BULLETIN Strategic partnership KOMSA AG and Westcoast (Holdings) Ltd are establishing a close strategic partnership. With a combined turnover of more than EUR 5.5 billion, KOMSA and Westcoast will become the largest private sales, marketing and service partner for global brands in the technology industry in Europe. In the course of the merger, Westcoast will take over the shares from KOMSA’s founders. The deal will see KOMSA strengthen IT competence and gain access to markets in the UK, Ireland and France, where it has not been significantly active to date. “The main driver is the convergence of the IT and telecommunications infrastructure, which opens up completely new applications and productivity gains for companies,” said Pierre-Pascal Urbon, CEO and CFO of KOMSA. Commenting on the deal, Joe Hemani, Chairman and founder of Westcoast said: “We will bring our know-how from the highly competitive IT market to the world of telecommunications, which will improve the customer experience and range of available services. With access to the German growth market, where we have not been significantly active to date, we are also strategically expanding our market position.” www.westcoast.co.uk 01732 759725 10 Powerful partner promotions CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full fibre platform, has now launched a brace of special promotions aimed at supporting partner sales of ethernet services into 2023. The first offers zero installation cost on new 12-month national or internet access contracts for ethernet connections. Under the second, partners can offer CityFibre’s ethernet flex service that provides assured rates up and down of 200Mbps with a burstable option of up to 1Gbps, for the price of a standard 100Mbps service. The offers are available immediately and will be in place until at least 31 March 2023. “As well as giving customers more reasons to invest without delay, they will help partners to have the best possible end to the year – and hit the ground running in 2023,” said Andy Wilson, Sales Director – Wholesale Channel at CityFibre. “We’re all about doing things better. Providing better services and support and giving our partners a better chance of winning more business. These promotions give partners an even stronger value proposition to take to market. It’s a great opportunity for them to close more business before the end of the year and to get 2023 off to a flying start.” Partners can find details of the offers and place orders for these services in CityFibre’s partner portal – synergi. https://cityfibre.com/ TD SYNNEX extends reach of Red Hat solutions TD SYNNEX has announced an expanded collaboration with Red Hat, a leading provider of enterprise open source solutions. The collaboration focuses on extending the reach of Red Hat’s solutions among independent software vendors in Europe. TD SYNNEX will enable ISVs to fast-track their Red Hat offerings with a standardised process for program access and consistent, streamlined execution across the region. TD SYNNEX partners can accelerate their ability to invest in business growth through the extensive finance and credit solutions offered by the company. Anthony Greenhalgh, Vice President, Data Centre, Europe, TD SYNNEX said: “Red Hat is a leader in its field and this extended collaboration brings a great opportunity for our partners to increase the pace of technology change in their markets, building cloud native applications on robust and innovative open source solutions. We look forward to leveraging our team’s deep expertise to extend the reach of Red Hat open source solutions across our extensive partner ecosystem.” https://uk.tdsynnex.com/ Rate my apprenticeship TD SYNNEX has seen its apprenticeship programme ranked sixth in this year’s Rate My Apprenticeship poll. The national scheme rates employers based on marks provided by apprentices themselves. “At a time when skills are at a premium, our apprenticeship programme is helping to bring more confident and talented people into the industry,” said Sandie Jackson, Apprentice Programme Manager at TD SYNNEX, UK. “Our apprenticeship programme is something we are honoured to provide. Our ethos is to build careers not just jobs for young people who feel that college or university is not for them. Being rated this highly by Rate My Apprenticeship is a privilege, as students decide it themselves.” https://uk.tdsynnex.com/ Exertis partners with CT4 Exertis has partnered with CT4 to distribute the company’s SaaS solutions in the UK. CT4 offers data protection services to simplify data control and safety processes. The Australian firm has expanded its distribution efforts, most recently with Exertis. CT4’s Cirrus backup software – a trusted, cost-effective Microsoft 365 backup solution – makes CT4 a reliable provider of protection for clients’ data from accidental deletion or ransomware. Exertis Cloud Services Director, Rik Hubbard, said: “We are thrilled to be distributing CT4’s data backup services. The Cirrus Backup service forms a key part of helping our partners protect their customers’ Microsoft 365 data against accidental loss or malicious actors. The all you can eat value of the service makes this a simple bolt on to any user licence.” www.exertis.co.uk 10 years · I00 issues Andy Greenhalgh Andy Wilson Sandie Jackson Rik Hubbard
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