01732 759725 12 BULLETIN Inclusive employers Canon UK & Ireland has been ranked 42 in The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List 2022/23. Compiled by Inclusive Companies, the list acknowledges and ranks businesses which are most consistent throughout the whole tenure of their organisations and encompass all types of diversity. Now in its seventh year, it has become the definitive cross-industry index harnessing both best practice and innovation with the goal of driving inclusion for all. Debbie Brown, HR Director at Canon UK & Ireland said: “We prioritise inclusivity and diversity, striving to achieve our philosophy of Kyosei – ‘living and working together for the common good’. We would like to thank all our employees, including the BAME Steering Group and Inclusion Network Leads, for their dedication to our people vision to be a diverse organisation that not only reflects our customers’ diversity but ensures we’re an inclusive place to work. We’re delighted to be recognised in The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List and hope to expand our inclusive efforts even further in the years to come.” www.canon.co.uk New partnership Konica Minolta has named Focus Label Machinery as an Accredited Industrial Print Partner. Partnering with Focus Label Machinery as a supplier of the AccurioLabel 230, is a key component in bringing its new wave of digital label technology to the market, which is designed to help print service providers seize growth opportunities in a buoyant but demanding market. Focus Label Machinery Company Director David Lee said: “There are significant opportunities for our customers in the market for short run, high quality labels. Whilst we have always been at the cutting edge of technology, we felt there was something missing from our portfolio that specifically caters for customers that are entering the label market or are embracing digital. The Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 230 provides the perfect balance, allowing smaller label printers to service the market and enabling businesses that may have outsourced these requirements before to bring production in-house.” www.konicaminolta.co.uk SaaS adoption skyrockets Cohesity is seeing exceptional growth and uptake in the adoption of its cloud services, a portfolio of data management and security software as a service products, managed by Cohesity and run on AWS. It has seen a significant increase in the number of customers that have deployed Cohesity SaaS offerings, catapulting from under 60 customers at the end of Q4 FY21 (July 2021) to over 500 customers at the end of Q1 FY23 (October 2022). The company also announced support for new business-critical workloads, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), that can be protected and secured via Cohesity SaaS offerings. And, in an era of escalating cyber threats, it is offering customers access to more Amazon S3 storage options for its cyber vaulting security SaaS offering, Cohesity FortKnox, that can help customers lower costs. www.cohesity.com Lifecycle Software increases customer base Lifecycle Software has announced its billing customer base has grown by over a third (36%) in just eight months whilst also increasing its headcount by almost a quarter (21%) to support the sharp rise in the demand for 5G enabling services, cloud-based platforms and flexible contracts resulting from consumer demands and the impact of the cost of living crisis. www.lifecycle-software.com Thales collaborates with AWS Thales has launched its CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager integration with the AWS External Key Store. Developed with Thales since its inception, the AWS External Key Store combined with CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager offers organisations looking to move critical workloads to the cloud a way to maintain sovereign control of sensitive data throughout their digital transformation journey. “We’ve had a strong technical collaboration with Thales on the development of the AWS External Key Store specification from the very beginning, in part due to their long history of expertise developing hardware security modules and key management services,” said Ken Beer, General Manager, Key Management Service at AWS. “The cloud has become a critical point of operation across businesses, and our combined expertise provides a way of helping organisations address specific needs and know they’re getting industry-best security controls in the process.” www.thalesgroup.com Nutanix rewards partners Nutanix has introduced a new referral program, designed to reward partners across the entire lifecycle of any project. Part of its Elevate Partner Program, the referral program changes the traditional partner-vendor relationship model and recognises the entire partner ecosystem, rather than just the ones that transact the deal. Adam Tarbox, Vice President of EMEA Channel Sales said: “Analysts talk about how customers engage with at least seven partners across the lifecycle of any project and there are multiple touchpoints. Despite this, vendors have traditionally tended to only concern themselves with and reward the partners involved in actual transactions, forgetting the whole ecosystem around each deal and how it comes to life. We’re changing that, and our new referral program is intended to reward more of our partners who are involved across the process – especially those who help customers to shape their strategies in the early stages of any project and support them through the buying process.” www.nutanix.com Adam Tarbox David Lee A night to remember SEE PAGE 22
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