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01732 759725 22 NEWS : VENDORS Kensington celebrates 40 years of innovation UK office opened by Morphean Swiss video surveillance-as-a-service and access control-as-a-service specialist Morphean has opened a new office in Leeds, as part of its European expansion plans, and appointed Paul Green as Head of Sales in the UK and Ireland and Lauren Irwin as UK Sales Executive. The establishment of a UK office, in addition to recently opened offices in Copenhagen and Amsterdam, will help Morphean provide localised support in Northern Europe and boost demand for its all-in-one cloud platform, which provides a single dashboard for proactive video surveillance, access control and business intelligence. Cloud-based analytics delivers actionable insights from multiple data sources, including video surveillance, people counting, queue management and heat mapping systems, that would be uneconomical or impossible with traditional technology platforms. Another benefit of VSaaS and ACaaS from Morphean is a monthly fee rather than upfront capital investment. Evolution Capital celebrates e-accelerator launch with classic car rally Evolution Capital, a leading corporate finance boutique wholly focused on the TMT space, has celebrated another successful year by taking 40 partners, customers and industry investors on a classic car rally across the glorious West Sussex countryside. The event, organised by Evolution Capital MD Nigel Cook and his team, celebrated the firm’s achievements over the last 12 months, notably the matching of 10 IT and Telecoms business owners with potential investors/buyers and the launch of e-accelerator, the UK’s first portal for the ICT mergers and acquisitions marketplace. Featuring a selection of new and classic sports and supercars, the rally began with breakfast at Targa Florio Cars just south of Chichester, before moving off into the South Downs National Park and a pit-stop at Vintage Bentley, where participants were greeted by owner William Medcalf and given a tour of the restoration workshop. From there, the cavalcade headed east to Midhurst and the Cowdray Park estate’s beautiful Walled Garden, where international polo player Marcus Beresford told the group how polo was established at Cowdray and what it takes to be a top-flight player. The final destination was Goodwood’s historic motor circuit, where Evolution Capital’s guests enjoyed lunch and drinks in the Race Control building before prize-giving and a fascinating talk from Goodwood motorsport curator Gary Axon on buying classic and contemporary sports and supercars. www.evolutioncapital.com CompTIA cyber-intelligence sharing extended to UK CompTIA, the non-profit association for the global IT industry, is aiming to improve cybersecurity readiness in the UK by extending the CompTIA ISAO (Information Sharing and Analysis Organisation) to the UK. Launched in the US in 2020, this acts as a focal point for technology vendors, MSPs, solution providers, integrators, distributors and business technology consultants to share timely, relevant and actionable threat intelligence that can help protect themselves and their customers. In the US, CompTIA ISAO has more than 1,200 member companies, plus Industry Partners like Axcient, ConnectWise, Dark Cubed, Dell Technologies and Sophos. In addition to the latest cybersecurity intelligence data, including feeds and reporting from the Information Technology- Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC) and TruSTAR, CompTIA ISAO members will have full access to CompTIA corporate member resources, communities and tools. https://www.comptiaisao.org/ Kensington, the desktop computing accessories company, is 40 years old this month (November). From its first product launched in 1982 – the SystemSaver, a cooling and surge protection solution for the then- fanless Apple Macintosh computer – Kensington has focused on making computers, laptops and mobile devices easier to use, more comfortable and more secure whether in the office, at home or anywhere in-between. Highlights include: n The first trackball mouse – the Turbo Mouse for Macintosh, launched in 1986, and the Expert Mouse for PC in 1989; n Vertical trackballs and mice that are more natural and comfortable to use and reduce wrist movements that can cause repetitive motion injuries; n The first laptop lock – since launching the original MicroSaver lock in 1992, Kensington has sold more than 38 million security locks worldwide and seen Kensington Security Slots built into most laptops, projectors, monitors and printers. n The first-of-its-kind VeriMark Fingerprint Key, a CES Innovations 2018 honoree, combining superior biometric performance and 360-degree readability with anti- spoofing technologies for secure login to laptops, desktops and applications such as Windows Hello. n Multiple docking stations, since its first in 1996. These include the SD7000 Surface Pro Docking Station, launched in 2018, which turns the Surface Pro into a Mini Surface Studio, with a choice of eye- level desktop display mode or ‘studio mode’ for drawing on-screen; the StudioDock iPad Docking Station, a 2021 CES Innovation Award Honoree and recipient of eight Best of CES 2021 awards, which turns the iPad into a desktop workstation with the addition of an external monitor, while also providing wireless charging for the entire Apple ecosystem; and, also in 2021, the SD5700T Thunderbolt 4 Dual 4K Docking Station, the industry’s first fully-powered Thunderbolt 4 laptop docking station, which enables users to experience the full performance and capabilities of Intel’s new connectivity technology. n Ergonomic desktop accessories, including monitor arms and monitor stands, most recently the UVStand Monitor Stand with UVC Sanitisation Compartment, a CES 2021 Innovation Award Honoree, which combines the ergonomic benefits of a monitor/laptop stand with a sanitisation compartment for eliminating viruses and bacteria from devices such as keyboards, mice, trackballs and mobile phones. www.kensington.com