PrintIT Reseller - issue 64

01732 759725 12 BULLETIN NHS Trust selects Lexmark as supplier of choice Lexmark has been chosen by County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT) as its supplier of choice for managed print services. Lexmark will initially introduce a flexible smart MPS platform to enable future digital transformation strategies. This project supports the NHS’s drive towards interoperability and paperlite working environments, whilst maintaining the need to use resources efficiently and effectively. Having amassed a wealth of knowledge and best practices specific to the UK healthcare market, Lexmark is proud to be working with the CDDFT team on its digital journey and will offer support with marketing leading insights in order to drive out waste and reduce costs. www.lexmark.co.uk NEC announces global channel programme NEC Display Solutions Europe has announced its global channel programme, part of its NEC One initiative, designed to provide global support and services to AV/ IT reseller partners. The global channel programme will be comprised of partners across the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions. As members of the NEC One global channel programme, NEC partners receive dedicated support from the NEC global team, access to its global technology portfolio, global pricing, global partner status, executive sponsorship, special demo discounts, and a global bounty programme. Simon Jackson, Senior Vice President of Sales EMEA at NEC Display Solutions Europe said: “NEC Display Solutions is solely focused on the business market and its needs, and this new initiative will ensure that we’re managing global opportunities with our partners with the level of support and resources that makes NEC the easiest display solutions manufacturer to do business with.” www.nec-display-solutions.co.uk HP opens centre of excellence HP Inc. has opened a new 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing Centre of Excellence in Barcelona, one of the world’s largest and most advanced research and development facilities for the next-generation technologies powering the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The new centre brings together hundreds of the world’s leading additive manufacturing experts in more than 150,000 square feet of cutting-edge innovation space to transform the way the world designs and manufactures. The 3+ acre facility at HP’s Barcelona campus is dedicated to the development of HP’s industrial 3D printing portfolio and provides a large-scale factory environment to collaborate with customers and partners on the digital manufacturing technologies revolutionising their industries. www.hp.com Cardboard collection stations As a part of its OWA Collect programme, ARMOR Office Printing has announced the rollout of its new cardboard collection stations for used cartridges. There are already 15,700 collection service accounts around Europe which can benefit from this service. OWA’s used cartridge collection service enables companies to remotely manage the collection, recycling and refurbishing of their printer cartridges. Once the cartridges have been collected, they are remanufactured and then put back on the market to offer environmentally friendly products which support sustainable consumption. www.armor-group.com Taking MPS to the cloud Lexmark has announced the availability of Lexmark Cloud Print Infrastructure (CPI), a complete as-a-service solution that utilises IoT and cloud technologies to take its managed print services offering to a new level. With Lexmark CPI, customers access a modern, secure print environment through a subscription service in which they pay for print capacity rather than owning and managing the physical infrastructure. This completely new approach to enterprise print enables IT departments to reduce costs by removing infrastructure and management burden, while ensuring a higher level of user experience. For purchasing departments spending valuable time managing RFPs and complex billing, the offering provides flexible subscription pricing options. www.lexmark.co.uk SentinelOne announces funding Autonomous endpoint protection company SentinelOne has raised $120 million in Series D funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, NextEquity and previous investors including Third Point Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Granite Hill and Data Collective among others. The round brings SentinelOne’s total funding to more than $230 million. The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s rapid displacement of legacy and next-gen competitors in connecting endpoint, cloud, and IoT protection through its autonomous AI platform deployed throughout the enterprise. www.sentinelone.com University of Reading chooses Rubrik Rubrik has been selected by the University of Reading to protect more than 90% of its environment including Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Exchange, as well as Nutanix and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. Rubrik’s solution has already allowed the university to completely migrate off tape, archive to public cloud, and significantly speed up SQL data recovery. Having been restricted by a tape-centric legacy back-up and recovery solution which was unable to protect all applications, the university wanted to shift to a different solution for reliable back-up and much faster restore times, particularly for its user critical Microsoft Exchange environment. Rubrik was selected for its speed, management simplicity and ability to support the university’s Nutanix and Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure. www.rubrik.com LEXMARK : Cloud Print Infrastructure Simon Jackson