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Cybersecurity company ESET has launched its new Partner Programme, designed to help both new and existing partners unlock their full sales potential through a series of incentives, benefits, and training courses. The programme offers partners dedicated account management support along with lead generation and marketing assistance throughout their sales journey. …

Jason Bonoan, Global Product Marketing Manager at Seagate Technology and Alan Ataev, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at AxxonSoft, outline how intelligent systems enhanced by AI and other specialty software can keep staff, employees, students and residents safe. Detecting high-risk scenarios before they escalate: This is one of the core …

British esports organisation Excel Esports has announced an extended its partnership with the UK PC manufacturer Chillblast as its official PC supplier. Excel and Chillblast will “continue to push the limits of PC capability and quality” by introducing innovative collaborations in the gaming and esports space. The new agreement includes the …

QBS Technology Group has announced the merger of the two MSP software distribution companies it has in portfolio, creating a new and highly-focused dedicated MSP distributor based in Warrington called QBS:MSP. The combined company has a strong security bias and will provide software to almost 1,000 MSPs, serving over 40,000 …

Exertis has announced the appointment of Jamie Brothwell as commercial director and Sam Williams as sales director for its accessories business. Both will report to Mike Buley, Exertis consumer managing director. As commercial director, Brothwell will extend her responsibility for accessories and peripherals at Exertis’ Harlow and Basingstoke facilities to include …

Paul Jarrett, Founder and Managing Director of digital product agency Sonin, looks at how remote working presents a valuable opportunity for businesses to evaluate existing operations. Offices up and down the UK remain deserted as the Coronavirus pandemic continues to grip the world. Despite an outstanding effort from people all …

Established by memory and storage manufacturer ADATA Technology in 2008, XPG is a brand that has been steadily growing in the gaming sector. Making an impact in the UK market over the past few years with its range of high-performance memory and SSD products aimed at gamers, esports pros, and …

Exertis has announced a consolidation of its services businesses to “provide an end-to-end integrated portfolio” designed to cover the whole technology lifecycle. The range of services encompass six key areas: Consult: Professional Services to identify business improvements Deploy: Configuration and installation solutions Maintain: 24×7 in-life support solutions Manage: 24×7 fully managed and proactive monitoring …

Both the augmented reality and virtual reality markets are big business for tech companies. With potential application for both consumer and business use, the world of augmented, virtual and mixed reality, also known as XR, is constantly growing. Delving deeper into the VR sector, Research and Markets recently revealed that …

AV and IT distributor Northamber has signed a new partnership agreement with Lifesize, a global innovator of video collaboration and meeting productivity solutions. The agreement will see Northamber promote and distribute Lifesize’s range of video conferencing solutions in the UK. Lifesize combines cloud-based video conferencing services and apps with integrated hardware …

The Wi-Fi networking brand’s Retail Sales Director talks about how its new routers are supporting gamers, what it was like to win a PCR Award, and how TP-Link is handling the current working from home situation. Tell us a bit about your current role at TP-Link. I’m currently sales director …

Richard Brandon, VP of Marketing at RtBrick, discusses why broadband is a critical resource, especially in the midst of the current pandemic. Since the days of sending digital photographs to one another to our more recent passion for streaming our favourite TV shows online, we have found more and more …