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RETN Awarded Google Verified Gold Peering Partner Status, Simplifying Cloud Connectivity for Customers

As businesses increasingly rely on cloud services for critical operations, highly available internet connectivity becomes essential. RETN, the leading independent global network services provider, is proud to announce its designation as a Google Verified Gold Peering Partner. This recognition, granted to RETN’s Autonomous System (AS9002), underscores the company’s commitment to delivering top-tier connectivity solutions to its customers across Europe and Asia.

The Verified Peering Partner program is designed to enhance connectivity for customers by identifying Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with superior, reliable, and diverse connectivity to Google.

RETN’s achievement of Gold status in this program is a testament to its technical excellence and robust network infrastructure and provides significant advantages for its customers:

Simplified Connectivity: Customers no longer need to meet Google’s peering requirements. RETN, as a Verified Gold Peering Partner, handles the complexities of peering arrangements, allowing customers to spend less time deploying and managing the technical complexities of Direct Peering. By acquiring IP Transit or Dedicated Internet Access from RETN, customers can let RETN manage peering with the highest quality direct connections to Google.

High Availability: The Verified Gold badge signifies that RETN provides metro-level redundant connectivity, ensuring maximum reliability for customers. The Google badge verifies this redundancy, offering peace of mind that connectivity to Google is highly reliable.

Enterprise-Grade Connectivity: RETN provides connectivity to Google through internet products designed for enterprises. Customers can access Google services with or without the need for an autonomous system number (ASN), and work directly with RETN’s account teams.

Dedicated Private Google Connectivity: All connections to Google through RETN are managed via private dedicated and redundant links spanning RETN’s extensive footprint, leveraging the same infrastructure that supports Google’s own services. This ensures robust and secure access to all Google services.

Access to All Google Services: RETN customers can access a wide range of Google services, including Workspace, Cloud APIs, Cloud VPN, Google Public IPs, and more. Any Google service reachable over the internet can be used with RETN as a Verified Peering Provider.

“The Verified Peering Program is a win-win for Google and ISPs. Google customers benefit from improved connectivity and reliability, and RETN gains a competitive advantage. We’re excited to have RETN as a part of this program and look forward to working together to provide a great experience for our mutual customers,” said Dave Schwartz, Senior Product Manager, Google Global Networking.

“This recognition underscores our dedication to providing the highest quality connectivity solutions to our customers – ensuring robust, redundant, and highly available connectivity to essential cloud services is more critical than ever. This partnership not only enhances our service offerings but also assures our customers that they are receiving enterprise-grade, reliable access to Google’s extensive suite of services,” said Andrey Gazizov, Chief Operating Officer of RETN.

Evolve IP Accelerates Ahead With 2024 Partner Day

Fast-growing cloud collaboration provider, Evolve IP, is gearing up for a successful Partner Day to help resellers drive their businesses further forward.

The day-long event takes place at the Williams Racing F1 Experience Centre in Grove, Oxfordshire on April 18th. It includes innovative talks and fun-related race activities as well as detailing Evolve IP’s expanding product roadmap.

“We will be showcasing solutions, celebrating partners and knowledge sharing,” confirmed Evolve IP EMEA MD Paul Harrison. “In addition, there will be lots of fun F1-inspired activities throughout the day.”

The white-label cloud collaboration service provider generated unprecedented growth and attracted record numbers of new partners last year. Now the company is hailing 2024 as the ‘year to sell’ with new product innovations and enhanced levels of reseller support aiming to increase overall performance.

Insightful

“As a global collaboration provider, we specialise in bringing together unified communications, collaboration tools, contact centre, voice, and omnichannel solutions securely into the cloud,” Harrison explained.

“We recognise the importance of partnerships which is a key cornerstone of our ethos and evolution. Partnerships help create best-of-breed solutions and can unlock new doors, opportunities and deliver greater customer value and service.

“Insightful talks will be combined with interactive workshops as part of driving inspired day of fun and wisdom.”

Harrison concluded: “Our ultimate objective is to enhance today’s hybrid workplace and help make the future of work better for everyone. The Williams Experience Centre never fails to impress, located at the home of the Williams Formula 1 team. We are looking forward to highlighting how we are in pole position to drive our partners further forward.”

The Partner Day 2024 event is supported by technology partners Akixi, iTel, Dubber, Enghouse, Broadsource, Snom, PromptVoice, PRD Intelligence, Jabra, Yealink and Tango Networks. All sponsors will be exhibiting, offering technical demonstrations and playing a major part in the day – working together to promote partner growth and success in 2024. 

