Print.IT Reseller - issue 80

01732 759725 12 BULLETIN Sales milestone Konica Minolta is close to its 200th AccurioPress C14000 Series installation in its European territory only eight months after sales started. Unveiled across the world a year ago, the device prints at 140 pages per minute and is 40% faster than any other toner-based machine from Konica Minolta. Together with the AccurioPress C12000, a second model in the series that has a speed of 120 ppm, the flagship production presses are Konica Minolta’s first foray into the high-volume toner printing segment. www.konicaminolta.co.uk TIBCO completes acquisition TIBCO Software Inc. has successfully closed the acquisition of Information Builders, Inc. (ibi). With the acquisition closure, TIBCO will focus on business alignment and resource mapping for the ongoing health and support of its expanded customer base and worldwide partner network. TIBCO’s range of advanced products, including the TIBCO Spotfire and TIBCO Cloud Integration offerings, will provide ibi customers and partners with an array of additional modern solutions to solve their critical business challenges. ibi’s offerings will further enhance TIBCO’s portfolio, delivering even more value to new and existing clients across the numerous industries where TIBCO and ibi share deep expertise. www.tibco.com OutSystems and AWS OutSystems has entered into a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to accelerate application development and adoption of cloud services at scale. The collaboration will enable OutSystems to deliver deeper integrations with AWS services in the OutSystems Cloud, allowing customers around the world to quickly put to work enhanced DevOps, data and analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning and other AWS services in the applications that make a difference to their business www.outsystems.com Alibaba Cloud creates partner program Alibaba Cloud has revamped its hybrid cloud strategy to focus on bringing compatibility, security, compliance, scalability and reliability with its newly upgraded product offerings and its Hybrid Cloud Partner Program. To enable joint innovation and service delivery with hybrid cloud partners, Alibaba Cloud launched its Hybrid Cloud Partner Program to provide an ecosystem for capable partners to plan, design and resell services to propel customers’ hybrid cloud adoption journey. Alibaba Cloud will also offer free technical resources to qualified partners under the program including free ZStack licenses with unlimited CPU cores. www.alibabacloud.com M-Files secures € 67 million growth investment M-Files Corporation has received a strategic investment of € 67 million. Bregal Milestone, a European growth capital firm, led the round with current investors Partech, Tesi and Draper Esprit also participating. Antti Nivala, CEO and Founder of M-Files said: “We’ve identified opportunities to accelerate our growth and further expand M-Files’ market penetration, especially in North America. The valuable investment will enable M-Files to deliver further innovations in product development, AI and our cloud platform.” www.m-files.com Thales and Google Cloud join forces Thales has announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud that will accelerate the ability of enterprises to safely migrate sensitive data between public cloud, hybrid and private IT infrastructures. Together, the two companies will offer new capabilities that enable security teams to own and control their encryption keys while helping to fulfil heightened regulatory requirements amidst today’s highly distributed workforce. Building on a multi-year history of innovation around a variety of cloud security initiatives, Thales and Google Cloud will empower customers to leverage the full potential of Google Cloud technology for sensitive workloads while gaining the external key management needed to control and secure data across hybrid cloud IT environments. www.thalesgroup.com Kodak Alaris claims scanner line of the year award Kodak Alaris has won BLI’s coveted 2021 Scanner Line of the Year Award. To determine the Scanner Line of the Year Award recipient, Keypoint Intelligence considers current scanners in the OEM’s portfolio that have been submitted for lab testing. The award recognises the vendor whose product line is deemed best overall based on its rigorous lab evaluations. “To win the Scanner Line of the Year Award five out of the last six years is a direct result of our ongoing commitment to invest in the Kodak Alaris portfolio,” said Don Lofstrom, President & General Manager, Alaris division of Kodak Alaris. “Our engineers and product development teams are the unsung heroes who keep Kodak Alaris ahead of the technology curve. With decades of image science expertise, innovation is in our DNA and a driving force behind our company’s success.” www.alarisworld.com Loftware and NiceLabel combine Enterprise labeling and artwork management solutions company Loftware, Inc., and NiceLabel are combining under the Loftware corporate umbrella. This union gives customers and partners an expanded choice of solutions, while providing enhanced labeling capabilities and the benefits of greater investment in cloud-based solutions and technologies. It also brings together 60 years of combined expertise in solving labeling challenges for companies of all sizes throughout a wide range of industries across the globe. www.loftware.com CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS