It was beers all round at Datasharp when it scooped a deal to overhaul St. Austell Brewery's comms infrastructure.

The brewery is one of the largest employers in the south west and its plans for growth, which include a relocation, could only be realised following an upgrade of its comms systems by existing supplier Datasharp.

Congrats to 'Team ProVu' for completing the Gauntlet Games staged in Manchester, overcoming obstacles such as monkey bars suspended over ice cold water, space hopper races and foam-filled slides.

Giacom's 4,000-plus IT reseller network can more easily sell and license cloud services following the launch of the firm's Cloud Market, which replaces the MessageStream brand.

In designing the platform Giacom prioritised the key requirements of resellers, such as easing the customer journey, simplicity in its usage and availability on any device.

ITSPA has expressed dismay over Ofcom's stance on resolving switching problems among fixed line communication providers, particularly issues around number portability - the right of anyone who has been assigned a telephone number from the Numbering Plan to retain that number when they switch to a different landline or mobile provider.

Twenty five years after launching its three-legged conference phone Polycom has lifted the curtain on three new additions to its portfolio - the Polycom Trio 8500 for mid-sized conference rooms, an upgraded version of the Polycom Trio 8800 for larger conference rooms, and the Polycom VoxBox, a portable speakerphone for team and personal spaces.

Investment in non-cloud data centre infrastructure has plummeted by almost a fifth in 24 months, according to analyst Synergy Research Group, signalling opportunities for managed service providers delivering their services through public clouds.

A pan-EMEA agreement between Nuvias and GitHub signals the distributor's intent to drive its DevOps business. The deal also underscores GitHub's ambition to expand its enterprise customer base across the region.

BT Wholesale has signed an exclusive partnership with Jabra to offer headset and speakerphone bundles to resellers.

Research house IT Europa and Angel Business Communications have confirmed that they will jointly stage the second annual European Managed Services & Hosting Summit on 29th May 2018.

NG Bailey's IT Services division has appointed Ministry of Defence veteran Tim Briggs-Mould as Defence Operations Director to oversee the firm's existing defence contracts.