More details can be found by visiting: https://www.evolveip.net/en-gb/partner-day-2024

Dell Technologies unveils 2024 Partner Programme

Dell Technologies has launched its 2024 Partner Programme aimed at enabling greater collaboration with partners in Ireland and delivering enhanced profit potential in critical growth areas.

With partners playing a key role in supporting success at Dell for over forty years, the 2024 programme provides a new tiered programme structure to reward partners and enhance growth over the next 12 months.

Strategic updates to the programme to continue rewarding partners include streamlining the Dell APEX Infrastructure offerings into Storage+ and Server+ product categories. The full incentive-eligible Dell APEX portfolio now qualifies for base rebates and behavioural incentives, increasing profit potential for partners.

Partners that invest in and hold the PowerFlex Design 2023 Certification will now be eligible for a stackable 4% rebate kicker on New Business and Competitive Swap incentive opportunities.

Metal-tier partners with a Client+ competency that hit their client peripheral revenue gate can now benefit from a five times multiplier on the base rebate when selling Dell Client Peripherals and two times the base rebate when selling Precision Workstation, Dell Displays & Docks and Dell Latitude Rugged laptops and tablets.

Dell Technologies is also introducing new competencies in Data Science & AI, Edge Solutions, and Sustainability & ESG to align with evolving customer priorities and market opportunities. These competencies aim to validate partners’ expertise in Dell’s offerings and address the growing demand for sustainable technology solutions.

Commenting on the launch of the programme, Mark Hopkins, Channel Director at Dell Technologies Ireland, said: “Partners are critical to our success. That’s why we’ve launched Dell Technologies 2024 Partner Programme. It will further strengthen our collaboration by opening access to new market opportunities and financial rewards for partners. By building on the partnerships we have developed here in Ireland, we can further grow and modernize the core business in the year to come.”

Catherine Doyle, Managing Director of Dell Technologies Ireland added: “At Dell Technologies, our partners are a critical in helping us meet the diverse and rapidly evolving needs of our customers. By adding new capabilities to our newly enhanced Partner Programme, including data science & AI, we can support businesses across Ireland to accelerate their digital transformation plans and better harness the power of GenAI and other emerging technologies.”

For more information about the Dell Technologies Partner Programme visit: https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/dell-technologies-partner-program-seizing-opportunities-to-win-together/

Evolve IP Accelerate Partner Growth Strategy

Fast-growing Unified Communications service provider, Evolve IP, has added a new name to its flourishing reseller recruitment drive – building on a record 12 months of success.

Mercury Maynard is the latest company to take advantage of Evolve IP’s extensive white label as-a-service and hardware portfolio, which attracted unprecedented numbers of new partners last year.

The IT and network support provider has over 25 years’ industry experience – and joins Evolve IP’s enterprise-grade cloud collaboration suite to add the ‘missing link’ to its integrated solutions ethos.

Evolve IP offers partners two natively integrated voice solutions; Cisco by Webex and Microsoft Teams. These leading technologies are complemented by a range of value add propositions within the Evolve IP Anywhere Product Suite that enable any business to streamline and optimise their communication strategies. 

Aligns

Jamie Hughes, UK Sales Director at Evolve IP, highlighted how Mercury Maynard aligns with Evolve IP’s values by offering their customers innovative, reliable, and cost-effective end-to-end solutions that empower customers to drive efficiencies and ‘work from anywhere’.

“Gaining a partner like Mercury Maynard is extremely valuable to us and increases our presence in Essex and East Anglia. They thrive from providing excellent service and care to their customers,” he pointed out.

“Evolve IP is joining them at a time when they are looking to grow within the hosted telephony space, and we are all looking forward to seeing them prosper in the cloud collaboration sector with our support.”

He added: “Evolve IP continues its growth, onboarding innovative partners who have big targets in 2024. Leading the way by providing partners with best-of-breed technologies and keeping things simple for them to deliver great service, is at the centre of everything we do.”

Jamie Hughes, UK Sales Director, Evolve IP

Enthused

Ian Taylor, Founder/Owner of Mercury Maynard, enthused: “As a Managed Service Provider, the only offering missing from our portfolio was telephony. We are excited about the journey ahead, growing with Evolve IP and enhancing our technology services to better support the businesses already in our care. 

