First rental partner PSCo, a specialist LED distributor and trade-only rental company, has been named as the first rental partner to stock Epson’s new EB-PU2200 range of lightweight and compact high lumens 3LCD projectors in the UK. Epson has made the first units of the black chassis 20,000lm model exclusively available to PSCo’s rental partners from May 2022. Rental partners can either rent or buy the units from PSCo. Stuart Holmes, Director of PSCo said: “We are delighted to be named as the first UK rental partner to stock Epson’s impressive 20,000lm model. This investment in our projection fleet underlines PSCo’s intentions to provide our customers with world leading technologies across our product categories.” www.midwich.com 01732 759725 BULLETIN 10 Tech Data expands cybersecurity offering Tech Data has announced a distribution agreement with cybersecurity softwareas-a-service provider IDEE. With this agreement, Tech Data’s partners in Europe can offer passwordless multi-factor authentication and authorisation solutions for organisations of all sizes. According to research by the World Economic Forum, around 80% of cyber-attacks are password-related and larger companies are increasingly forced to invest a large proportion of IT helpdesk budgets into addressing password issues. IDEE’S solution, called AuthN, helps enterprises to free themselves from this burden and improve their cybersecurity resilience with a user-friendly password and tokenfree authentication process that leverages cryptography and blockchain technology. With no passwords for cybercriminals to exploit, AuthN drastically reduces the risk of phishing and hijacking of user profiles, thereby hindering the spread of ransomware in organisations. AuthN is available as a white-label solution for partners who want to offer their own branded cybersecurity subscription-based services. AuthN works in conjunction with other SaaS offerings and is available with preconfigured integrations, to reduce complexity and time to market for Tech Data partners. Alex Christophe, Sales Director, IDEE, said: “We are excited to start 2022 with this collaboration with Tech Data, which is a critical next step in IDEE’s growth trajectory. Working with Tech Data enables us to reach new markets, leveraging the impressive capabilities of the global TD SYNNEX organisation at a time when the adoption for passwordless is rapidly ramping up. Our agreement with Tech Data in Europe will ultimately mean more of Tech Data’s partners will be able to dramatically improve their customers’ cybersecurity resilience, reduce costs and drive user satisfaction up with best UX practices.” https://eu.techdata.com/cybersecurity Highgate IT Solutions trials four day week IT VAR, Highgate IT Solutions has announced that it will trial a four day working week. The trial will take place over a business quarter, starting April 1. Adopting the 100:80:100 model, this trial will see Highgate commit to 100% pay, for 80% of time, in return for 100% productivity. With the official UK pilot due to start in June, interest in the four day working week has started to build up momentum. Organisations that have already made the move have reported increases in performance and profit, as well as benefiting from an increased attraction to potential employees and higher employee retention rates. Charlotte Lockhart, Founder of The 4 Day Week Global said: “We have passed the tipping point with the 4 Day Week and reduced hours working. The leadership at Highgate have recognised that this is the way forward and we congratulate them and wish them all the best for their trial. We’re looking forward to following their journey.” www.highgate-it.co.uk Ancoris helps customers go green Ancoris is enabling customers to add carbon footprint reduction to their cloud migration and IT modernisation planning. The cloud services provider has launched its new Ancoris GreenLab service, which helps organisations to understand the carbon impact of migrating to the cloud from on-premise and hosted IT deployments, GreenLab also quantifies the financial business case. CEO Andre Azevedo said: “I believe that our GreenLab solution is the best way for Ancoris to have a wider impact on sustainability beyond our own organisation, by helping as many companies as possible to add carbon footprint reduction to their migration business case. This can be up to 80% depending on where you run your workloads today.” https://www.ancoris.com/greenlab Red Hat extends partner training offerings Red Hat has announced it is expanding its offerings for partners in order to advance their skills journey with open hybrid cloud technologies. Red Hat partners can now access Red Hat Training self-paced online courses at no cost in order to develop critical skills around Red Hat solutions in key areas such as cloud computing, containers, virtualisation, automation and more. The initial Red Hat Training offerings that are open to partners include 17 courses, available in eight languages, accessible through the Red Hat Partner Training Portal and paving the way for future skills development through accreditation and certification. With these courses, partners are better positioned to accelerate skills development and achieve Red Hat Certification. www.redhat.com The Convergent Technology Event for IT Resellers & Providers 22 13 September 2022 Business Design Centre, London tech-live.co.uk
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