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01732 759725 14 BULLETIN Sharp/NEC announces first European global partnership Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe has announced Kinly, a global specialist in video collaboration services, as the first European partner to join its global partner program. The partnership will be focused on joint areas of competence and expertise between the two international partners, including audio visual solutions, collaboration solutions for the workplace and communication solutions for modern buildings. Sharp/NEC’s global partner program is part of its Sharp/NEC one global initiative and is designed to provide international support and services to its integrator partners. Kinly will receive dedicated resources, as well as pre-sales and post-sales support from the Sharp/NEC global team; access to its global technology portfolio, pricing, partner status, executive sponsorship, access to marketing development funds, special demo discounts and a global bounty programme. www.sharpnecdisplays.eu Ringover launches indirect sales channel Telephone operator Ringover is turning to indirect sales to grow its market share in the UK and Europe. The French SaaS software publisher has designed a cloud telephony solution that allows users to make unlimited calls from their CRM, from any device to 110 destinations and is now looking to form new relationships with distributors, resellers, integrators and telephony specialists to increase its market share. The company aims to build a network of 100 partners across the UK in one year. Ringover has set itself the objective of building a network of local partners that can guarantee the success of the distribution of its product on a large scale and has built a dedicated team led by Commercial Director Thomas Clotteau, who will ensure the project’s success. He said: “Our partners will have access to a real growth driver in a dynamic market where the integration of telecoms with IT is now a necessity to thrive in a changing environment." www.ringover.co.uk Accelerating cloud adoption Nutanix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have announced an expanded partnership to accelerate hybrid cloud and multi cloud adoption by offering Nutanix Era, a multi- database operations and management solution, bundled with HPE ProLiant servers, as a service through HPE GreenLake. The fully managed cloud service enables customers to deploy applications and databases in minutes and benefit from the agile, elastic and pay-per-use capabilities of the cloud, while gaining the governance, visibility and compliance of an on-premises environment. This latest collaboration demonstrates the continued momentum and success of HPE Greenlake with Nutanix to provide customers with managed hybrid cloud services. HPE and Nutanix have seen an approximate 80% year- on-year increase in ACV bookings during the first calendar quarter of 2021, including wins for HPE ProLiant DX servers, and HPE GreenLake with Nutanix. www.nutanix.com • www.hpe.com End to end security for Google Workspace Thales CipherTrust Manager and SafeNet Trusted Access have been integrated with Google Workspace Client-side encryption (beta coming soon), a new privacy and confidentiality offering for Google Workspace users. Providing enhanced key management capabilities and identity protection, customers can benefit from improved regulatory compliance and data ownership by allowing them to maintain ownership of keys used to encrypt Google Workspace documents. Through this partnership, Thales provides enterprises with the tools to manage how their keys are used, the conditions they set for access and manage an identity service for Workspace users. Organisations will be able to implement conditional access, enforce the appropriate level of authentication and offer smart single sign-on for users logging onto Google Workspace. The joint solution from Thales gives organisations the power to determine who and how users access Google Workspace, and who can use encryption keys to access a Google Workspace file. www.thalesgroup.com Strategic multi-year partnership Five9 has announced a new strategic partnership with Mitel. Mitel will now feature the Five9 Intelligent Cloud Contact Centre as its exclusive contact centre as a service (CCaaS) partner for its worldwide client base. Together, Five9 and Mitel will provide a holistic offering for organisations that value an integrated contact centre and unified communications solution as part of their overall collaboration and total experience strategy. Mitel’s global customer base and channel partner ecosystem will now have access to the full breadth of the Five9 product portfolio – including the core Five9 Platform, Workforce Optimisation (WFO), Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Agent Assist, and Workflow Automation (WFA). www.five9.com Databarracks acquires 4sl Databarracks has acquired 4sl, for an undisclosed sum to create a combined company with 75 staff, including 50 data protection experts. Peter Groucutt, Managing Director of Databarracks said: “Over the past twelve months we have been transforming our core services. We have migrated our customers’ backups and disaster recovery workloads from our data centres into Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. We are now the largest public cloud backup and disaster recovery specialist in the UK. “With 4sl, we are adding enterprise capability and the ability to transform legacy tape environments. Together we are offering modern data protection to organisations in the UK and around the world. We have expertise across the leading backup, replication, storage and cloud technologies. We are in a strong position and the business is poised for growth.” www.databarracks.com SEE PAGE 38