32 01732 759725 TECHDIGEST Nebula Global Services is strengthening its channel services offering with the launch of the Nebulab Verified Engineer Ecosystem, a framework for ensuring engineers in its global network of 7,400 technical and service delivery specialists meet the latest industry standards for security, compliance and performance. The Nebulab Verified Engineer certification framework gives Nebula Global Services’ reseller, MSP and SI partners reassurance in the quality of its engineers through a rigorous vetting and onboarding process, followed by performance monitoring and ongoing skills development. www.nebulaglobalservices.com … Hot on the heels of its acquisition of the Guider mentoring platform, learning technology company Thrive has acquired Huler, provider of a UX-first smart intranet to customers such as Travelodge, Norgine and Dairy Queen. Huler acts as the front door to every app and system employees might use at work, bringing together internal comms, tools, news and knowledge, enhanced with AI‑powered personalisation and federated search. By combining Huler’s UX-first smart intranet, Thrive’s AI-powered learning and Guider’s mentoring expertise, Thrive is aiming to create an AI-first personalised employee hub where onboarding, internal campaigns, learning content and workplace tools come together in one seamless experience, tailored to each employee’s role, goals and needs. … Enterprise cyber resilience specialist Absolute Security has announced a newly certified integration of Absolute Resilience for MSPs with ConnectWise RMM on the ConnectWise Asio platform. Available through the ConnectWise Marketplace, which connects MSPs with an ecosystem of third-party integrations, Absolute Resilience provides recovery, compliance and protection for MSP-managed endpoint devices. It enables MSPs to monitor and enforce endpoint compliance; restore PCs back to a fully secure, compliant, operational state after an IT or security incident – remotely, with one click; and secure at-risk endpoint devices and data by freezing compromised endpoints, securely wiping data, enforcing encryption and maintaining rules-based geofencing for mobile PCs. Through partnerships with 28 leading PC OEMs, Absolute Security is embedded in the firmware of more than 600 million Windows endpoints. This allows MSPs to ensure their customers remain defended against advanced threats, protected against risks and able to quickly recover after an incident, even when the device OS and other security or management tools have crashed, been compromised or become corrupted. www.connectwise.com www.absolute.com … With the European Accessibility Act (EAA) now requiring all digital services offered within the EU to be accessible to people with disabilities, Source Code Control is encouraging MSPs to position themselves as Accessibility Partners to their customers. To help them, it is providing an Accessibility Assessment Toolkit on a white-label basis, allowing MSPs to offer audits of customers’ digital assets, such as websites and software interfaces, for compatibility with accessibility needs, without needing to build in-house expertise. Source Code Control says that despite equivalent UK accessibility legislation being enforced in 2018, one in 20 UK users still isn’t able to access websites and apps properly, putting businesses at risk of fines, loss of customer trust and now the right to trade in the EU. https://sourcecodecontrol.com … Following the success of its CRM specialisation framework for Solution Partners, monday.com is bringing out new specialisations for AI and Service. These new badges give partners the opportunity to unlock additional benefits and revenue streams by meeting defined requirements and positioning themselves as product-specific experts. Monday.com introduced its CRM specialisation one year ago, since when the number of its CRM Partner Specialists globally has increased to 40. Network Rail signals upgrade to rail network telecoms infrastructure Millions of rail passengers can look forward to improved mobile connectivity along major rail arteries, as Network Rail, Neos Networks and Freshwave join forces to implement the biggest upgrade to Britain’s rail telecoms infrastructure in decades. As well as boosting 4G/5G connectivity on trains and in stations and tackling signal blackspots in tunnels, Project Reach will deploy 1,000 kilometres of ultrafast, high-count fibre optic cable along major routes, with a longer-term ambition to increase the trackside network to more than 5,000km. Forming the basis of a new high-capacity telecoms infrastructure for Great British Railway and facilitating the rollout of technologies that rely on good connectivity, such as trackside sensors and CCTV applications, the new network will use a 432 count core cable, compared to the railway’s current 24 and 48 count fibre optic cable system (like that found in the ground in residential streets). This massive increase in network capacity meets Network Rail’s requirements and creates a digital backbone for businesses needing connectivity to data centres and high-performance edge facilities. Network Rail will use half the new capacity for its purposes, with B2B telecoms provider Neos Networks commercialising the other half. Neos Networks CEO Lee Myall said: “The increasing demand for data centre capacity and the unprecedented growth in AI-driven data demands are pushing the boundaries of existing infrastructure. Project Reach will support the upgrade of the UK’s connectivity infrastructure, creating new data superhighways that will drive the UK’s digital ambitions forward.” Trackside fibre will initially be deployed along parts of the East Coast Main Line, the Chiltern Main Line/West Coast Main Line and the Great Western Main Line. From next year, mobile connectivity specialist Freshwave, working with mobile network operators (MNOs), will begin deploying mobile infrastructure to tackle signal blackspots in 57 tunnels and associated deep cuttings along the East Coast Main Line, the West Coast Main Line and the Great Western Main Line, including the 4km Chipping Sodbury tunnel near Bristol and the Gasworks and Copenhagen tunnels outside King’s Cross. It will also invest in new 4G/5G infrastructure at 12 Network Rail mainline stations, enabling MNOs to provide enhanced coverage at Birmingham New St, Bristol Temple Meads, Edinburgh Waverley, Euston, Glasgow Central, King’s Cross, Leeds, Liverpool Lime Street, Liverpool Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Paddington and Waterloo. freshwavegroup.com
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