Exclusive Group's Cloud First strategy has a new man at the helm, Patrick van Arendonk, who brings almost 30 years experience and joins from Exclusive Networks Netherlands where he held positions including General Manager and Director of Business Development.

Excell Group has acquired IT and Apple support company MacSeven Consultants adding over £2m turnover to the bottom line.

MacSeven's main service offering is Apple Mac computer support. It also offers PC support and project work.

Exertis has extended its professional services portfolio with the addition of Exertis Monitor, a post sales service that provides a basic level of monitoring on any vendor's solutions across IT infrastructures.

Nimans and Unify have staged a joint ‘Cloud & Triple Play' workshop, a three hour event where attendees discovered how to identify, target and win more sales based on cloud as well as on-premise solutions.

Telecoms training company Train to Win.tv has introduced a new fully managed service - Support to Win.tv - which provides outsourced expertise to channel partners who don't want the headache or business overheads of supporting hosted telephony customers in house.

Spitfire has concluded a supplier agreement that sees the addition of TalkTalk Business Ethernet to its portfolio which includes Ethernet from BT Wholesale, Colt and Virgin Media Business.

Spitfire's portfolio of Ethernet services includes delivery via fibre, EFM and GEA.

Westcon-Comstor's global SAP platform is now live in 54 countries.

The company first deployed SAP in the United States in 2012 and two years later kicked off a global expansion project in New Zealand, concluding its global rollout by bringing its Africa businesses onto the platform earlier this month.

Glamorgan Telecom has completed a management buyout with support from Finance Wales which takes a 15% equity stake in the group.

Cisco is to acquire San Francisco-based AI company MindMeld which has developed an AI platform that enables customers to build intelligent and human-like conversational interfaces for any application or device.

Cisco believes that AI and machine learning will play an increasingly vital role across all parts of its business.

The European Commission has called for 'swift action' to drive forward its Digital Single Market initiative across the European Union.