jointly explore new opportunities throughout the public sector for Sinclair's SmartVoice Protect offering
Half of company data centres suffer from natural disasters
In the last 10 years, 50 percent asked had experienced disruption to their data centre due to seismic activity or other natural disasters
Nuvola Distribution signs SDN pioneer Talari
Talari helps organisations build smart networks that proactively manage capacity, quality and performance across all types of networks
Toshiba gives business display rewards for Rugby World Cup
Toshiba’s business display resellers simply need to track sales of selected TD-E, TD-Z and TD-X models for the period up to 31 July 2015
Unitrends adopts 100 percent channel sales model
In the third quarter Unitrends will unveil a completely new channel partner programme, custom built from the ground up, said the company
