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Manufacturers and partners

The backbone of our work is the careful selection of the manufacturers whose products we work with. Here we introduce the most important strategic partners.

Sophos Ltd.

The British manufacturer, based in Abingdon, started in 1985 with what would today be considered simple antivirus technology, and invented the Virus Description Language on which virus detection files are still based.

Over the decades Sophos acquired specialised vendors, integrated their products into its own development and connected them with one another. That connecting principle led to the Security Heartbeat, which intelligently links the individual components.

Sophos products are flexible, affordable and versatile. We maintain the closest contact with the manufacturer and its local team — Sophos is our most important strategic partner. We are your Sophos partner from Innsbruck to all of Austria.

Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH

Proxmox is an Austrian company based in Vienna, founded in 2005. Proxmox Virtual Environment is an open-source virtualisation platform that brings KVM virtualisation and LXC containers together under a single web interface.

Alongside it sit Proxmox Backup Server for deduplicated, incremental backups and Proxmox Mail Gateway as an upstream mail filter.

Proxmox interests us for several reasons: no core-based licensing models that reinvent themselves every year, open source code, a predictable support subscription — and a manufacturer you can reach in the same time zone and the same language. That fits our standards for data sovereignty and regionality.

ConnectWise Inc.

The US company ConnectWise builds very powerful tools, among them ConnectWise Automate — an automation and monitoring solution of the highest order (formerly LabTech) — and ConnectWise ScreenConnect for remote support.

With ConnectWise, practically any form of monitoring can be implemented. A large community supplies scripts and ideas for every conceivable variant. Whether you want to monitor Windows, Linux or other network components, need network discovery, want to inventory software or trigger reactions to events: you operate all of it not through awkward shell access but comfortably from a single consistent interface.

Awingu (Parallels · Alludo)

Awingu was founded commercially in Belgium in 2014 and pursues the idea of secure access to remote desktops and applications. Since 2022 the company has belonged to Parallels, part of the Alludo group.

What makes it interesting is that Awingu was designed from the very beginning so that the end device plays a subordinate role — Windows, Mac, Android or Linux alike. With smartcard or two-factor authentication you reach your internal terminal servers over a secured connection. You do not need a VPN. All you need is an internet connection and a browser.

Citrix Systems Inc.

The US company, with roots going back to 1989, was working on remote desktop and application delivery long before today’s key players. With the acquisition of XenSource in 2007, server virtualisation was added.

Veeam Software

Veeam specialises in data backup and recovery, particularly for virtual environments. Founded in 2006, the company is today headquartered in the United States and has become one of the standard providers for backing up virtual systems.

Acronis AG

The Swiss company is an expert in data backup and recovery. Founded in 2002, Acronis today has numerous products for business and private customers alike.

Its backup and disk imaging software is easy to operate, reliable and inexpensive by comparison. The present product range grew out of a disk partitioning tool and now presents itself as a modern solution for disaster recovery and data protection.

ACSN Computerhandels GmbH

ACSN is an Austrian IT association of high competence. More than 180 trained and certified staff are available across Austria to implement present and future IT requirements together.

The group holds a large number of certifications and trading partnerships with leading IT manufacturers, including HP Enterprise, HP Inc., HPE Aruba, Lenovo, Microsoft and Cisco. For us, ACSN is the partner for servicing and procurement across a wide range of manufacturers.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HPE is a US IT company that came into being in 2014 through the separation from the Hewlett-Packard Company. With the ProLiant server line originally taken over from Compaq, HPE still holds leading market share.

Under the HPE Aruba brand the company sells routers, switches and wireless access points along with the software to manage them.

HP Inc.

Known from 1939 to 2015 as the Hewlett-Packard Company, HP Inc. represents the personal computing and printing divisions following the separation from HP Enterprise. HP Inc. remains the market leader in printing; its product range also includes desktop PCs, notebooks and tablets.

Lenovo

Lenovo Group Limited is a Chinese computer and smartphone manufacturer founded in 1984. In 2005 the company took over IBM’s PC division, and in 2014 Motorola Mobility and parts of IBM’s server division. Well-known products include ThinkPad in notebooks and ThinkSystem in servers.

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