BULLETIN Investment partnership PSCo, a specialist LED distributor and trade-only rental company has announced a partnership with Brompton Technology, a manufacturer of LED video processing products for the film, TV, broadcast and live event sectors. Brompton Technology products are paired with Absen LED cabinets to offer PSCo’s rental customers market leading processing solutions for LED video walls for virtual studio creation. The initial £2m investment reflects the current demand for virtual production and broadcast applications and PSCo will take delivery of 300sqm of Brompton-Absen LED cabinets in June 2022. The stock is available now to preorder for customers to buy or rent, on a first come, first served basis. www.midwich.com Competitive trade-in options Tech Data is enabling partners to offer their end-user customers even more attractive trade-in options for assured recycling and asset disposal of data centre and infrastructure products. The expanded range of options is the result of new partnership agreements with specialist third-party suppliers. It covers brands such as HPE, IBM, NetApp and other well-known enterprise vendors. Mark Glasspool, Services Director, UK and Ireland, said: “Improving sustainability to move towards net-zero carbon goals is on everyone’s agenda. There is tremendous interest in recycling and re-using of IT equipment and, with the enhanced range of options we are launching, our partners can help their customers even more. “We can work with partners to enable enduser customers to extend the lifecycle of their IT products and find competitive trade-in options when they need to update or refresh their infrastructure. By doing this, partners can get a better return on their investments while moving towards their sustainability goals,” he added. Through its extended partnerships, Tech Data now has more recycling and refurbishment services capacity. All IT equipment – from servers to smartphones – can now be traded in or handed over for safe and sustainable recycling or refurbishment in line with all government and industry standards. Across Europe, Tech Data takes more than 90,000 items for trade-in or refurbishment in an average month. www.TDSYNNEX.com 01732 759725 8 Flex IT acquires demo specialist MKCL Flex IT, one of the largest European specialists in IT lifecycle management, has acquired European demo partner MKCL. The acquisition is part of its ongoing mission to lead the change to a fully circular European market for IT hardware, as well as supporting the company’s strategy to expand its services to both IT channel and IT vendors. CEO Leon Timmermans said: “With the acquisition of MKCL, Flex IT takes another big step forward in its position as a circular service provider for vendors. In addition, it will enable Flex IT to further help organisations realise their sustainability goals by offering circular Lenovo products to the European market. The need for sustainable IT computers and laptops is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. Flex IT wants to support companies in this transition and the acquisition of MKCL helps to make this ambition a reality.” MKCL is a trusted brand in the European IT landscape and will remain active under the MKCL name. www.flexitdistribution.com Managed virtual desktop solution TD SYNNEX has announced a new managed virtual desktop Click-to-Run solution for businesses looking to offer remote desktop capabilities. The solution deploys an Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environment hosted in Microsoft Azure that allows users to access their desktops and applications from anywhere, on any kind of device. “Many organisations don’t have the time or resources to commit to building or deploying full-scale IT infrastructure for new or remote employees, and a virtual desktop solution can help to deliver the flexibility, scalability and cost efficiency businesses need,” said Peter Zonneveld, Vice President of Global Solutions Aggregation, TD SYNNEX. “The addition of new managed features to Azure’s Virtual Desktop reduces set-up time and allows for easy-to-use services that help customers access their work applications and infrastructure from anywhere in the world.” TD SYNNEX’s Managed Azure virtual desktop solution simplifies the process of provisioning, configuring, and deploying a cloud-based virtual desktop, with mapped-out support to meet customer needs for virtual working. The new offering has two options for deployment: A standalone feature which provides a quick deployment for partners that already offer managed services and need a quick AVD environment setup. A managed feature which provides the quick AVD environment setup listed above plus comprehensive 24x7 support and management provided via email, phone and chat; performance monitoring and backup to restore support, efficiently and automatically managed environments while identifying and completing required backup of recurring tasks on AVD; and white-labelled service options including implementation, onboarding, resource monitoring, remediation and patch management services. www.TDSYNNEX.com SecurityScorecard appoints Exclusive Networks Exclusive Networks has been appointed the first pan-EMEA value-added distribution partner for SecurityScorecard, a global leader in cybersecurity ratings. Exclusive will take SecurityScorecard to market through its Ignition Technology arm, a specialist distribution engine for accelerating early stage and scaleup SaaS based cybersecurity vendors. www.exclusive-networks.com Mark Glasspool Leon Timmermans
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