DataSolutions Announces Strategic Partnership with Runecast to Improve Business Risk Mitigation
DataSolutions, a Climb Company, distributor of innovative IT services and solutions in the U.K. and Ireland, is thrilled to announce its newest partnership with Runecast, a leading provider of proactive automation solutions for Continuous Compliance, Vulnerability Management, and IT operations management across critical IT infrastructure. This collaboration underscores DataSolutions' commitment to offering comprehensive business risk mitigation solutions to its channel partners, particularly in the realms of compliance and vulnerability management.
Founded in 2014, Runecast has evolved from a tool focused on IT operations management for VMware to a comprehensive CNAPP solution catering to a range of technologies. Runecast's expertise now extends to managing business risk for critical infrastructure across various environments, including virtualised on-premises settings, Windows/Linux, public clouds like Azure and AWS, and containerised workflows – to keep workloads secure, compliant, and highly available anywhere.
Business Risk Mitigation
A core element of this partnership is Runecast's unique approach to business risk mitigation. Using Runecast AI Knowledge Automation (RAIKA), the Runecast platform bridges the gap between a customer's infrastructure and external knowledge sources, hardening environments by continually checking against compliance standards including ISO27001, Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and Cyber Essentials, vulnerability databases such as the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs) catalogue, knowledge base articles, and vendor-defined best practices, translating them into actionable insights for organisations to maintain continuous compliance, uptime, and address vulnerabilities effectively and efficiently.
This enables IT teams to proactively mitigate business risk and challenges. Runecast automatically highlights where problems are, prioritises them according to criticality, and outlines how to fix them. For an average organisation, this typically translates into a 75-90 percent reduction in time spent troubleshooting, upgrade planning, and preparing for audits, with an 80 percent reduction in monthly occurring incidents and issues.
Opportunities for Channel Partners
The partnership between DataSolutions and Runecast opens up several opportunities for channel partners in the U.K. and Ireland. An area that will be of particular interest to Irish channel partners working with customers in the financial services sector is Runecast’s capabilities in meeting DORA compliance.
Additionally, partners working with organisations in government and defence should take note of Runecast’s effectiveness in air-gapped environments. Runecast's ability to deploy in completely air-gapped settings (with offline updates) ensures that such critical environments remain protected, compliant, and resilient against misconfigurations and external threats.
Additionally, Runecast's approach to continuous compliance and operational resilience can position channel partners to drive their own value-added managed services. A key way that organisations currently use Runecast is to deliver health checks that determine their customers’ compliance and vulnerability posture. These health checks can be the foundation for partners to then wrap their own fully managed risk and compliance services around Runecast.
Paul Donnachie, Sales Director UK&I, Runecast:
"We are excited to partner with DataSolutions, whose strong market presence, impressive growth, and deep-rooted relationships in the channel make them an ideal partner. This collaboration allows us to leverage DataSolutions' expertise in critical infrastructure and cloud solutions, amplifying our reach and impact to help protect organisations in the UK and Ireland."
Brian Davis, VP Sales UK&I, DataSolutions, A Climb Company:
"This partnership with Runecast aligns perfectly with our mission to broaden our vendor portfolio, bringing innovative and essential solutions to our partners. We recognise the growing significance of compliance, vulnerability, and IT operational management in today's business landscape. Runecast's proactive approach to these challenges presents our partners with a unique opportunity to expand their service offerings and address the evolving needs of their clients – especially for those operating in regulated or critical industries."
DataSolutions' partnership with Runecast signifies a strategic move towards empowering businesses with robust solutions for managing IT operations, compliance, and vulnerabilities.
For channel partners in the UK and Ireland, this partnership offers a pathway to new growth opportunities, ensuring their clients' infrastructures are protected, compliant, and capable of withstanding the challenges of complex and evolving IT infrastructures.
For partners who wish to find out more about Runecast, you can do so by visiting our dedicated landing page, contacting Brian Davis via LinkedIn or submitting this form and someone will be in touch with you ASAP.
About Runecast
Runecast Solutions Ltd. is a global leader in AI-powered risk mitigation, security, continuous compliance and more efficient IT operations management. Our cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), Runecast, spans on-premises VMware to operating systems, cloud and containers. Trusted by forward-thinking enterprises like Avast, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Merck/MSD, we provide proactive vulnerability and configuration drift management, security and compliance assessment, operational efficiency and mission-critical stability. Headquartered in London, U.K., Runecast is recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor, recommended by CISA, and has earned Frost & Sullivan’s 2023 European New Product Innovation Award in the CNAPP industry, as well as Computing magazine awards for Enterprise Threat Detection, Cloud Security Product of the Year, and Best Place to Work in Digital. Learn more at https://www.runecast.com.
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