“Our shared commitment to a personal approach is at the core of Mercury Maynard’s values and we eagerly anticipate the future where Evolve IP will help take us to the next level and ensure our customers stay ahead of the curve.”

‍About Evolve IP

Evolve IP boasts an international carrier grade Unified Communications platform. It delivers integrated white-label remote workforce technologies, that enable employees to work anywhere – remotely and securely from any location.

Evolve IP’s work anywhere philosophy differentiates its partner channel by breaking down barriers in a challenging communications market by providing industry leading solutions from global technology vendors. This enables partners to deliver uniform, customer focused solutions across the globe backed by a sustainability programme.

Find out more about Evolve IP here 

 

More people can now make money on YouTube with the expansion of its Partner Program to cater smaller creators

YouTube opened up today a new tier in its partnerships program (YPP), enabling eligible creators to activate fan-funding features known as Super Chat, Super Thanks, Super Stickers, and channel memberships in Ireland.

“Creators are the lifeblood of YouTube and we’re invested in making it the most rewarding place for them — creatively, emotionally and financially. We hope that this lower eligibility criteria will help support creators who are early in their YouTube journey, paving the way for a new generation of content creators,” said Julie Dilger, Google Ireland Head of External Communications.

According to a study by Radius, a majority of creators in the Middle East and North Africa, France, Germany, and the UK surveyed in 2023 say YouTube offers more creative freedom and more ways to create than other platforms. In Ireland, over 3,000 channels have more than 10,000 subscribers, an increase of more than 15%, year over year.

These new fan-funding features will be available to creators in Ireland with:

  • 500 subscribers

  • 3 public uploads in the last 90 days

  • Either 3,000 watch hours in the last 365 days or 3 million Shorts views in the last 90 days

  • No active Community Guidelines strike

Community engagement and connecting with viewers is at the core of these new fan-funding features. Super Chat & Super Stickers will allow viewers to purchase brightly colored, pinned chat messages and stickers during live streams and Premieres hosted by creators. Fans can support their favorite creators and stand out from the crowd, while creators get to identify and connect with their top fans + access new revenue.

Super Thanks is an easy way to give back and show appreciation for creators and their content. Viewers have a fun way to show support and stand out in the comments section with colorful comments, while creators can feel the love for their content with every contribution and connect directly with fans.

As for Channel memberships, these will allow viewers to join a creator’s channel through monthly payments and, giving paying viewers members-only perks like badges, emoji, and other goods. Creators can access these new features through the “Earn” tab in YouTube Studio where they will see if they’re eligible to apply for this new tier. Automatic emails will also be sent once a creator qualifies to apply. It can take up to four weeks for the feature to rollout to 100% of creators.

The YouTube Partnerships Programs was one of the first revenue-sharing models on the internet. Creators with more than 1,000 subscribers and have 4,000 watch hours in the last 365 days (or 10 million Shorts views in the last 90 days) will continue to have access to the revenue share from ads and YouTube Premium. Fan-Funding features were announced at YouTube’s Made On YouTube keynote last year.

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Version 1 awarded exclusive Global Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for delivery of National Highways app driving safety on England’s roads

IT service provider Version 1 has been awarded a prestigious accolade by Microsoft for its work with the UK’s National Highways to improve safety across the road network across England.

Dublin-founded Version 1 was named the global winner in the Modernising Applications 2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards, beating off stiff competition from an international field.

The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognise Microsoft partners which have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services, and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with those honoured chosen from a set of more than 4,200 submitted nominations across 100 countries worldwide.

Version 1 was recognised for providing outstanding solutions and services in Modernising Applications for its innovative transformation of a critical application for National Highways’ Incident Liaison Officers (NILOs). The NILO team are responsible for coordinating information on major incidents – multi-vehicle collisions, severe weather, and freight spillages – over 4,500 miles of England’s strategic road network and are vital to the 254 billion passenger and freight vehicle miles travelled across England every year.

The solution has meant the NILO team has increased the speed at which major traffic incidents are reported by 150%, incident closure efficiency by 82% and incident creation by 50%. It replaces a legacy system and is a key enabler of National Highways £27.4 billion Digital Roads Strategy aimed at revolutionizing how the strategic road network is designed, built, operated and used.

The app significantly improves user productivity and incident handling through easier, faster logging, reporting, and information sharing. This has facilitated smoother coordination of emergency services, dissemination of media updates for the public, and enhanced incident management and road network operation.

