15 RESELLER NEWS New Edinburgh office for Abacus Following growth of 15% last year and 21% in 2022, Abacus Group, the alternative investment firm-focused MSP, has opened a new office in central Edinburgh to expand its research and development and customer support capabilities for customers throughout the UK. The MSP, which also has a 40-person office in London, is anticipating growth of 19% this year and a 10-20% increase in headcount. It will be looking to recruit security analysts, cloud architects and systems engineers in the city. ... Apogee sponsoring charity abseil Apogee Corporation, an independent subsidiary of HP Inc, has signed up as lead sponsor of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Charity Abseil, as part of its commitment to support the communities in which it operates. Taking place on June 15, the fundraising event will see novices and experts abseil 100ft down the side of Tunbridge Wells Hospital. Already, more than 100 people have signed up to take part in the challenge. Dom Gryszan, Director of Marketing at Apogee, said: “This is a really special event to be involved in. Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust are an incredibly important part of the community local to our head office, and this is a fantastic way to bring us together.” apogeecorp.com ... Tata helps Co-op with cloud-first strategy Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is expanding its 14-year relationship with Coop by moving the consumer co-operative’s IT systems from a traditional data centre model to a fully managed, scalable cloud environment powered by TCS Enterprise Cloud. Co-op is adopting a cloud-first strategy to provide a digital foundation for future growth, shrink its carbon footprint and improve IT resilience and agility. www.tcs.com ... Marketing toolkit for ITS full fibre network Abzorb, a unified communications and mobile services provider, has created a marketing toolkit for its resellers, in association with business fibre network provider ITS Technology Group. The toolkit gives reseller partners the resources needed to conduct a ‘white label’ marketing campaign promoting ITS’s ultrafast, 10Gbps-enabled full fibre network for internet and cloud access. Ensor MSP Director Phil Norse said: “The marketing toolkit will be very beneficial to us because we can just add in our logo and send it out. By leveraging Abzorb’s and ITS’s marketing expertise, we will be free to focus on selling. The campaign is well designed and executed and we are looking forward to the new leads and business it generates.” ... Simpson joins the elite Simpson Associates, a data transformation partner specialising in data analytics, AI and managed services, has joined an elite group of Azure app migration experts to have Microsoft Advanced Specialisation in ‘Migrate Enterprise Applications to Microsoft Azure’. The Microsoft-focused digital transformation company already has designations for Data & AI (Azure) and Digital & App Innovation (Azure). lorna.appleton@simpson-associates. co.uk ... Global4 partners with ANS Independent technology provider Global 4 and cloud and digital services provider ANS Group have entered into a partnership that will enable both companies to leverage each other’s capabilities to meet the evolving needs of customers. ANS Group, headquartered in Manchester, offers public and private cloud, hosting, security, DevOps, applications and data services. Horsham-based Global4, which recently acquired telecoms, IT and office equipment provider Gemini, giving it a presence in the North of England and Borders, offers a complete service package across hosted telephony, IT, connectivity, energy, business mobile and security. As a member of the ANS partner programme, Global 4 will gain access to an expanded range of digital services, while ANS Group will benefit from opportunities for cross-selling and collaboration. ANS Group CEO Richard Thompson said: “Customers across the UK need assistance with digital transformation and together we can leverage each other’s expertise and experience to deliver worldclass services.” Richard Thompson ANTENNA platform extended to all UK CNI providers FourNet, provider of a secure cloud communications platform and network designed in partnership with the Cabinet Office and trusted by over 40 UK Government departments, is expanding ANTENNA to cover all UK Critical National Infrastructure providers. Hosted in Tier 4 Government Data Centres, the ANTENNA platform offers CNI organisations leading solutions, including next generation firewalls, enhanced SD-WAN security, endpoint, edge and cloud security and 24/7 cybersecurity monitoring and expertise, plus a full spectrum of services including voice, mobile, contact centre, video, messaging and collaboration solutions. Richard Pennington, CEO of FourNet, said: “Due to demand and requests from CNI providers, we are making our award-winning, highly secure ANTENNA cloud platform available to all UK critical national infrastructure (CNI) providers. “Because these organisations are delivering critical services that are fundamental to the smooth running of the country, our economy and the nation’s health and wellbeing, there are bigger barriers to digital transformation and a much higher responsibility and duty of care when it comes to cybersecurity, protection of data and digital resilience. That is exactly what ANTENNA has been designed and built for.” www.fournet.co.uk Richard Pennington
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