technologyreseller.co.uk 37 continued... TECHDIGEST fintech company. The topi platform, recently appointed a UK funding partner by Lenovo Global Financial Services (LGFS), gives IT resellers and vendors the ability to offer subscription based hardware solutions to business customers with a streamlined journey, from quote to credit approval to contract, that takes just minutes. It can be seamlessly embedded into a reseller’s sales environment – e commerce checkout, telesales operation or point of sale – enabling sellers, in just a few clicks, to provide an instant DaaS price as an attractive alternative to upfront cash purchases or traditional lending. The platform already operates in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium. www.peacsolutions.co.uk … Airstride has launched what it claims is the first autonomous AI agent designed to replicate the human workflow for B2B partner acquisition on a pan-European scale. Carmen analyses thousands of companies against a 12-point scoring model, covering portfolio compatibility, go to market alignment, customer profile fit, buyer persona relevance, commercial overlap and other factors. Once it has created a shortlist, the agent reaches out to potential partners explaining why the partnership makes sense, how it creates mutual value and how that value benefits the individual recipient and their role specifically. Airstride CEO and co-founder Max Edwards, who previously grew partner networks for a European cybersecurity vendor, says channel partnerships are still largely built using spreadsheets, manual LinkedIn research and generic outreach, which limits scale and consistency. He said: “Carmen replaces this entire workflow within a single conversational AI agent that can continuously assess markets, form partnership hypotheses and execute outreach enabling teams to scale revenue acquisition without scaling headcount…Our early users are already seeing faster partner acquisition cycles and higher response rates, without outbound sales teams or traditional partner operations.” https://airstride.ai/carmen-ai As part of its mission to build a marketplace of fibre networks and services that enable the channel to move faster and compete more effectively, wholesale connectivity provider AllPoints Fibre Networks (APFN) is bringing Sky Business Wholesale’s national Ethernet products to its aquila platform. The platform already provides access to more than 20 million business and consumer FTTP premises through Openreach, CityFibre and BT Wholesale. Adding Sky’s Ethernet network makes aquila an even more compelling route to market for partners delivering both broadband and business connectivity. APFN partners can now consume Sky Business Wholesale Ethernet directly through aquila, with no additional development, integrations or operational overhead. Services appear alongside APFN’s existing business and consumer FTTP products, all managed through a single platform. Other benefits include national reach, builtin automation, real-time service visibility and straightforward commercials. Ordering, updates, fault management and service insights sit in one place, supported by API-driven workflows, removing the burden of managing multiple contracts, systems and integrations. APFN is hoping to add additional Sky Business Wholesale products, services and capabilities in the future. https://allpointsfibre.uk/aquila … WatchGuard Technologies, a provider of unified cybersecurity for MSPs, has expanded its managed detection and response (MDR) services with WatchGuard Open MDR. This extends 24/7 detection and response to third-party tools alongside WatchGuard technologies, enabling MSPs to deliver high-margin full-stack managed security services across diverse customer environments without forcing disruptive platform changes. Other benefits for WatchGuard MSPs and their clients include unified visibility across endpoints, identity, network, cloud and productivity tools; 24/7 expert monitoring and validation through WatchGuard’s SOC, eliminating the need to build one’s own; and a rapid, coordinated response that isolates threats before they spread and disrupt operations. WatchGuard.com … IT cost and risk consultancy Source Code Control is introducing a new FinOps and cost optimisation service with a unique guarantee to save customers more money than it costs or refund their subscription. Designed to help SMBs across Europe take back control of their cloud costs, MyBetter.cloud provides comprehensive analysis of a company’s cloud estate and identifies how much they can shave off their monthly bill, which resources or services can be optimised and where storage costs can be reduced. It can also forecast yearly savings and highlight any missed best practices. MyBetter.cloud pricing starts at £99+ VAT per month for up to 20 Cloud Virtual Machines and is available to MSPs, resellers and cloud consultancies from Microsoft Marketplace or directly from Source Code Control. www.sourcecodecontrol.com … MSP Finance Team, a financial management solution created exclusively for managed service providers, is responding to MSPs’ growing preference for peer-led communities rather than sales-focused conferences by scaling its motorsport programme from a single annual meetup to two flagship events. With spaces for up to 50 MSP leaders at each, the New Summer Karting MSP Meetup at Daytona Milton Keynes (16 July 2026) and the BTCC MSP Meetup at Brands Hatch (9 October 2026) provide a relaxed environment in which MSPs can build genuine relationships with industry peers. https://mspfinanceteam.com/ Pulsant opens high-density data centre in Milton Keynes UK data centre and digital infrastructure provider Pulsant is helping to meet demand for high-performance, sovereign infrastructure with the completion of a £10 million investment in a new high-density data hall in Milton Keynes. Located within the UK’s Oxford-Cambridge tech supercluster and part of Pulsant’s platformEDGE web of 14 UK data centres interconnected by a 400Gb capable network, the 1.2MW (megawatts) infrastructure expansion is purpose built to handle highdensity computing tasks including intensive AI, machine learning and accelerated workloads associated with financial services, healthcare, biotech, IT and gaming. Pulsant says that with just two milliseconds’ latency to London Docklands and Slough, the Milton Keynes site offers a compelling alternative to London for UK businesses and US-based companies looking to gain a UK foothold. CEO Rob Coupland said: “The £10m expansion of our Milton Keynes data centre is another big investment in our digital platform to meet hunger for high-density compute power. UK digital infrastructure is facing unprecedented demand. With AI-ready capacity in short supply, bringing high performance, flexibility and choice to regional locations is critical. For organisations looking for ultra-low latency, international connectivity and UK sovereign compute power, Milton Keynes is a great option compared to constrained and costly London data centres which lack the opportunity for expansion.” https://www.pulsant.com/milton-keynes-high-density
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