Crucially, for road users, this means a safer, easier journey and improved journey times, bolstering England’s reputation for having the safest roads globally. It also helps National Highways deliver on its commitment to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on its roads by 50% by 2025.

The project was delivered using Version 1’s collection of quick-start delivery accelerators, known as Foundations, which uses prebuilt solutions which incorporate industry best practices and utilise best-of-breed open source and cloud-native technologies. Foundations enables a reduced time to market, reduced delivery risk, increased alignment to standards and improved security.

Tom O’Connor, Chief Executive Officer of Version 1, said: “We are delighted to have been named as the global winner in the Modernising Applications 2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. The award cements our reputation as a trusted partner of choice to major organisations in the transformation of critical digital infrastructure and we are pleased to have been recognised by Microsoft.

“The National Highways project is a great example of the transformational projects that Version 1 can deliver which significantly improves efficiency and efficacy for our clients. We are particularly proud to have helped National Highways to make England’s roads safer and thank them for partnering with us.”

Nicole Dezen, Corporate Vice President of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft, said: “Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the 2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards! The innovative new solutions and services that positively impact customers and enable digital transformation from this year’s winners demonstrate the best of what’s possible with the Microsoft Cloud.”

Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are announced annually prior to the company’s global partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, which will take place on July 18-19 this year.

Codec named Microsoft Country Partner of the Year for Ireland 2023

Codec, one of Ireland’s leading cloud solutions consultancy companies, today announced it has won the prestigious Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for 2023. The company was honoured among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

The achievement comes following a recent expansion programme launched by Codec. The expansion will create 65 new jobs in Ireland and saw the opening of a new office in London.

The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognise Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services, and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honourees chosen from a set of more than 4,200 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide. Codec was recognised for providing outstanding solutions and services in Ireland.

Commenting on the achievement, Ronan Stafford, CEO, Codec, said: “I am delighted to accept the Microsoft Ireland 2023 Country Partner of the Year award on behalf of our exceptional team at Codec. Their dedication, innovation, and unwavering commitment have driven transformative digital projects for our clients in the Public Sector and Healthcare Sector. This recognition is a testament to their remarkable achievements and the positive impact they have made. Together, we will continue pushing boundaries and shaping a brighter future.”

Speaking about the award win, Martina Naughton, Global Partner Sales Director, Microsoft Ireland, added: “We are delighted to announce Codec as Microsoft Ireland’s Country Partner of the Year for 2023. Codec’s exceptional drive for innovation, their dedication to customer success, and collaborative approach truly set them apart. Their unwavering commitment to assuring delivery of Microsoft’s cloud solutions has been instrumental in enabling their customers to thrive and embrace digital transformation. We look forward to continuing our partnership, developing innovative solutions, now and into the future, as Codec continues to exemplify excellence in leveraging Microsoft technology.”

Established in 1985 and headquartered in Ireland, Codec is a high-growth, leading technology company with offices in Dublin, London, Belfast, and Malta. With a team of over 300 dedicated professionals, they are committed to delivering innovative solutions based on the Microsoft low-code platform. As a four-time recipient of the Microsoft Country Partner of the Year award, Codec specialises in providing business applications, artificial intelligence, and cloud infrastructure on the low-code Microsoft platform to organisations in the Public and Healthcare sectors. Beyond technology Codec actively supports sustainability and our chosen charities, Ruhama and Flourish.

Evolve IP Adds Amillan As Reselling Partner Base Continues To Expand

Evolve IP, a leading service provider of Unified Communications, has announced that agile technology specialist Amillan, has joined its growing reselling partner base.

Amillan prides itself in delivering IT solutions to help boost business performance whilst specialising in industry specific solutions, especially the public sector. Services encompass the latest innovations in Unified Communications and telephony, together with advanced Contact Centre platforms and cutting-edge LAN and Wireless solutions.

Jamie Hughes, UK Sales Director at Evolve IP, commented:  “We’re really looking forward to working with Amillan, as the work they have done across a range of sectors is perfect for the services and solutions that we provide and specialise in as a collaborations provider. Our technical experts are excited for the challenges and work that comes with creating unique solutions that fit individual industries. Amillan is the ideal partner to enable us to further stretch our skills whilst helping to grow their business.”

