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NEWS : DISTRIBUTORS 01732 759725 12 Exertis employees based in Basingstoke, Harlow, Burnley and Elland raised more than £12,600 for local charities through a series of events run by members of the Exertis UPGRADE trainee management programme in July and August. In total, staff raised £2,487.30 for Naomi House & Jacksplace (bringing the total raised by Exertis to £141,587.22 since it started supporting the charity in 2010); £1,320 for Derian House Children’s Hospice; £1,700 for the Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF); £3,477.76 for Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice; and £3,672.80 for Accuro. The Exertis ‘UPGRADE’ programme is an 18-month internal trainee management programme linked to a Level 3 apprenticeship in leadership and management. Management trainees take lead in giving Midwich teaching the teachers Midwich is providing resellers and their end user customers with a SMART Teacher Training option under its Mi Support package after three members of the distributor’s UK Collaboration Technology Specialists (CTS) team successfully qualified as ‘SMART Certified Trainers’. Ian Strange, Alex James and John Soden completed the 12 SMART Educational Training modules and three exams needed to become SMART Certified Trainers. The qualification enables them to demonstrate Gamification, create real time classroom lessons and accurately show the benefits of SMART inking tools. Jason Barnes, Head of Services EMEA for SMART Technologies, said: “Midwich can now deliver the SMART training modules with a much deeper knowledge and can help teachers combine our software capability with their own teaching methodology to deliver the best educational outcomes for their pupils.” Gotta scoot Technology Reseller has presented a brand-new electric scooter to Purdicom Marketing Manager Carla Nadin. She was automatically entered into a prize draw for the scooter after registering to receive a free copy of the magazine at Channel Live. Enjoy the scooter Carla, but not in those shoes!! Nuvias targets partners with new campaign High value distributor Nuvias is offering a range of services to new and existing channel partners in a campaign for its Advanced Networking, Cybersecurity and Unified Communications practices. Running until Christmas, the Nuvias #TrueValueAdd campaign features special offers for channel partners, including specialist training, business intelligence consultancy, IT monitoring and marketing services. www.Nuvias.com David Ellis Westcon-Comstor extends GDS to India Following its recent expansion into the Middle-East, value-added ICT distributor Westcon-Comstor has extended its Global Deployment Solutions (GDS) capability to India. Already active in more than 70 countries across EMEA and APAC, and with close integration with Westcon Americas in the United States, Canada and Latin America, GDS enables partners and global customers to deliver their products and services seamlessly across borders. Simon Thompson, Senior Vice-President for GDS at Westcon-Comstor, said: “With a physical presence in New Delhi, supported by a local team on the ground, this new entity gives Westcon-Comstor local invoicing and Importer of Record capability, extending our customers reach and ability to deploy multi-country solutions.” www.westcon.com Acronis milestone for intY UK-based cloud distributor intY, now owned by Scansource, has become the first Acronis UK cloud distributor to surpass 1 petabytes of stored data in the Acronis Cyber Cloud. intY has been offering Acronis Backup Cloud to its partners since 2015 to help them meet the data protection needs of their customers. Acronis Backup Cloud protects any physical, virtual or cloud-based workload. www.acronis.com/en-gb/ Cybersecurity training offered by Tech Data Tech Data has entered an agreement with Information Security Hub (ISH) to offer cybersecurity competency and training to managed service providers and other Tech Data customers in Europe. ISH is the cybersecurity expert for Munich Airport and brings expertise from this role into its education programmes. The agreement will enable Tech Data customers to access training on an ongoing basis through the Tech Data Academy IT training portal and practise their cybersecurity technical skills in simulated cyberattacks. ISH cybersecurity courses cover a range of topics including incident detection, analysis and response, business continuity management and information security management. David Ellis, Tech Data vice president, security and mobility solutions, Europe, said: “The training and education programs we are developing with ISH allow partners and end-customers to experience a simulated cyberattack and provide a safe space to hone their skills. With this initiative, we are helping our partners to accelerate their transformation journeys to building their own specialist security practices.” As part of a range of activities aimed at the MSP and Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) market, Tech Data is hosting a security summit on Nov. 14, 2019 at the ISH Munich Airport Cyber Range facility and launching a partner transformation program for customers wanting to evolve from a reseller of traditional technology into a Security-as-a-Service provider. www.techdata-europe.com/security