38 01732 759725 to telephony administration, configuration and operation. AI functions are directly embedded in NFON Business Telephony and can be activated and used immediately without any development or configuration. All data is processed, encrypted and stored in Germany and backed up in the NFON cloud. http://www.nfon.com/ … Connectivity infrastructure-as-a-service provider Freshwave is improving 4G and 5G connectivity for EE mobile customers in the City of London by deploying an additional 50 outdoor small cell sites in the Square Mile. This increases the number of Freshwave-deployed EE small cell sites in the City to 85, with an additional 34 in the pipeline. Outdoor small cells installed at street level add much-needed capacity to high footfall areas, relieving the outdoor network and ensuring a better experience for mobile users. In addition to outdoor small cell sites, Freshwave provides seamless multi-operator mobile connectivity within buildings, including more than 5,000,000 sq ft of commercial building space in the City of London. www.freshwavegroup.com … Gamma is expanding its SafeWeb cyber resilience series with a Pro version that includes cyber insurance to help cover legal costs, fines and damages relating to a cyber incident. Available exclusively through channel partners, SafeWeb Pro adds insurance cover underwritten by a world leading insurer to the cyber security tools offered by SafeWeb Plus, such as dark web monitoring, phishing simulation, incident response and GDPR compliance. Tom Chedham, Head of Security Practice at Gamma, said: “SafeWeb Pro is a game-changer for our partners. It opens up new conversations, delivers exceptional value and gives partners a strong competitive advantage in a high‑growth segment.” gammagroup.co Zoho UK, provider of AI-powered cloud-based business software solutions, has announced plans to relocate from Bletchley to Milton Keynes and open a UK data centre in the first quarter of 2026, following growth of 43% in the last two years and a tripling of its UK headcount. The company’s new office will provide additional capacity to support continued investment and expansion in the UK, while the opening of a UK datacentre will enable Zoho customers to retain their data within UK boundaries. In the last year, Zoho has also invested in the channel, doubling the number of premium partners in its ecosystem of resellers, distributors and system integrators. Zoho UK Managing Director Sachin Agrawal said: “The UK is our largest and longest served market in Europe and our third largest globally with huge growth potential. We are committed to investing further to continue to deliver what our customers want and need.” … British cyber security consultancy and assessor Prism Infosec has joined an elite group of only 16 firms worldwide accredited to deliver CBEST tests to top tier financial institutions and Financial Market Infrastructure organisations (FMIs) in the UK. Administered by international accreditation and certification body CREST on behalf of the Bank of England, CBEST is a rigorous cyber resilience test that top UK financial institutions are legally required to undergo every three years. www.prisminfosec.com … Following its $859m acquisition of Secureworks, which closed earlier this year, Sophos is providing natively integrated Sophos Endpoint licences with all Taegis XDR and MDR subscriptions at no additional cost, giving customers unified prevention, detection and response in a single platform and partners new opportunities to help customers consolidate tools and cut costs. Sophos Endpoint features are available directly in the Taegis console, with telemetry and detections flowing seamlessly into existing Taegis detection and response workflows. While the integration of Sophos Endpoint eliminates the need for customers to purchase a separate endpoint security solution, those that choose to do so can use an alternative endpoint solution as Taegis remains an open platform. www.sophos.com … UK-based startup BenchBee is hoping to disrupt the traditional IT consultancy recruitment model with the launch of a secure talent-sharing platform that enables vetted consultancies to monetise underused ‘bench’ consultants, access hidden talent pools and eliminate slow recruitment processes. Founder and CEO Hassen Hattab says that at a time when hiring freezes, budget cuts and skills shortages are putting delivery under pressure, the BenchBee platform provides a dynamic, skills-rich community that allows member organisations to turn their consultants’ idle bench time into profitable revenue streams and respond faster to their own project demands by accessing specialist skills when needed. He said: “This is an entirely new category of talent-sharing that disrupts the traditional recruitment model. We’ve created a member-driven ecosystem where consultancies can connect, match available talent to project needs in real time and access hidden talent pools that traditional recruitment simply can’t reach. It’s a smarter way to fill skills gaps and unlock underused expertise that would otherwise remain invisible.” According to the Management Consultancies Association’s MCA Member Survey 2025, the average IT consultant in the UK spends 15–20% of their time on the bench, fully employed but not generating revenue. https://benchbee.io/ TECHDIGEST ...continued Record-breaking Sytronix flies the flag for UK manufacturing Sytronix Founder James Walsh describes the Chorley-based company’s success in setting a new server performance record as testament to the capabilities of UK manufacturing. Using a system powered by two AMD EPYC 9965 processors, Sytronix took top spot on the Blender CPU benchmark leaderboard – a widely recognised measure of computing power – with a score of 9688.91, outperforming the previous top result by 142%. Walsh said: “Our systems are designed to scale, engineered to lead and built for records. From day one our goal was to prove that Britain can still manufacture cutting-edge technology, and this result shows we’re not just keeping up, we’re leading.” Unlike competitors that simply assemble components imported from Asia, Sytronix, founded in 2021, manufactures high-performance servers for AI, HPC, rendering and scientific research in-house in the UK, producing everything from chassis to circuit boards under one roof. Another way in which Sytronix stands out is by focusing on performance per watt rather than brute force. Instead of basing its record-breaking performance on overclocking, which pushes hardware beyond safe power limits, it prioritises intelligent tuning and engineering design to maintain or lower energy consumption levels while delivering world-class performance. This gives customers servers that are not only the fastest in the world, but greener and more cost-efficient, to the point where many clients have been able to cut hardware bills and energy consumption by up to 50% by replacing entire racks of workstations, render servers and NAS machines with a single Sytronix system. Having established partnerships with AMD, NVIDIA and ASUS, and with new modular and scalable platforms in the pipeline, Sytronix is now aiming to position itself as a British alternative to Dell or Supermicro by expanding into software IP and infrastructure builds and creating a fully integrated ecosystem.
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