Industry News
Keep up with what's new in the technology vendor world; the events, the acquisitions and the partnerships.
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Microsoft Product Announcements – Spring 2020
In spring 2020, Microsoft announced some updates to their Office 365 range of products, including: additions to their product line up, name changes and new app features. Changes are in effect from 21st April 2020.
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5 Reasons Why You Should Use Microsoft Teams
Teams is a chat-based collaboration platform designed to integrate seamlessly with the Office 365 productivity suite. It combines the features of meetings, notes, chats and attachments, as well as integrates non-Microsoft extensions. The aim of Microsoft Teams is to make teamwork simple.
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Do I Need to Backup My Office 365 Data?
Microsoft manage the infrastructure, invest in security and they guarantee exceptionally high uptime for their users, they do not backup Office 365 data.
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Windows 7 is Going End of Life
You’ve probably heard talk about the Windows 7 operating system going ‘end of life’, but what does this really mean and how does it affect you and your business? Windows 7 is now in its final year of extended support, which will come to an end on 14th January 2020.
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Microsoft Announce Price Adjustments for On-Premise and Cloud Products
Microsoft have announced a series of price changes taking place across their on-premise and cloud product range, coming into effect on 1 October 2018.
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Microsoft Education Partner Summit December
M-Tech Marketing and Communications Manager, Tamar Keenan attended the Microsoft Education Summit, December 2017, to hear the latest news and updates. Craig Parker, UK Education Partner Lead, got things underway by giving us some education market insights from the Microsoft research department.
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Jamf Nation Roadshow London 2017
M-Tech gladly accepted their invitation to the must-attend event of the year in Apple Management, Jamf Nation Roadshow, London on September 20th 2017. The Jamf Nation Roadshow is a free, one-day event designed to help ease the burden of managing Apple devices.
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Microsoft Education Partner Summit
M-Tech were out in force at the UK Microsoft Education Partner Summit in London on 19th April 2017. Hosted at the beautiful Wellcome Collection, four of the team attended to hear more about the latest in Education from the global technology giant. The afternoon kicked off with some great networking over lunch before heading into the conference suite for the sessions to begin.
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Nutanix .NEXT London 2017
M-Tech made their way to the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel in London on Thursday 30th March to attend Nutanix .NEXT on Tour. With a packed agenda for the day, Martin Lulham – MD, Stuart Taylor – Sales Manager and Tamar Keenan – Marketing Manager were looking forward to hearing about the latest updates and what the roadmap to 2020 looked like. Howard Ting, CMO of Nutanix delivered the opening keynote and even had time to have a quick chat with Martin and Tamar afterwards.
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Palo Alto Networks – Biggest Product Launch Yet
Palo Alto Networks are proud to announce PAN-OS 8.0, their largest product and feature release to-date. Attackers and their methods have become more targeted, sophisticated and automated. To address this, security vendors must continue to evolve to meet these new threats and risks.
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Get more out of your Nutanix investment with RES
RES are announcing their new RES ONE Automation Connector for Nutanix at the Nutanix .Next event in Las Vegas on June 20 – 22, 2016. This is very exciting for both Nutanix and RES customers because it can help extend Nutanix capabilities in several ways.
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M-Tech and DataCore Shortlisted for Storage Awards
M-Tech and storage solution partner DataCore have been shortlisted for Storage Magazine’s Solution of the Year 2016. The winner in this category will ultimately be decided by the Editor of Storage Magazine and announced at the Awards on June 16th, watch this space..!
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Royal Navy Submarine Uses VMware
HMS Artful, the UK’s most advanced nuclear submarine, which is due to begin sea trials in August 2016, has been kitted out with a mini VMware virtualised data centre to control its ‘Common Combat System’, for missile launch.
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RES Joins Forces with Nutanix
RES have recently joined forces with Nutanix by becoming a part of their Elevate Technology Alliance Partner Program. RES’s mission has always been to enable and secure digital workspaces to support today’s workers, giving increased control around both cost and security.
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Most UK Firms Will Move Everything to Cloud – Research
Sixty-three per cent of business decision makers questioned in poll envisage moving entire IT estate off-premise. Most UK businesses foresee a time when they will shift their entire IT estate to the cloud, according to the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF).
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Why a Startup Called Nutanix is Making VMware Absolutely Crazy
An ugly, very public, and somewhat entertaining squabble between a hot startup, Nutanix, and the tech incumbent it challenges, VMware, has taken a new twist, Business Insider has learned. At stake is big up-and-coming $77 billion market that VMware desperately needs.