01732 759725 NEWS : RESELLERS 10 New chapter for Connectus Business Solutions and KTSL Business connectivity and managed services provider Connectus Business Solutions has merged with service management and integration specialist KTSL to create the Connectus Group, an IT MSP with 60 employees operating from six sites in the UK and Ireland, including Doncaster, Salford, Corsham, Egham, Daresbury and Dublin. Clients include AIB, UCB, Unilever, the Peel Group, Sale Sharks and the National Police Air Service. Commenting on the third such transaction for Connectus in as many years, Connectus Group CEO Roy Shelton said: “This is the start of an exciting new chapter for Connectus Business Solutions and KTSL and will present an opportunity for further growth and job creation. By bringing these two great organisations together and creating Connectus Group, we have significantly increased our technical capability, boosted our delivery resources and further deepened our pool of commercial experience.” He added: “This merger brings a greater scale, allowing us to bid for larger opportunities, increase our recurring managed services revenue and will allow us to leverage our 60-plus members of staff in a more collaborative manner.” Connectus Group expects to deliver revenues of more than £10m in the current financial year ending March 2023. ANS Group unveils new brand identity ANS Group, formed late last year from the merger of the former UKFast and ANS brands, has unveiled a unified brand and go-to-market proposition and announced a target to double EBITDA to £80 million by the end of 2025. It has also made a commitment to train 200 new apprentices over the next three years. Boasting a 650-strong workforce, 7,000 B2B customers and revenues of £123 million (FY21), ANS is now one of Europe’s largest digital transformation providers, with strengths in public and private cloud, hosting, security, DevOps, applications and data. CTO Joe Wolski says that ANS Group’s position in the market will enable it to ‘hack the tech adoption curve’ and offer cutting-edge tech to organisations that might otherwise be priced out. He said: “‘Hacking the tech adoption curve’ sounds like jargon but by bringing together the capabilities of both businesses, that’s exactly what we’re doing. Because we have specialists and deep expertise both in products and in services, we can overlay our products with a service layer and help companies adopt tech quicker and cheaper than they would normally be able to do. That’s what hacking the tech adoption curve means and it’s an approach that’s already delivering unbelievable results for our customers.” www.ans.co.uk Integrity 360 partners with Deep Instinct Cybersecurity services specialist Integrity360 is expanding its cyber security offering through a new partnership with Deep Instinct. As a member of Deep Instinct’s Stratosphere channel program, it will offer the company’s industry-first Prevention Platform to UK enterprises alongside complementary technologies within its portfolio as part of a multi-vendor solution. Deep Instinct takes a preventionfirst approach to stopping ransomware and other malware, including known, unknown and zero-day threats, across hybrid environments using the world’s first and only purpose-built, deep learning cybersecurity framework. Richard Ford, CTO at Integrity360, said: “The ability to prevent attacks from hitting the network or endpoint before they become a problem is a powerful proposition, and one that will make forward-thinking customers sit up and take notice. There is a great synergy between Integrity360 and Deep Instinct, and together we are confident that we can achieve our shared goals, delivering true prevention to customers across UK&I.” Pexip award for Kinly Systems integrator and remote collaboration service provider Kinly UK has been named winner of the ‘Greatest Retention Award’ at the Pexip EMEA Partner Community Summit 2022. The award from global video conferencing specialist Pexip AV follows a year in which minutes on the Pexip for Kinly video conferencing platform surpassed 130 million in the UK for the first time. Pexip offers an extensive catalogue of video-based solutions that go beyond standard UC comms, providing seamless interoperability between popular video conference systems like Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Skype for Business. Pexip solutions are used in more than 190 countries by more than 4,400 leading enterprise and public sector clients (including 15% of the Fortune 500). www.kinly.com Fluent becomes AWS Retail Competency Partner Fluent Commerce, provider of a cloudnative distributed Order Management System (OMS), has become an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Retail Competency Partner following validation by AWS to ensure alignment to best practices for building secure, high-performing cloud infrastructure for retail applications. Born in the cloud and architected from day one to take advantage of modern-day cloud services, Fluent Order Management has the features of a traditional OMS but with the flexibility of a software as a service (SaaS) offering. Fluent Order Management is MACH certified and provides the tools to connect systems, sync inventory in near real-time and update fulfilment logic quickly. fluentcommerce.com Richard Ford Roy Shelton New acquisitions by 11:11 Systems Following its recent acquisitions of iland and Green Cloud Defense, managed instrastructure solutions provider 11:11 Systems has pursued its mission to become the industry standard in cloud, connectivity and security solutions by acquiring certain managed service and cloud infrastructure assets from Unitas Global and certain connectivity assets and customer contracts from Cleareon Fiber Networks, including a base of wholesale carrier customers. The acquisitions are backed by Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a middle-market private equity firm. 1111Systems.com
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