Cohesity Primary sponsor
A single, secure platform to protect 1,000+ workloads, accelerate recovery, and unlock insights from your data across cloud, on-prem, and SaaS.
Cohesity serves over 13,000 global customers, including 70% of the Global 500. Major global enterprises across education, banking, and healthcare, rely on its services for data protection.
Canon Platinum sponsor
Significant investment in Research and Development and continuous innovation has kept it at the forefront of imaging excellence throughout its near 90-year history. This has enabled the company to develop industry-leading technology, supporting future demands of office workers, professional printers, photographers, videographers, medical imaging experts and more.
Cirrus Platinum sponsor
CirrusHQ is a UK-based AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, helping public sector organisations design, build, and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure. Trusted across government, healthcare, and education, we support cloud strategy, migration, DevOps, and cost optimisation. This delivers resilient, compliant, secure digital services, alongside high-performance infrastructure foundations for scaling AI and data workloads.
HPE Platinum sponsor
Enable exceptional experiences with secure, simplified access everywhere. Deliver protection without compromise from edge to cloud with HPE’s unified, AI-native secure networking architecture. Unified SASE and a hybrid mesh firewall enforce consistent zero trust security for any user, device or resource-authenticating, securing, and optimising every connection.
Proact IT Platinum sponsor
For more than 30 years, we have partnered with UK universities to protect, secure, and manage critical data and infrastructure. From strengthening cyber resilience and recovery planning to enabling secure, governance-compliant AI initiatives, we help universities maximise the value of their data while keeping it protected, accessible, and trusted.
4C Strategies
4C is an independent IT Infrastructure consultancy – covering strategy, business case, procurement, implementation and benefits realisation. Our expertise in Higher Education includes: Cyber Security, Zero Trust Networking, Green IT, Unified Communications, Microsoft Teams adoption, Smart Campus, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Customer Experience and Recruitment & Resourcing
Acumen Cyber
Acumen Cyber delivers SecurEd, a shared managed SOC service developed with HEFESTIS for higher and further education. Combining 24/7 protection, direct access to UK-based security engineers and fixed, predictable pricing, we continuously validate defences against real-world attack techniques, proving what works, identifying gaps and evolving protection for universities and colleges.
Apporto
Box
Box (NYSE: BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management, enabling organisations to collaborate, manage content, secure critical data, and transform workflows with enterprise AI. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Box serves leading global organisations including JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Visit box.com to learn more.
Block Solutions
Block helps universities build secure, resilient digital foundations that improve student experience, research and operations. As a trusted technology partner, we bring deep expertise across networking, security, and services, working alongside digital teams to modernise environments, reduce complexity and create lasting institutional value at scale.
CDW
A leading supplier to the UK Higher Education sector partnering with Universities to provide technology transformation across Security, Digital Workspaces, Network, Data Centre & Cloud solutions. Our team of industry experts work with leading Universities to deliver long-term value alongside tactical supply chain solutions through our enviable framework position.
Everpure (PureStorage)
Everpure allows organisations to take control of their data with an industry-leading, ever-evolving storage and data management platform. We help companies unleash the power of their data by ensuring it is secure, accessible, intelligent, and ready to perform in the AI era. Everpure makes data management effortless.
Freshworks
Freshworks Inc. makes it easy for companies to delight their customers and their employees. Our AI-powered customer and employee-service solutions increase efficiency and improve engagement for companies of all sizes. The result is happier customers and more productive employees. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Freshworks operates around the world to serve more than 67,000 customers.
Glide
Glide is a specialist managed connectivity provider with over 35 years’ experience in the student market, serving more than 40 UK universities. We deliver internet, Wi-Fi, network and security services across living, learning and working environments – combining high-performance connectivity, expert service management and user support.
Nutanix
Nutanix, a leader in infrastructure software, offers a platform to run applications and manage data across on-premises, public clouds, and edge locations. Our software-defined architecture combines compute, storage, virtualisation, and networking, and runs on a variety of hardware and clouds. Simple to manage and scale reducing total cost of ownership.
Planon
Planon is the leading global provider of Facility and Real Estate Management software. Around 3,750 organisations are already using our IoT-enabled solutions to effectively manage their buildings, infrastructure and facilities; saving costs, meeting governance and sustainability goals and creating attractive and engaging workplaces.
Real
Real is a workforce consultancy with expertise in higher and further education. Real advises businesses, builds expert teams, and delivers project solutions.
Switchshop
Switchshop is a UK specialist in networking, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure solutions, supporting colleges, universities, and public sector organisations for over 20 years. Working with leading technology partners including Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking and Acronis, we take a consultative, technically led approach to help institutions create secure, resilient, and future-ready digital environments.
TouchNet
TouchNet unifies campuswide payments and campus ID software solutions for institutions of higher education around the world. Colleges and universities rely on TouchNet to integrate and secure payments, permissions, and other related business transactions for a comprehensive, actionable view campuswide.
Veeam
Veeam, the Data and AI Trust Company, helps organizations secure, understand, and recover their data and AI at scale. As the leader in data resilience and security posture management, Veeam protects against ransomware, disasters, and AI errors. Headquartered in Seattle, Veeam serves 550,000+ customers, including 82% of the Fortune 500.
