Solar's in-house tech team has developed a Skype for Business solution that offers the call quality of enterprise grade telephony services.

Skype for Business has seen a significant uptake from within the business community but it can be limited in its enterprise grade telephony offering, according to CEO John Whitty.

Openreach has kicked off a rebranding exercise that, says the firm, illustrates a new era of greater independence from the wider Group.

Microsoft has taken the wraps off its new partner strategy at this week's Microsoft Inspire event in the US.

Having confirmed last week a sales and marketing staff cull at the company, Microsoft has announced the One Commercial Partner strategy, ostensibly designed to help partners make more sales through the cloud and digital transformation markets.

Gradwell Communications CEO Simon Mewett and Chief Product & Marketing Officer Julien St John-Dennis have left the business following an MBO and a change of institutional investor.

The move sees the appointment of Nick Caw as CEO and Andrew Peters who becomes COO, both bringing strong experience in the IT and telecoms market.

Splicecom has unveiled its new voice platform to reseller partners at a series of regional roadshows.

SelectVoice is a single platform voice solution developed from the ground up that can be deployed in the cloud, on-premise or any blend of the two, and is available through capital purchase or pay monthly terms - or a blend of the two.

GCI has become one of only four service providers in the UK to be awarded Gold partner status at Enghouse Interactive's partner event in London on 5th July.

GCI's elevation to Gold status is recognition of its ability to consult, design, deploy and support complex Contact Centre deployments at scale.
 

BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions UK has appointed Mike Quinn (pictured) as the new Head of Technology Solutions (TS), taking over from Russ Pettifer.

Rugby League side Salford Red Devils has hauled itself back from the brink of relegation to enjoy one of its best ever Super League seasons; and according to Player Welfare Manager Garreth Carvell (pictured) the team's mental toughness was supported by two-way radio equipment from Storno that provided a communication link b

Exclusive Group has acquired Silicon Valley-based cyber security VAD Fine Tec,va $230m valuevadded distributor in network security, data integrity and storage solutions.

The move increases Exclusive Group's influence in global cyber security market.    

Having stepped up its SAP-based management system to handle managed services distributor CMS has added Barracuda Networks to its line up.