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Workspace management software vendor RES Software has appointed Klaus Besier as its new chief executive.

In the role, Besier will be responsible for overseeing the vendor’s global expansion plans. His predecessor, Hans Middelburg, left the company in January to head up IT consultancy Madcap.

Besier has chaired the vendor’s board of directors since October 2009 and said he was “pleased” to be formalising his connection with the firm.

“With more than 2,500 global customers, and more than 1 million licences sold worldwide, RES has built an impressive track record and foundation for growth,” Besier said. “There is a tremendous opportunity and demand for the firm’s solutions and the company expects to see significant expansion across all global markets.”

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RES Software has launched a reseller recruitment campaign to support the rollout of the latest version of its workspace management tool, PowerFuse 2010.

The product, explained the vendor, has been designed to make it easier for organisations to deploy new desktop platforms, such as Windows 7 and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions.

Ronnie Khan, UK country manager at RES Software, said the firm wants to sign up 20-30 more resellers over the course of this year to build on the sales momentum created by the product’s previous version.

He added: “RES currently has that number [of resellers] in the UK, but some are just Authorised level so we want to have 20-30 focussed partners that we can truly work in partnership with.”

Khan said the firm would be relying on its distribution partners, which include CDG UK and AppSpeed, to achieve its reseller recruitment target.

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Winchester City Council has deployed Enterprise SSO from Evidian, a supplier of identity and access management, to simplify access for staff to multiple applications while increasing security. The solution was supplied through specialist distributor, AppSpeed.

The Evidian solution is being used together with two-factor authentication to secure systems and application access in compliance with GSi Code of Connection (CoCo), which the council achieved in February 2009, well ahead of the compliance deadline. Enterprise SSO eliminates the risks of staff having to remember multiple passwords to access key applications.

Council staff use the Evidian solution when signing into a range of back-office and citizen data applications. Enterprise SSO enforces security policies by clearly linking application access to user identities, and by enforcing the use of strong, complex passwords.

Winchester City Council Head of IM&T, Sheila Davidge, said: “We wanted to ensure we were compliant with CoCo ahead of the Government’s original deadline. Evidian’s SSO solution exceeds the CoCo requirements for password strength, and saves users’ time by negating the need to sign in to multiple applications. It also cuts the number of helpdesk calls from users for resets of forgotten passwords. It gives us a single, consistent security policy that’s easy to apply, with minimal support overhead.”

Nick Lamidey, sales director UK and Ireland for Evidian said: “SSO delivers security where it’s most often needed, for user identification and authentication when accessing key applications. This is becoming a key requirement for security compliance, especially in the public sector. Our solutions simplify access for both office-based and remote users, and make single sign on easy to deploy and manage. This delivers rapid ROI through reduced helpdesk support for replacing or resetting user passwords.”

Evidian’s Enterprise SSO solution increases enterprise security by enforcing application password policy. It automatically creates and changes application passwords, improving user productivity and regulatory compliance, and cutting helpdesk costs. Industry analysts estimate over 30% of helpdesk calls are for password resets.

Evidian’s solutions secure access to all types of corporate application – whether Windows, Citrix, Linux, Unix, web-based or mainframe. They combine multi-factor authentication with a plug-and-play SSO solution, replacing user passwords with digital signatures based on certificates, smart cards, USB keys or biometrics. Access is authorised according to existing security policies and enterprise directories. Enterprise SSO integrates with Windows Active Directory.

Evidian Enterprise SSO is available for Windows XP, 2000, 2003 and Vista workstations. For thin clients, it is also available in the Windows Terminal Server and Citrix (MetaFrame, Presentation Server and NFuse) environments

Storage and virtualisation distributor Appspeed has extended its deal with Lakeside Software by bagging exclusive rights to the vendor’s Systrack Power Management suite.

The software firm develops management offerings for the Windows marketplace. It specialises in green IT and focuses on virtualisation, power management and optimisation of virtual, physical and mixed environments.

The Basingstoke-based VAD is owned by channel veteran Grahame Smee, who serves as managing director of both Appspeed and security and IP telephony distributor Cohort. Smee claimed concerns about both the economy and the environment would help fuel take up of Lakeside Software’s technology.

“There are two huge drivers behind the adoption of this technology, one is economic and the overall drive to cut costs and the other is environmental with the accepted need to cut carbon emissions by
“By implementing the Systrack system of automated power management we can demonstrate a very fast return on investment and also reduce device

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Virtualisation and storage data recovery vendor Sanrad has partnered with distributor AppSpeed to accelerate its growth in the UK SAN and virtualised storage markets.

AppSpeed will offer Sanrad’s core products, the V-Stor and the V-Switch, which provide continuous data availability and protection with a combination of snapshots, mirroring and replication.
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Channel stalwart Grahame Smee has completed his acquisition of virtualisation and storage specialist AppSpeed, and has revealed ambitious plans for the firm.

Smee, who is now acting as managing director for both distributors, said the Appspeed staff were transferred into Cohort’s offices earlier this month.

According to Smee, the Appspeed name still exists with its own sales and services team, but the two companies share back office functions.

Going forward Cohort will continue to specialise in security, and AppSpeed in storage and virtualisation.
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