01732 759725 10 NEWS : DISTRIBUTORS OT Group gets planting OT Group, a distributor of business services and workplace solutions, has signed a multi-year partnership with The Tree Council in a bid to preserve the UK’s natural landscape and plant 10,000 trees. As part of the partnership, OT Group will participate in a raft of fundraising and volunteering initiatives, including committing £5,000 to the ‘Big Give Match Fund’ campaign to raise funds for The Tree Council’s Orchards for Schools programme. As one of 70 corporate Jubilee Partners for The Queen’s Green Canopy, it will also help plant 35,000 trees and seven kilometres of hedgerow in communities across the UK before the end of the Jubilee planting season in 2023. Andrew Jones, OT Group CEO, said: “We are delighted to have signed a multiyear partnership with The Tree Council. As OT Group is a Royal Warrant Holder, the Queen’s Canopy is something we were particularly keen to be a part of, to celebrate the late Queen’s Jubilee.” He added: “With a large proportion of OT Group’s office supplies being paper-based, we’re keen to try and mitigate the impact that has on the planet and have committed to planting 10,000 trees by the end of 2023.” otgroupltd.co.uk • treecouncil.org.uk Exertis Enterprise gains Dell co-delivery certification Exertis Enterprise has been certified to offer Dell co-delivery installation services in collaboration with Dell Services Specialist and Support Organisation, enabling it to provide a complete end-toend service, from pre-sales consultancy to installation. The service is provided through Exertis Enterprise’s professional services installation team, whose engineers have undergone the same rigorous training as Dell’s own installers, and covers an expanding range of Dell solutions, starting with Dell PowerStore and PowerScale. Paul Hickingbotham, Technical Director of Exertis Enterprise, said: “With this new capability, we are enhancing our Dell value-add to customers, strengthening our longstanding vendor/distributor relationship with Dell and also bolstering the skills and services to help customers maintain their significance and value.” www.exertis.co.uk OpenMPS enhanced with on-site warranty TD SYNNEX has added an onsite warranty option with full monitoring of devices to its OpenMPS managed print service. Combined with existing installation and configuration services, this gives partners an end-to-end service proposition they can take to their customers. It has also updated the dashboard for OpenMPS to provide partners with information on when devices are nearing end of life and need to be upgraded or replaced. Peter Lunn, UK Technical Lead for OpenMPS at TD SYNNEX, said: “With the extended warranty and monitoring added into OpenMSP, partners can take a complete managed services proposition to their customers. It’s simple to understand and sell, and ideal for partners that want to offer a managed option without investing in their own dedicated service and capability.” The OpenMPS Data Collection Agent installed on a customer’s system to provide monitoring will alert TD SYNNEX’s warranty services provider to identify and respond to any issues with no touch or intervention needed from the reseller. https://uk.tdsynnex.com/ OCI services added to ArrowSphere Arrow Electronics, an Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) member, has extended its collaboration with Oracle by adding Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including storage, compute, database and analytics, to ArrowSphere. Eric Nowak, President of the Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions Business in EMEA, said: “Our relationship with Oracle spans over two decades, and adding OCI services to ArrowSphere is the next logical step. We’re committed to helping our customers grow their cloud businesses, and these products combine the flexibility and cost benefits of a public cloud with the predictability, security and control of an onpremises environment.” fiveyearsout.com Aruba award for Ingram Micro UK Ingram Micro UK has been named the Aruba 2022 Instant On Distributor of the Year, in recognition of its success in generating more Aruba Instant On business with existing channel partners whilst also enabling new partners through training, education and sales enablement. Steve Gillen, Product Manager for the Aruba Instant On business at Ingram Micro UK, said: “The award is a proud acknowledgement of our team’s efforts over the last 12 months. I know we are all excited about the potential that FY23 holds for the brand and our relationship with Aruba.” AWS award Amazon Web Services, Inc. has named TD SYNNEX as its EMEA Distributor Partner of the Year 2022 in recognition of the significant contributions it has made to revenue and the number of channel partners reached on behalf of AWS. www.TDSYNNEX.com Barco Event Master range added to PSCo trade rental fleet PSCo has strengthened its trade rental fleet for the live events market with the addition of Barco Event Master image processing and screen control systems solutions, including the flagship E2 Gen 2 and S3 Tri-Combo 4K presentation systems, the EC-50 event controller, and PDS-4K presentation switchers. Trade partners will benefit from rentalready trade hire packages across all Barco products, as well as access to Barco image processing demonstration facilities at Innovation House, PSCo’s experience centre in Bracknell. PSCo will also stock select items from the Event Master range for resale, to support rental partners with time-sensitive project opportunities. Tom Allott, Asset Manager at PSCo, said: “We are excited to partner with Barco to expand our trade rental offering to the live events industry with a focus on the latest image processing solutions. The investment in the Barco Event Master suite of products will complement and add value to our existing range of LED and projection packages.” Peter Lunn Eric Nowak
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