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CMS Distribution is now stocking Spanish based Salicru’s Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems. “This relationship is a perfect fit for our growth plans within CMS and offers us a tremendous opportunity to engage across our customer base. We are looking forward to building a fantastic relationship together,” said Jonpaul Warren, …

Logitech’s new Logitech Sight, is an AI-powered tabletop camera that works with the front-of-room camera Rally Bar or Rally Bar Mini to capture the best perspective of meeting participants and track conversations as they move around the conference room. “We’re no longer all at home in equal-sized video boxes like …

Ingram Micro UK is embarking on a new distribution partnership with Opengear and will distribute Opengear’s remote management technology in the UK and Ireland. Steve Bradbury, Ingram Micro’s Business Unit Director said “Opengear’s out-of-band management solutions allow our customers to offer a higher degree of resilience to the enterprise class …

SYNAXON has launched a new service in the UK to rent hardware combined with software and managed services, without needing to make any upfront investment.  Benefits of the new service include availability on a wide range of products. These can be combined with SYNAXON Managed Services. Every Managed Workplace configuration …

LogRhythm’s new LogRhythm Axon is a cloud-native security operations platform that provides a force multiplier to defend against cyberattacks. Out of the gate, Axon provides visibility across both cloud and on-prem log sources. Key Axon benefits include: Simplified collection and enrichment of logs to boost SecOps productivity and efficiency Enhanced …

Avaya and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise are furthering their partnership to enable both ALE and Avaya customers to innovate using an expanding, increasingly rich and complementary set of capabilities from either company, and painlessly roll them out. “Our common objective is to support our customers in their digital transformation, providing all capabilities …

Confluent, Inc.’s new Stream Designer enables developers to build and deploy streaming data pipelines quickly. “We are in the middle of a major technological shift, where data streaming is making real time the new normal, enabling new business models, better customer experiences, and more efficient operations,” said Jay Kreps, Cofounder …

Kyndryl and Teradata are partnering to help customers apply artificial intelligence (AI) and data modernisation techniques across their environments to accelerate business outcomes and speed time-to-value. The companies will work to combine Kyndryl’s Data and AI services and infrastructure management capabilities with Teradata’s cloud analytics and data platform to help …

ServiceNow is acquiring Era Software. This follows ServiceNow’s acquisition of Lightstep in 2021. “Digital transformation succeeds or fails based on unified observability,” says Ben Sigelman, general manager of ServiceNow’s Lightstep business unit and co‑founder of Lightstep. “Together, ServiceNow and Era Software are set up to deliver a unified and seamless …

Kyndryl and Microsoft are helping customers expand and increase access to valuable mainframe data. Kyndryl is offering customers support to create data pipes that enable connections between the mainframe, including its zCloud platform, and the Microsoft cloud, making it easier to move their mainframe data to the cloud. Customers will …

TPV, TP Vision, AOC and MMD have jointly launched ‘TPV Cares’, a brand-new foundation, that has been curated to help and support people and communities in more than 200 countries. The new foundation covers EMEA, APAC, ASIA and North America) and will provide a variety of volunteer, financial and in-kind …

Acer’s new Swift Edge (SFA16-41) 16-inch OLED laptop is powered by laptop and AMD Ryzen 6000 Series processors and incorporates the Microsoft Pluton security processor. The Acer Swift Edge also features a 4K OLED display supporting 100% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut and 500 nits peak brightness for cinema-grade visuals. …