Enterprise-grade

Amillan will be reselling a range of the Evolve IP enterprise-grade solutions that are available to all reselling partners. These comprise:

 

  • Anywhere Contact Centre – Delivers service excellence and supports teams in the hybrid world. Scales from 5 to 1000 plus agents, always allowing on-demand agent ‘bursting’. With Anywhere Contact Centre, new contact centres can be online within hours and new agents in just minutes.

 

  • Evolve Anywhere with Microsoft Teams – Natively integrated between the Microsoft Teams and Evolve IP’s carrier-grade voice solution. Users can work within a system they are familiar with (MS Teams) but integrate with sophisticated technologies that will allow them to scale up and improve their communications strategy effectively. 

 

  • Evolve Anywhere with Cisco Webex – Developed to help customers successfully manage the unique business requirements of today’s ‘new normal’. A decade-long partnership with Cisco for hosting Cisco telephony solutions enables Evolve IP to provide ‘unparalleled service, support and the latest features’.

 

  • Anywhere Value Add Solutions – Evolve IP’s Anywhere Product Suite offers partners an eco-system of technology partners from call recording with Voice AI to business analytics, integrations and receptionist console. All within a user-friendly management portal. 

Patrick Daly, Managing Director at Amillan outlined why the company is delighted to be working with Evolve IP. 

“Choosing Evolve IP as our latest service provider offers us the complete flexibility we need. Supporting a range of industries comes with specific requests and needs. We can see that Evolve IP can help us with supporting them and their communications strategy.”

Evolve IP is an award-winning service provider, recently recognised for its work within the verticals sector. The company is continuing its growth throughout the EMEA region offering partners the opportunity to access two of the industry-leading voice solutions, Webex & Microsoft Teams. These voice solutions are rigorously tested and integrated with technologies that support any business’s communication needs. To find out more about Evolve IP’s solutions, visit https://www.evolveip.net/en-gb/ 

Simplified Partner Service Offers Resellers A New Window Into The World Of Evolve IP

Global collaboration provider, Evolve IP, has launched a new ‘window into its world’ of integrated cloud-based communications, to make life simpler for its reselling partners. The creation of a single ‘Anywhere Portal’ is designed to provide a streamlined and more efficient route into Evolve IP’s service stack for provisioning and administration.

Evolve IP works with many of the world’s biggest tech companies and innovative industry leaders to create robust and reliable solutions for a growing reselling partner base. It specialises in securely integrating unified communications, collaboration tools, contact centre, voice, and omnichannel solutions into the cloud.

The Anywhere Portal aims to deliver enhanced levels of service and support. It is based on a new user interface which is fast and clean as well as mobile and desktop compatible.

Powerful step forward

Senior Solutions Consultant, Adrian Penny, says the new portal provides resellers with the ability to provision, manage and support their customers all from a single convenient resource.

“Anywhere Portal is a single space that houses all the solutions our customers have with Evolve IP. We want to make it as easy as possible for them to manage their customers and services. The Anywhere Portal gives them the ability to build and configure all Cisco BroadWorks services via our core telephony platform, allowing them to add customers to detailed configurations easily.”

Benefits include full Webex integration, customer password resets, multi-factor authentication, and bulk upload capabilities. In addition, comprehensive reporting and business analytics is combined with one click functionality to build multiple devices, meaning no more custom credentials.

Penny concluded: “Our previous provisioning portal was much more limited. We’ve added lots more features and functionality based on a sophisticated engine which can automate a lot of the core processes which were previously manual. It reflects our three core pillars of efficiency, automation and simplicity.

“Evolve IP is designed to advance today’s hybrid workplace and the Anywhere Portal represents another powerful step forward to help partners deliver faster, easier and quicker responses to their customers. It’s a win-win for all parties.”

Internal workshops are taking place throughout May to boost knowledge and ensure users become more familiar with the new portal.

Game changer

The launch of Anywhere Portal is being hailed as a ‘game changer’ by Nikki Hough, UC Deployment Manager at leading solutions provider, Babble.

“We can build and deploy a significant number of users easily and efficiently. This complements the industry-leading solutions that Evolve IP can provide the team and makes the Evolve IP offer more complete and compelling,” 

 He added: “Anywhere Portal also provides us with an extra level of security with two-factor authentication; which is of course a priority for any business’s service that they provide. This solution was the missing piece in Evolve IP’s offering and so it’s great to see it in place. We’re excited to explore what we can achieve with the Anywhere Portal in the future.”  

To find out more about Anywhere Portal, visit https://www.evolveip.net/en-gb/solutions/anywhere-portal