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Encourage, nurture, unite

Vodafone’s Head of Partnerships and Alliances, Kathy Quashie, discusses her experiences of promoting diversity and inclusion initiatives in the telco channel, and what more can be done to improve equal representation in a traditionally male-led industry. Throughout her career, Kathy Quashie, Vodafone’s Head of Partnerships and Alliances has always found …

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Escaping from data lockdown with a digital evolution

With data amassing at an exponential rate, digital transformation continues to be throttled as businesses struggle to achieve the insight they need from the data. To achieve value from data, businesses need to be able to access what they need, when they need, by the right people, in a usable …

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Casting the net globally

Simon Thompson, SVP, Global Customers, Westcon explains how customers can lean on specialist distributors for global deployment  The global economy is rapidly changing and growing in complexity. Technology is transforming, cloud adoption accelerating and new, disruptive vendors are entering the space without having the traditional routes to market. End user …

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The ‘new normal’ of home working

Thorsten Kurpjuhn, European Market Development Manager at Zyxel advises how resellers and MSPs can support businesses and their networks for remote workers during the coronavirus restrictions  With much of the world in various stages of lockdown and office working restrictions in place due to the ever-growing impact of the Coronavirus, …

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Raising the shield against the risks of smart tech

With the continually growing number of smart devices being connected to the network, end point security needs to be much more carefully considered as Dave Waterson, CEO, SentryBay explains. The prevalence of smart tech being used in businesses is growing exponentially. Internet of Things endpoints have been projected by Gartner …

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Creating the home security matrix

Simon Buckingham, Brand & Marketing Manager, EZVIZ UK discusses the impact IoT has had on home security and the array of offerings now available as part of an integrated home automation infrastructure. In an ever changing world, it sometimes calls for ever evolving products and services. More than ever products …

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A new lease of life

Many businesses are turning to the second life IT equipment market to maintain and upgrade their existing IT infrastructure for up to ten years, just as many consumers are freely buying secondhand and refurbished tech as a way of cost effectively owning the latest and more up to date devices. …

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Transformative thinking

It’s the 21st century but still in many instances the issues of racial and sexual inequality persist. 2020 has been a year of great change and has seen the uprising of ‘Black lives matter’ campaigners stand up and fight for equality and equal representation and this may just be the …

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Creating a culture of diversity

PCR talks to Nancy Hammervik, EVP, industry relations at CompTIA about why diversity in the channel is so important in creating a work place of inclusion The tech industry is predominantly white and male, which has historically made it challenging for underrepresented minorities to gain a foothold in leadership. But …

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Refined practices and continued focus will reinforce cybersecurity landscape in 2020, New CompTIA report finds

Organisations are building confidence that their cybersecurity practices are headed in the right direction, aided by advanced technologies, more detailed processes, comprehensive education and specialised skills, new research from CompTIA finds. Eight in 10 organisations surveyed for CompTIA’s State of Cybersecurity 2020 report said their cybersecurity practices are improving. At the same …

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