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Computer Products Solutions, a division
of Panasonic System Communications
Europe and FusionPipe Software
Solutions, a Vancouver-based developer of
authentication and data security solutions
for enterprises, has announced a new
partnership through which Panasonic
will sell and support FusionPipe’s QuikID
authentication solutions to its European
customers, resellers and distributors.
QuikID is patented software, engineered to
improve end user authentication (lock/unlock)
for ruggedised PCs, laptops, tablets and VPN
networks. It eliminates the need for username/
password combinations, tokens, smartcards,
OTPs (one-time passwords) or USBs, offering a
superior user experience while increasing work
force productivity without compromising data and
network security.
Fusionpipe is one of the latest Independent
Software Vendors to become officially certified and
approved for use with Toughbook or Toughpad
devices, under Panasonic’s new Certified ISV
Programme.
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Panasonic partners with FusionPipe
Zycko joins Nokia global
partner program
Zycko, now part of the Nuvias Group, has
been selected as Nokia’s first pan-EMEA
distributor and will have access to a
comprehensive suite of Nokia solutions.
This partnership marks an important step
forward in the go-to-market diversification at
Nokia, extending channel and value-added
distribution, to help expand the company’s
footprint in the enterprise and mid-market space
across EMEA.
Initially, Zycko will focus on hardware and
software integration of IP routing and optical
transport networks, fibre-based LAN connectivity
infrastructure for buildings/campus’, open
standards DDI management software, and
software defined networking.
Nokia is uniquely positioned to help
communication service providers, governments
and large enterprises deliver on the promise of
5G, the Cloud and the Internet of Things. Nokia’s
solutions are carrier/telco-grade, scalable to meet
the most demanding XLE environments, whilst
offering partners limitless scope to create their
own global services across multiple products.
IGEL Technology
appoints DataSolutions
for distribution
IGEL Technology, a specialist in the delivery
of powerful workspace management
software, IGEL OS powered thin clients,
zero clients and all-in-one client solutions,
has appointed DataSolutions as its
distribution partner to grow its business in
Ireland.
The IGEL range of simple and secure
workspace solutions fits perfectly with
DataSolutions expertise in the Citrix and wider
virtualisation market and its strong network of
value added resellers.
“The knowledge that DataSolutions has of
the Irish market, our technology sector and its
complementary range of virtualisation, cloud,
security and application vendors makes it the
perfect partner for IGEL to continue to grow
its business in Ireland,” said Simon Richards,
Managing Director for UK & Ireland at IGEL
BigTec Unveils NEO
Datacentre transformation VAD BigTec
UK, has launched NEO, a unique platform
delivering an Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
(EHC) for reseller partners; making it faster,
easier and safer for enterprise IT customers
to achieve the flexible, dynamic service
delivery demanded by their business.
NEO combines best-of-breed technologies
from multiple BigTec vendor partners to create
a unique offering that allows maximum choice
over how businesses structure and locate
their processing resources and workloads.
This is achieved through cloud-enabled service
delivery, software orchestration and automation,
providing all the control, visibility and security
necessary to transform workload management.
Nuvias acquires SIPHON
Nuvias Group has acquired SIPHON
Networks, a leading unified
communications solutions and technology
integrator for the channel. The deal will
see Nuvias making a significant investment
in SIPHON to accelerate the integrator’s
expansion, both in the UK and across EMEA.
Paul Eccleston, CEO Nuvias Group, said:
“SIPHON is a great business with an exceptional
reputation in the UC market. Its focus on high
level service and solutions capabilities for the
channel is perfectly aligned with the Nuvias
Group philosophy and strategy.”
Diary date
IT Europa will be staging the tenth
annual European Software & Solutions
Summit on 30 March 2017 in London.
The event, which incorporates the
European ISV Convention, will bring leading
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and
Solution Providers (including Solution VARs
and Managed Service Providers) together
with hardware, software and service
organisations to explore and address the
issues affecting the development of the
IT Industry in Europe and to develop and
strengthen partnerships aimed at supporting
solution-based sales.
Over recent years, ISVs and Solution
Providers have been very much the driving
force behind growth within the IT and
Telecoms markets. This seems set to continue
this year with Gartner now predicting
worldwide spending on software will increase
by 6.0% in 2016, against a backdrop of an
overall decline in global IT spending (-0.3%)
with spending on devices declining -7.5%.
Paul Eccleston, CEO of Nuvias and Jerome Jullien,
VP Partners and Alliances, Global Enterprise &
Public Sector, Nokia
