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NEWS : VENDORS 01732 759725 12 Kaseya, a provider of IT infrastructure management solutions for MSPs and internal IT departments, closed 2019 with a valuation of more than $2 billion after achieving organic revenue growth of 30%, the highest in its history, with 5,000 new customers and $300 million in annual bookings. Growth was fuelled by strong demand for Kaseya IT Complete, the fully integrated IT management platform for MSPs and SMBs; the acquisition of dark web monitoring and security vendor ID Agent, which added new security offerings to Kaseya’s suite; the launch of a new multi-million dollar compliance unit; further expansion overseas; and the development of six new products. These included compliance automation tools, Compliance Manager for Cyber Insurance and Compliance Manager for HIPAA, which help MSPs and SMBs streamline liability claims and HIPAA compliance processes; and Kaseya’s new direct-to-cloud backup solution, Unitrends Cloud Backup, which offers MSPs file recovery and protection from viruses, hackers, corruption and accidental deletion without the hassle of managing local backup storage. www.kaseya.com Kaseya enters 2020 with $2 billion valuation Greenbone launches service platform for vulnerability management Greenbone Networks, a provider of vulnerability management solutions, has announced a new service platform that, from Q2, will enable UK channel partners to offer customers vulnerability management (VM) as a fully managed service on a monthly OPEX basis. The Greenbone Managed Service (GMS) platform offers micro-businesses and SMEs enterprise-grade protection based on Greenbone’s proven VM solution, without the need to purchase hardware or software. Available in the UK exclusively from resellers and channel partners who can adapt the platform layout and add their own complementary services, the service scans public and internal IP addresses, providing full reporting on all vulnerabilities detected. www.greenbone.net Vaioni invests for growth Vaioni Wholesale has announced plans to increase its headcount by 25% after successful raising £5.5m of funding from Panoramic Growth Equity. The independent network operator is creating new roles in product management, software development, sales, service delivery, engineering and technical support at its MediaCityUK HQ in support of its ambitious growth plans. Managing Director Sachin Vaish said: “This recruitment plan is core to our growth strategy and, alongside investments in our National Ethernet Network, Software Defined Networking and customer-led product development, will ensure the future growth of our business.” www.vaioni.com Kaseya is offering customers a more efficient way of working with a new app that combines the functions of next-generation remote monitoring and management (RMM) and professional services automation (PSA) in a single mobile platform. The Kaseya Fusion Mobile App enables IT managers and technicians to navigate workflows between two of Kaseya’s top tools, the Kaseya BMS PSA solution and the Kaseya VSA RMM for endpoint and network management. Bringing IT asset information together with service tickets enables technicians to resolve IT incidents more quickly. ICO fines DSG for data breach DSG Retail Limited (DSG) has been fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for a cyber- attack that may have affected as many as 14 million people between July 2017 and April 2018. Malware on 5,390 tills at DSG’s Currys PC World and Dixons Travel stores is thought to have given cyber criminals unauthorised access to the details of 5.6 million payment cards used in transactions and the personal information of approximately 14 million people, including full names, postcodes, email addresses and failed credit checks, from internal servers. DSG was found to have breached the Data Protection Act 1998 by having poor security arrangements, including inadequate software patching, absence of a local firewall and lack of network segregation and routine security testing. In January 2018, the ICO fined Carphone Warehouse, which is part of the same company group, £400,000 for similar security vulnerabilities. www.ico.org.uk Sachin Vaish Milton Keynes move for Aiimi Data and information management specialist Aiimi is relocating from Central London to brand-new offices in Milton Keynes. The 10,000 square foot offices within walking distance of Milton Keynes Central station will house Aiimi’s 90+ employees; accommodate an Innovation Hub, where the company will host hackathons, design sprints with customers and R&D planning sessions; and provide space for future growth, including the hiring of an additional 100 data scientists over the next three years. Formpipe boosts US presence Formpipe is boosting its presence in the US through a strategic partnership with fax- based services provider Faxstar. As part of a strategy to diversify its offering to also include document printing and communication solutions, the Californian company will be promoting Formpipe’s market- leading input and output management solution, Lasernet, to its customer base, with Formpipe providing product demonstrations and training. formpipe.com/en/software/Lasernet/