The London-based outfit serves about 1,000 resellers and account-managesabout 100 of those, including Trustmarque, Caretower and Sapphire.

The reseller recently surveyed 100 mid-market firms based in London and found34 had no disaster recovery (DR) plan. A further 52 per cent had a remote accessoffering that lacked the scale to allow staff to work at full capacity away

The market watcher expects Q2 2009 to mark the peak of annual server declinesin the region in both revenue and unit terms. Revenues for the three months toJune are set to plummet 39 per cent year on year to $2.9bn,

QLogic's 8GB influx is a step on the road to the regeneration of the fibrechannel market. It has also contributed to a wave of technology advances,alongside 10GB iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and quad data rate(QDR) InfiniBand.

Bristol-based Portrayal has beenappointed a Xerox Office Business Partner (XOBP), while Aspen Solutions in Cumbernauld,Scotland has become an official Xerox concessionaire, in which the resellermakes a commitment to only sell Xerox kit.

The Birmingham-based VAD is offering resellers next-day delivery of BigBlue's System x rack-mount and tower servers on orders of up to three units. ISIclaims this is a reduction of one full day on standard delivery times and willallow VARs to

TallyGenicom, then owned by Printronix, entered administration late lastyear.

BT's 21CNproject , the UK's most high-profile NGN, has encountered numerous setbacks,but the carrier has reiterated its commitment to the project. It also claimedchannel partners continued to benefit from the network's rollout.

As a result of the partnership, Cohort will help the vendor boost itsEuropean footprint by recruiting channel partners to attract new SME customers.

After unveiling its new SAN storage system, Enterprise Scalable VirtualisedArchitecture (ESVA), at HeathrowT5 , the vendor is targeting the high end of the mid-market where it expectsto run into the likes of IBM , EMC and HP .

The firm, which has been hit by severalcredit insurance reviews this year, revealed in its financial year-endstatement that it had identified a further £200m in cost savings over the nextfour years.

Former NASA Apollo astronaut approves new Science Museum Force Field experience.

Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry wins award for stunning costumed characters.

Europe's biggest historical event, the English Heritage Festival of History, will be taking place on July 25 and 26 2009 at Kelmarsh Hall in Northamptonshire.

A study at Scone Palace near Perth is shedding new light on one of Britain's most elusive and enigmatic wild birds, the Hawfinch.

Leading independent charity The Art Fund has launched a new Art Saved section on its website offering art lovers new ways to discover more about great works of art saved for the nation over the last century.

Two sisters try to forge a career in crime scene clean-up.

After eating from the tree of knowledge, a Stone Age man gets big ideas and embarks upon a journey of exploration.

A coming of age drama about two young brothers whose mother dies suddenly, leaving them to fend for themselves.

Comic portrait of a family in meltdown.