RESELLER NEWS 12 01732 759725 shared ambition to support high-growth AI workloads and reinforces Cobalt Park’s position as a key hub for the UK’s AI and digital infrastructure strategy.” www.forfusion.com www.stelliumdc.com … Digital Space now a Cisco 360 Managed Services Expert Digital Space has reinforced its position as a provider of secure, scalable managed services built on Cisco technology by achieving Cisco 360 Managed Services Expert status, formerly known as Cisco Gold Provider. This builds on its existing Cisco Powered Services designations across Meraki Access, Meraki Security and Meraki SD WAN and Customer Experience Specialisation. Richard Beeston, Chief Technology and Operating Officer at Digital Space, said: “Achieving Cisco 360 Managed Services Expert status reflects the maturity of our managed services capability and the strength of our partnership with Cisco. It also demonstrates the standards we have embedded across the business as part of our wider focus on improving service delivery and customer experience.” … Minding the configurations gap Assured Data Protection, a provider of managed data protection, disaster recovery and cyber-resilience services to enterprises and MSPs, has launched a new managed service to protect and restore critical network and security device configurations in partnership with BackBox. Assured Backup with BackBox addresses the lack of reliable, automated protection for the configurations of firewalls, switches, routers and other core network infrastructure, by providing automated backup, version control and rapid restoration of network and security device configurations in minutes rather than hours. Tony Giannini, Vice President, Global Innovation, Assured Data Protection, said: “Customers rely on network-connected devices every second of every day, yet many have no proven plan to recover them. Replacing a switch, firewall or router can take two to eight hours per device and even longer during a crisis. With this service, we can restore exact configurations almost instantly. For customers with dozens or hundreds of devices, the time and cost savings are enormous.” The BackBox-powered service secures configuration files, stores them in an encrypted off-site repository and enables customers to quickly flash devices back to a known good state after cyber incidents, outages or hardware failures. www.assured-dp.com … Capgemini joins forces with OpenAI Capgemini is partnering with OpenAI on the delivery of the latter’s new platform for building, deploying and managing AI coworkers, including co-development of industry-specific solutions for the consumer products & retail, financial services, life sciences and energy and utilities sectors. As an OpenAI Frontier Alliance partner, Capgemini will establish a flagship OpenAI Enterprise Frontier delivery function comprised of AI experts from across its global ecosystem who, working alongside OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, will focus on the business, data, organisational and systems integration challenges faced by clients when moving from AI experimentation to scaled operations across business units, markets and geographies. … AI Launchpad launched by Wavenet Managed services and security provider Wavenet is building on its new Microsoft Copilot Specialisation by launching a 30-day framework to guide organisations through the complexities of achieving a secure, compliant and impactful Copilot rollout. The Copilot Launchpad includes Copilot Licensing and four seven-day structured engagements covering technical foundations ...continued Flotek Group gains regional base in Hampshire Flotek Group has gained a regional base in Hampshire with the 15th acquisition since its formation in 2022, that of Andover-based business communication provider FlexiNet. Rebranded as part of Flotek Group, FlexiNet will continue to operate from its Andover office, providing customers in Hampshire and the surrounding region, including London, with VoIP telephony, business mobiles, internet connectivity, IT support and Flotek’s broader managed IT and cybersecurity offering. FlexiNet was already working closely with Flotek Group having received investment from the Group in January 2023. Flotek plans to have fully integrated FlexiNet by the end of May, retaining the services of key members of the FlexiNet leadership team including Craig Barker, who will continue in a partner-facing role as Account Director, and Ryan Mariner, who will remain in a leadership position as Senior Delivery Comms Engineer. Barker said: “With Flotek behind us, we can offer more depth across managed IT and cyber security alongside our existing communications services, and introduce new capabilities in a phased, sensible way. I’m looking forward to continuing to support our partners and helping them get even more value from a joined-up service.” www.flotek.io Richard Beeston
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