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technologyreseller.co.uk PEOPLE continued... Lakeside Software appoints EMEA leader Digital experience (DEX) monitoring company Lakeside Software has appointed Oli Giordimaina to lead its EMEA product strategy at a time of growing pressure on IT to deliver more with fewer resources and resolve issues more rapidly. Based in Cheshire, Giordimaina began his career supporting critical systems for organisations such as British Aerospace before moving into product roles at AppSense and Ivanti.

01732 759725 16 CLOUD WORKSPACES really built around the idea that bad actors are going to get in so let's monitor, detect, mitigate and remediate. That's today's model – when something happens, this is how we react to it,” explains Oestermann. “We think there's a different way of doing this, which is why we call it the Preventative Security Model. We basically prevent a breach from happening in the first place.

www.managedITmag.co.uk 29 OPINION Petra Goude non-existent. That’s a problem when the time comes to modernise IT systems to enable new functions and work with cloudenabled platforms. n Identifying dependencies. Sorting out the tangled control structure of COBOL systems can pose serious challenges and cause costly delays.

16 01732 759725 OPINION By Petra Goude, Kyndryl Global Practice Leader for Core Enterprise & zCloud programming languages. A new generation of COBOL experts can use Generative AI to translate COBOL code into languages like Java or C++. In the right hands, GenAI can help organisations to automate the translation process – bringing more consistency and reliability to this otherwise lengthy, complex and labourintensive endeavour. n Generating technical documentation.

1 39 Table of Contents 41 44 01732 759725 40 60 SECONDS... What were your business highlights of 2022? Winning so many Channel Awards just one year after launching in the UK in January 2021. What is currently having the greatest impact on your business? Our culture! It continually amazes me what great people can achieve with limited resources. What do you see as the key trends set to shape the market in 2023?

1 3 Table of Contents 5 44 To mark the launch of its new electric bike brand Peddle, technology distributor Exertis has pledged to donate £10 to Mental Health UK for every bike sold between now and next summer. The range includes four models – the Peddle Go, Peddle Step, Peddle Ride and Peddle Pro – each of which comes with more than £500 of pre-loaded features, plus £150 of accessories.

01732 759725 36 VIEW FROM THE CHANNEL For much of 2021, Central has been marking its first 30 years in business with a series of activities and events, from a complete rebrand and the launch of a new company website to fund-raising for local charity Springhill Hospice and the donation of 30 bags of shopping to pantries operated by Rochdale Boroughwide Housing. Here, co-owner Jo Berry gives her view from the channel. www.centralnetworks.co.uk TR: How’s business? Better or worse than 12 months ago?