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01732 759725 14 BULLETIN New partnership Pax8 has announced a global partnership with Isoolate to provide managed service providers endpoint security solutions for all devices. Partners now have access to high quality technology to protect their clients from sophisticated cyberattacks, keeping them safe on any device. Jared Pangretic, SVP of Sales at Pax8 said: “Pax8 is thrilled to offer partners more security aircover through Isoolate’s innovative solutions and simplified approach to endpoint protection. Through their unique technology, partners can easily and efficiently safeguard their clients from advanced threats and ensure business continuity.” www.pax8.com Open hybrid multicloud solutions Red Hat and Nutanix have announced a strategic partnership to enable a powerful solution for building, scaling and managing cloud-native applications on-premises and in hybrid clouds. The collaboration brings together industry-leading technologies, enabling installation, interoperability and management of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Nutanix Cloud Platform, including Nutanix AOS and AHV. Because of its distributed architecture, Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers an IT environment that is highly scalable and resilient, and well-suited for enterprise deployments of Red Hat OpenShift at scale. The platform also includes fully integrated unified storage, addressing many tough challenges operators routinely face in configuring and managing storage for stateful containers. www.redhat.com • www.nutanix.com PaperCut reaches number 1 IDC has placed PaperCut at number 1 for market share in its recently published Worldwide Device and Print Management 2020 Share report . With a reported 10.8% market share, co-founder and CEO Chris Dance couldn’t be happier: “I’m thrilled to see our hard work result in taking the number 1 spot for market share in print management software,” he said. “2020 was tough by any measure,” he continued. “I am so thankful to our partner network. Our partners doubled down on their customer-first ethos and gave great care and respect to all new and existing customers who were encountering hybrid work challenges for the first time.” www.papercut.com OBS hosted in the cloud In collaboration with Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), Alibaba‘s cloud solutions will be supporting service delivery for rights-holding broadcasters (RHBs) for the first time during the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Built upon the platform provided by Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group and Worldwide TOP Partner, OBS Cloud offers new models for content delivery that drive operational efficiency and greater agility. Between 7,000 and 9,000 short-form content clips are expected to be produced by the OBS Content+ crew to help enhance RHB coverage. 17 RHB organisations and four news agencies have subscribed to the full service of receiving those clips through a user-friendly web-based interface. The thousands of clips can be accessed by the RHBs’ digital and social media teams from any location in the world to supplement their own Olympic coverage. www.alibaba.com Sage Partner Cloud expands programme Sage has expanded its Sage Partner Cloud programme to the UK and Ireland market. This bespoke programme, also available in the US and Canada, is designed to enable Sage partners to successfully move customers to the cloud at a pace that suits their business – providing the tools, expertise and partnerships needed. In the UK and Ireland, partners reselling Sage 200 professional can access the programme and its benefits by becoming a managed service provider for their customers. The programme, powered by the Sage Provisioning Portal on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, automates, simplifies and reduces the time needed to get customers live. Iain Barker, Managing Director, Solutions for Accounting, said: “Supporting our customers’ business continuity has been key over the last 18 months and the ability to work anywhere at any time has been paramount. We are really excited about the new Sage Partner Cloud deployment option. Customers are seeking to move their critical business applications to the cloud, and now, we can deploy Sage 200 on Microsoft Azure, swiftly, securely and efficiency.” www.sage.com The future of voice calling Microsoft and BT have teamed up to drive innovation and growth in the telecoms sector and shape the future of voice calling. As part of the agreement, BT’s global managed voice services will transition to the cloud. The partnership paves the way for the development of new cloud-based products and services for BT’s voice customers and the wider telecoms sector. www.microsoft.com • www.bt.com OBS Contribution Distribution Unilateral Room: OBS Cloud offers new models for content delivery during the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020