technologyreseller.co.uk 37 TECHDIGEST continued... protection (e.g. immutable backups, air-gap capabilities), a unified management interface and deduplication that can reduce network load by up to 99% and storage needs by 50%. https://sy.to/ap … Keepit, an independent, cloud-native data protection and backup provider, has completed a $50 million funding round led by existing investor One Peak and EIFO, the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark. The company’s third equity investment in the past four years brings the total of funds raised to approximately $90 million and will enable Keepit to accelerate its global expansion strategy, strengthen its partner network and intensify its product development. Keepit’s SaaS data protection platform purposebuilt for the cloud already supports five million users globally. www.keepit.com … Zyxel Networks is migrating partners in Europe to a new program that incentivises them to offer managed cloud networking services based on its Nebula cloud management platform – the greater the number of Zyxel Networks devices managed using Nebula, the greater the benefits to partners. Kevin Drinkall, Director, Marketing and GTM Strategy EMEA, said: “This is an important milestone in the development of our channel strategy that will ensure our partners are rewarded for putting their focus on Zyxel Networks and building their business around our products. By building their managed services client base, partners will also drive their sales of Zyxel Networks’ WiFi access points, firewall appliances and switches, growing their product sales alongside their services revenues.” In addition to a multi-tenant Nebula licence for MSPs, the programme gives Prime and Elite partners a new Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) subscription that will allow them to flex the number of devices they use up and down, paying only for the number active that month. … Cisco has launched an end-to-end solution purpose-built to protect the development and use of AI applications so that organisations can advance AI initiatives with confidence. Cisco AI Defense does this through the Discovery of all AI workloads, applications, models, data and user access across a distributed cloud environment; the Detection of misconfigurations, security vulnerabilities and adversarial attacks that could put AI applications at risk; and the Protection of runtime AI applications against rapidly evolving threats, including prompt injections, denial of service and data leakage. For developers it provides one set of AI security and safety guardrails that work for every application; and for security teams it helps prevent data leakage and the poisoning of proprietary data by providing visibility of AI-enabled apps used by employees, access controls to restrict employee access to unsanctioned AI tools and data and threat protection. cisco.com/go/ai-defense … WatchGuard Technologies is enhancing its existing 24/7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service with the acquisition of ActZero, a provider of MDR services with proactive, rapid and automated threat response and cross-platform, AI-driven threat analysis. ActZero’s technology and teams will become the foundation of the WatchGuard MDR product line and the extra capacity and expertise they provide will enable WatchGuard to extend its MDR service to the full WatchGuard portfolio and third-party security products such as Microsoft Defender, while enabling more MSPs to add AI-powered MDR capabilities without building and maintaining their own in-house security operations centre (SOC). WatchGuard.com … Bitdefender has launched a new Technology Alliance Partner program to promote interoperability between partner technologies and the Bitdefender GravityZone Platform, the company’s flagship unified security and risk analytics solution incorporating EPP, EDR and XDR. The programme gives resellers and MSPs new opportunities to sell validated solutions in multi‑vendor environments, while enabling customers to enhance their security operations by seamlessly integrating best-of-breed technologies into their ecosystem. As part of the programme, Bitdefender will work with technology partners to assess and qualify how their solutions could integrate with the GravityZone Platform, including through both public and non-public APIs. Once a potential integration is qualified, Bitdefender provides the partner with SDKs, software, documentation and technical support to build, test and validate the integration. https://www.bitdefender.com … Cybersecurity and data protection company Acronis has added Brentford FC as a #TeamUp Partner, with award-winning MSP Littlefish acting as the Acronis #CyberFit Delivery Partner. The partnership will see the Premier League football club safeguard its systems and data with Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, including Aries Global invests in Workspace 365 Digital workspace software provider Workspace 365 is aiming to accelerate its international expansion through a partnership with Aries Global, a global federation of founder-led software companies set up by technology growth investor Michael Mitterlehner and former Snowflake executive Thibaut Ceyrolle. Aries Global has acquired all the shares previously held by Value Creation Capital and Oost NL, making it one of three shareholders in the business along with co-founders Erik Nicolai and Hans de Graaf. More than 2,300 organisations and 130 channel partners worldwide currently use Workspace 365’s all-in-one, adaptive digital workplace to give employees personalised access to the applications (legacy and cloud), company information and documents they need via one intuitive user dashboard. Founded in the Netherlands in 2010, Workspace 365 expanded into the UK in 2021, opening a global hub in Manchester. www.workspace365.net Kevin Drinkall
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