01732 759725 08 NEWS : Distributors Pax8 acquires Bam Boom Cloud Cloud marketplace Pax8 has acquired Bam Boom Cloud, a technology consultancy and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central services organisation offering technology solutions with fixed monthly pricing for small and mediumsized businesses. The acquisition creates an opportunity for Bam Boom Cloud to scale its technology solutions for the channel ecosystem, while enabling MSPs to add new services that leverage Bam Boom’s Microsoft Dynamics expertise. With more than 135 employees across the US, UK, Germany, India and Canada, Bam Boom is the Global 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year, Dynamics 365 Business Central. Pax8 CEO John Street said: “Business process automation is on the rise, and the Bam Boom acquisition will enable us to create simple go-to-market strategies and services for partners to build on their Microsoft Dynamics technology offerings.” Vicky Critchley, CEO of Bam Boom, added: “Bam Boom is passionate about helping businesses build a strong foundation with reliable, cloud-based accounting solutions with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Pax8 will enable us to expand our reach and help more businesses grow with Microsoft business solutions.” www.pax8.com Gamma brings Microsoft Teams voice services to Ingram Micro partners In a new partnership between the two companies, Ingram Micro UK is to offer Gamma Communications’ Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams through the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace. Gamma, a Solutions Partner for Microsoft Modern Workplace with Advanced Specialisation in Calling for Microsoft Teams, was one of the first partners for Microsoft’s Operator Connect programme when it was launched in 2021 to enable seamless and integrated calling from the popular application. With 15 years’ experience in delivering Microsoft voice solutions, Gamma offers guaranteed resilience and reliability, easy deployment, simple administration and native fraud management. Ovi Gherghel, Director of Cloud & Cyber Security, UK&I at Ingram Micro, said: “Gamma’s extensive experience in enabling Microsoft Teams voice services will be a major asset to our voice services portfolio and will provide our partners with the opportunity to maximise the value of their own Microsoft services offerings.” www.ingrammicro.com BT Wholesale added to The Fibre Café Strategic Imperatives, a provider of SaaS billing, provisioning, and monetisation solutions for the telecoms industry, has added Europe’s largest wholesale telecoms provider, BT Wholesale, to the list of providers available through its Fibre Café, a market aggregation platform transforming access to the UK’s wholesale connectivity market. The Fibre Café resolves integration challenges caused by multiple interfaces, technology stacks and long lead times by seamlessly connecting disparate connectivity providers, AltNets and communication service providers through a standards-based interface underpinned by a unified API, common processes and supplier-agnostic order journey. The addition of BT Wholesale means The Fibre Café can now provide access to BT Wholesale’s Broadband One suite of products as well as those offered by the group’s B2B gateway. Communication providers that are already connected can access BT Wholesale services without the need for any further development or infrastructure investment. Strategic Imperatives MD Wail Sabbagh said: “Adding BT Wholesale’s connectivity portfolio to the Fibre Café is a major step in delivering our vision of a unified national gateway into the UK connectivity ecosystem. Strategic Imperatives’ commitment to developing and extending the Fibre Café’s innovative ‘build once, connect to many’ model is creating a more equal marketplace, enhancing customer choice and creating a vibrant connectivity wholesale market.” Tunnel vision On January 26, hundreds of ICT partners, suppliers and vendors packed into the tunnels beneath Waterloo station for Digital Wholesale Solutions’ first partner event of 2023. The IT, comms and cloud platform provider put on an unforgettable evening of music, street food and socialising at the award-winning Wunderground venue in Leake Street to celebrate its achievements in 2022 and to discuss its vision for 2023. Entertainment was provided by Capital FM DJ Shayna Marie, radio DJ Scott Mills, magician Guy Parker and street-theatre musicians Spark! The evening was supported by sponsors CityFibre, TalkTalk Wholesale Services, Microsoft, Acronis, BT Wholesale, Sophos, Neos, Pangea and Draytek. https://digitalwholesalesolutions.com/ Free security assessments for VMWare partners TD SYNNEX is offering VMware partners free security self-assessments for their customers worth a total of £27,000 as a way of generating new business. Only available through TD SYNNEX, the three assessments, covering ransomware, cyber security and vSphere+, have been created by CapametriX to provide insights into clients’ security strengths and weaknesses and to recommend action plans to mitigate risk and improve performance. Sam Darling, Cybersecurity Business Development Manager, UK at TD SYNNEX, said: “The CapametriX self-assessment surveys enable the partner to position themselves as a trusted advisor on security to the customer. They can then take that further and become an authoritative source of intelligence and insight in the vertical market segments in which they focus by aggregating all their clients’ completed selfassessments and benchmarking the position of customers in specific areas.” https://uk.tdsynnex.com/
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