01732 759725 NEWS : RESELLERS 10 HP extends partner sustainability programme HP has extended its Amplify Impact partner sustainability programme to an additional 24 countries, meaning that more than 10,000 partners in 43 companies can now join HP in having a meaningful impact on Climate Action, Human Rights and Digital Equity and generate valuable business in the process. HP claims that in FY2021, it secured more than $3.5 billion in new sales in which sustainability was a procurement criterion. The company has also added new features to the programme’s automated, modular sustainability planning platform, including Carbon Footprint and 360 Diversity Equity & Inclusion assessments and toolkits designed to inspire community volunteer projects, as well as launching an awards programme. HP aims to enrol at least 50% of HP Amplify partners on the voluntary programme by 2025. To date, 20% of HP’s partners have signed the HP Amplify Impact pledge. www.hp.com Ancoris helps customers go green Cloud services provider Ancoris, which helps businesses innovate and transform through the use of Google Cloud, is enabling customers to add carbon footprint reduction to their cloud migration and IT modernisation planning with the launch of its new Ancoris GreenLab service. Created by Ancoris to help organisations understand the carbon impact of migrating to the Cloud from on-premise and hosted IT deployments, GreenLab also quantifies the financial business case. Ancoris CEO Andre Azevedo said: “I believe that our GreenLab solution is the best way for Ancoris to have a wider impact on sustainability beyond our own organisation, by helping as many companies as possible to add carbon footprint reduction to their migration business case. This can be up to 80% depending on where you run your workloads today.” https://www.ancoris.com/greenlab Neil Muller Digital Space appointed BT Wholesale Elite Partner Technology platform and solutions provider Digital Space has reached the highest level of the BT Wholesale partner programme, becoming one of just a handful Elite partners in the UK. BT Wholesale Partner Plus categorises partners in three tiers – Partner, Premium and Elite –on a points-based system centred around growth, revenue and the partner’s ability to deliver BT’s services to customers. Neil Muller, CEO of Digital Space, said: “By achieving Elite status, we now have an even stronger foundation to provide trusted technical advice and deliver unrivalled results. Our access to BT Wholesale’s early access programme allows our customers to benefit from a truly unique and exclusive customer experience. During a time of considerable digital innovation, such as the PSTN Switch Off, we can help customers respond fast to evolving technological change to meet demand, gain competitive advantage and drive future success.” www.digitalspace.co.uk n Digital Space has selected Mind (for the first time), long-term customer St John Ambulance and local homeless charity Newark Emmaus Trust as the focus for its fund-raising activities in 2022. Last year, the organisation raised £20,000 for its nominated charities and it is aiming to exceed that figure this year. Kyndryl and Pure team up Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, and storage as-a-service pioneer Pure Storage have announced a global alliance to deliver mission-critical capabilities to enterprises. The alliance will see Kyndryl expand its Pure skills and capabilities and become a key delivery partner for Pure, including the delivery of jointly optimised solutions that address the challenges enterprises face in relation to application and infrastructure modernisation, automation, multi-cloud management and containerisation. All new and enhanced joint offerings can be delivered as-aservice and charged on a consumption basis. www.kyndryl.com UK first for Softcat and Trend Micro Softcat, a long-time Gold partner of Trend Micro Incorporated, has become the first UK and Ireland partner to be promoted to the Platinum tier of the cloud security company’s partner programme. Its elevation follows triple digit year-on-year growth in revenue from Trend Micro solutions and services and the addition of numerous new logos. www.trendmicro.com • www.softcat.com Capita agrees sale of Trustmarque As part of a strategy to reduce its debt by selling a number of non-core businesses, Capita, the consulting, transformation and digital services business, has agreed to sell IT services and solutions provider Trustmarque to One Equity Partners for £111m on a cash free, debt free basis. Taking into account cash-like and debtlike items, Capita expects to receive net proceeds of circa £115m at completion. An additional £3m is receivable by Capita contingent on certain future events. The sale of Trustmarque, following those of software businesses AMT Sybex and Secure Solutions and Services, will strengthen Capita’s balance sheet and enable it to focus on its two core divisions of Capita Public Service and Capita Experience. The proceeds from these three sales mean that Capita has already reached its target of £700m in total disposal proceeds by June 2022. Capita CEO Jon Lewis said: “We are now focused on selling the remaining businesses in our Portfolio division, with the goal of disposing of the majority by the end of 2022.” Trustmarque, erstwhile technology pillar of Capita’s Portfolio division, provides software and hardware re-sale, IT managed services, IT professional services, unified communications, testing and quality assurance and security penetration testing. Its net reported revenue and profit before tax for the year to 31 December 2020 were £122m and £16m respectively. www.capita.com • www.trustmarque.com Andre Azevedo
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