Industry News
Softcat managed firewall service reaches 100th customer
Softcat has recently signed up the 100th customer to use its managed firewall support service. The service, which forms part of Softcat’s growing managed services security portfolio, offers clients proactive availability monitoring and protection against malicious attacks over the Internet.
Adobe Launch Creative Suite 6
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the ultimate toolkit for design, Web and video professionals with the unveiling of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 product line and Adobe Creative Cloud - a powerful new releases of 14 CS6 applications and four Creative Suites.
xStorm from Softcat to fight cyber crime
IT provider Softcat is launching a new Cloud service – xStorm, a vulnerability scanning service that will help its clients to keep their public infrastructure secure against the threat of hackers and cyber criminals.
Dell Announces Intent to Acquire Wyse Technology
Dell today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, to significantly extend its desktop virtualisation offerings. The addition of Wyse will expand Dell’s desktop virtualisation capabilities and provide new solutions and services opportunities for the full range of Dell’s enterprise offerings.
Softcat becomes official iMeet reseller in the UK
IT provider Softcat has added iMeet, an innovative video conferencing solution from PGi, to its portfolio of software-as-a-service apps. This news comes hot on the heels of the announcement that Deutsche Telekom has signed an exclusive reseller agreement for the same solution in Germany.
Softcat announced as a new G-Cloud provider
The Government Procurement Service (GPS) has asked IT provider Softcat to join its brand new G-Cloud services framework.
Microsoft announce changes to UK pricing
Microsoft has made an important announcement regarding forthcoming changes in pricing policy that will effect all volume licensing customers within the EU and EFTA area. Beginning on 1st July 2012, prices charged will be aligned to Euro pricing at the prevailing exchange rate. Due to sustained currency differences, some EU/EFTA countries will see changes to non-euro pricing as we establish greater price consistency across Europe. Based on prevailing currency rates, we anticipate price adjustments for the British Pound on 1st July 2012, across all volume licensing programmes
First major service update for Office 365
Microsoft today announced the first major service update for Microsoft Office 365, the company’s next-generation cloud productivity service for businesses of all sizes.
Microsoft globally launches Office 365
Today, at media events around the world, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of Microsoft Office 365, the company's newest cloud service.
Mimecast results point to cloud acceptance
Mimecast the leading supplier of cloud-based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange, has today announced a 57 percent rise in annual revenues for 2011