01732 759725 12 BULLETIN Trend Micro empowers partners to grow Trend Micro has announced an extension to its partner programme and launched a new offering designed to empower MSSPs, service partners and pure-play managed detection and response (MDR) companies to build or grow their MDR and SOC-as-a-service offerings. Trend Vision One for Service Providers provides turnkey threat detection and response with extended SOAR capabilities built for managed security service partners, offering multi-tenant SOC capabilities and hundreds of third-party integrations across the IT environment and with other security vendors. Partners who sign up will receive benefits including white-glove onboarding and enablement, leveraging Trend's industry knowhow working with hundreds of SOCs to help partners accelerate adoption and delivery of SOCaaS and MDR. Highly competitive pricing to allow new and existing MSSPs to penetrate the market quicker. Choice of partnership, which means partners can choose the partnership right for their business: fully managed MDR or SOCaaS or API integration to offer co-managed services for ‘bring your own technology’ clients, where MSSPs help configure and manage Trend SOAR solution deployed on customers' premises. www.TrendMicro.com Global strategic partnership Cisco and Nutanix have forged a global strategic partnership to accelerate hybrid multi-cloud deployments by offering the industry’s most complete hyperconverged solution for IT modernisation and business transformation. “Customers are asking for solutions that are simple, sustainable, and future-ready,” said Jeremy Foster, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Compute. “This partnership answers with a complete solution spanning virtual compute, networking and storage across customer data centres and public clouds. By combining Cisco’s SaaSmanaged compute portfolio with Nutanix’s cloud platform software, we can help customers develop a balanced approach to power modern workloads on-premise and in the cloud." The new offering integrates Cisco’s SaaS-managed compute and networking infrastructure (Cisco Unified Computing System with Cisco Intersight) with the Nutanix Cloud Platform (Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Manager, Nutanix Unified Storage, and Nutanix Desktop Services) and will be sold by Cisco using its extensive go-to-market reach. Customers will benefit from a fully integrated and validated solution that is sold, built, managed and supported holistically for a seamless end-to-end experience. The solution will offer flexible deployment options with support for Cisco UCS rack and blade servers, including initial support for C-Series Servers and planned, future support for UCS X-Series. The new offering will integrate advanced Cisco servers (UCS), networking and security (ACI), and management (UCS Manager, Intersight) with the Nutanix Cloud Platform software. www.cisco.com • www.nutanix.com Pure Storage expands Microsoft partnership Pure Storage has announced an expanded, multi-year strategic product and go-tomarket partnership with Microsoft, that brings the vendor’s storage capabilities to native Microsoft Azure services by leveraging Azure's new Premium SSD v2 and introducing them to Azure VMware Solution (AVS) in Preview. Ajay Singh, Chief Product Officer, Pure Storage said: “This expanded partnership creates a significant milestone, ushering in a new age of cloud migration, and ultimately driving faster, more cost-effective adoption of cloud services. Pure Cloud Block Store for Azure VMware Solution is just the beginning. By optimising performance and cost at scale, we look forward to unlocking the number of mission-critical use cases that we can serve in the coming years.” www.purestorage.com Recurring revenue rise Integrated cloud business communications provider NFON has had a good first half of 2023 and enjoyed positive performance in revenue and earnings. Recurring revenue, a central performance indicator for NFON, rose by 5.1% to EUR 38.4 million (previous year: EUR 36.5 million). Total revenue increased moderately by 2.7% to EUR 41.2 million (previous year: EUR 40.1 million). As a result, the share of high margin recurring revenue climbed to 93.2% of total revenue in the first half of 2023. The company says the high share of recurring revenue underscores the loyalty of its customers and forms a very strong basis for ongoing revenue planning. www.nfon.com Stone secures place on CCS framework Stone, a Converge company, has secured a place on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Network Services 3 RM6116 framework. The circular IT company has been named to five lots: Lot 2a Intra-site Connectivity (LAN) and Local Connectivity Services; Lot 3a IoT and Smart Cities; Lot 4b Digital Communication Services (Unified Communications); Lot 4c Contact Centre Solutions; and Lot 4e Paging and Alerting). www.stonegroup.co.uk Sustainable packaging Clover Imaging Group, a division of Clover Environmental Solutions has announced its commitment to convert all its printer cartridge exterior packaging to coated recycled paperboard (CRB) by the end of 2023. With its use of 100% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content, CRB is the most sustainable paperboard available, and it is also fully recyclable after usage, making it a highly sustainable packaging option. This exterior packaging conversion will enable Clover Imaging to conserve 593,559 pounds of cardboard annually. The new paperboard is also certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). SFI certification provides purchasers with a trusted source of products focused on conservation, waste and pollution reduction, and promoting environmentally friendly solutions for a healthier environment. www.cloverimaging.com 20 23 Royal Lancaster · December 5 BOOK YOUR TABLE NOW www.printitawards.co.uk DECEMBER 5 ROYAL LANCASTER
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