CLOUD & SOFTWARE MSP -bulletin e TECHNOLOGY RESELLER MAGAZINE I N PRI NT & ONLI NE IN PRINT & ONLINE SINCE 2016 SINCE 2016 Arrow Electronics Wins Check Point Software’s “Distributor of the Year 2025” at the EMEA Partner Awards 2025 Arrow Electronics today announced that it has been awarded Check Point Software’s Distributor of the Year 2025, at the Check Point Software EMEA Partner Awards 2025,held in Vienna. This recognition highlights Arrow’s leadership in delivering AIpowered, prevention-first cyber security outcomes across one of the world’s most dynamically evolving and highly targeted cyber regions. Arrow was recognised for delivering exceptional scale and consistency as Check Point’s largest pan EMEA distributor. Investments in ArrowSphere Cloud expanded reach, simplified consumption models, and created new channel partner opportunities. ArrowSphere Cloud is Arrow’s award-winning cloud management platform designed to support the design, delivery, and oversight of cloud services... Read the full article on Technology Reseller here. IONOS and Nextcloud launch sovereign office alternative IONOS and Nextcloud unveil IONOS Nextcloud Workspace, the sovereign, GDPR-compliant hub for collaboration, office tools, and AI. IONOS, one of Europe’s leading digitalisation partner and trusted cloud enabler, together with Nextcloud, the world’s most widely adopted privacy-compliant collaboration platform, today announced the launch of IONOS Nextcloud Workspace. The platform is a European alternative to offerings such as Microsoft 365 that meet the highest standards of data protection, security and digital sovereignty. Nextcloud’s office and collaboration platform is operated on IONOS’s certified sovereign cloud infrastructure in German data centres. IONOS Nextcloud Workspace is based on Nextcloud’s proven opensource technology and is aimed in particular at public institutions, medium-sized companies, and organisations with high... Read the full article on Technology Reseller here. 60 seconds with… Pete Hannah, Sales Chief of Object First, a provider of on-premises backup storage for Veeam users Pete Hannah has more than 30 years’ experience building and scaling go-tomarket organisations for technology vendors, distributors and resellers, including such well-known names as Netgear, TD SYNNEX and BT. He is founder of the Noima Consultancy and Level Up, and in September 2023 joined Object First to implement its GTM channel strategy in EMEA. In August 2024, he was appointed VP of Sales, Western Europe. Object First’s Ootbi appliances, standing for Out-of-the-Box-Immutability, protect organisations of all sizes from ransomware through a combination of superfast backups, instant recovery and Zero Access, which prevents anyone, even those with admin credentials, from altering or deleting backup data. Last year was the company’s second consecutive year of triple-digit growth. Highlights include a 183% year-on-year increase in global bookings for Ootbi appliances (up 515% in EMEA); a 193% year-onyear increase in customer numbers; a 215% year-on-year expansion of its partner community, with the recruitment of dozens of new partners including Softcat and Insight in the UK... Read the full article on Technology Reseller here. Pete Hannah
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