Month: August 2017

Backup

Rubrik looks to get innovative with new Service Delivery Partner Program

August 24, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik looks to get innovative with new Service Delivery Partner Program
It includes a variety of different engagement models, depending on the way the partner’s business is structured, and makes some adjustments to costing as traditionally done in MSP programs.

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Storage

New encryption, improved flash support highlight Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform 3.0

August 24, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New encryption, improved flash support highlight Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform 3.0
The new Hedvig software also adds new plug-ins for Veritas and Red Hat, and enhances an existing one for VMware.

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Channel Programs

Syncplicity by Axway signs on with Ingram Micro to strengthen channel initiatives

August 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Syncplicity by Axway signs on with Ingram Micro to strengthen channel initiatives
Syncplicity, which was acquired by Axway in February, has also strengthened its channel momentum with new funding and leverage of Axway assets.

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Networking

EXCLUSIVE: Canada rises as Extreme Networks priority as part of new strategic initiative

August 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on EXCLUSIVE: Canada rises as Extreme Networks priority as part of new strategic initiative
While Extreme has always had a significant enterprise business to go along with their mid-market presence, their flurry of recent acquisitions, complemented by internal changes to optimize them, has created a much stronger enterprise focus.

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Managed Services

Webroot expands NinjaRMM relationship around DNS protection

August 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Webroot expands NinjaRMM relationship around DNS protection
NinjaRMM becomes an early adopter of the new Webroot solution, which has an integrated console with its Business Endpoint Protection offering.

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Software

Cirrus Data Solutions strikes first integrated deal with INFINIDAT strategic alliance

August 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cirrus Data Solutions strikes first integrated deal with INFINIDAT strategic alliance
The deal sees the Cirrus Data Migration Server become the data migration element in INFINIDAT’s InfiniBox hardware, which is aimed at the higher end of the market.

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Channel Programs

Dell EMC signs on as VMware distributor, with initial access to top two partner tiers

August 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC signs on as VMware distributor, with initial access to top two partner tiers
Out of the gate, Titanium Black and Titanium will be able to buy the VMware offerings for their solutions straight from Dell EMC, which will allow them to get full credit under VMware’s partner program for their purchases.

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Security

One Identity unveils their first risk analysis solution

August 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on One Identity unveils their first risk analysis solution
One Identity Starling Identity Analytics & Risk Intelligence is SaaS based and designed for simplicity, so that the solution can be deployed much more broadly than risk analysis solutions have been in the past.

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Storage

ioFABRIC adds cost optimization capability to pooled automatic data fabric solution

August 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on ioFABRIC adds cost optimization capability to pooled automatic data fabric solution
Toronto startup ioFABRIC has refined its messaging to focus on customer concerns about clouds and hybrid clouds, and backed that up by extending their solution’s capability with Vicinity 3.0.

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Backup

Zerto upgrades Azure, AWS cloud support in Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5

August 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zerto upgrades Azure, AWS cloud support in Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5
The Azure component is especially significant, as Zerto becomes the first vendor to support replication from the Azure cloud, as well as into it.

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Storage

Tegile goes all-NVMe route with new N-Series

August 21, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tegile goes all-NVMe route with new N-Series
Tegile becomes the second vendor to announce an all-flash version around the generation of NVMe drives that is about to ship, with massive performance and latency improvements over existing product.

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Channel Programs

Midrange storage the focus as Dell EMC unveils new channel investments

August 17, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Midrange storage the focus as Dell EMC unveils new channel investments
In addition to the many storage announcements, Dell EMC also addressed the issues with the Partner Academy, and will be waiving training requirements for the second half of the year.

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Data Centre

Cloudistics signs first distribution deal, with Ingram Micro

August 17, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudistics signs first distribution deal, with Ingram Micro
Cloudistics sees Ingram Micro’s EVI program for startups as a great boon to let them expand their channel in the U.S. and Canada.

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Cloud

Document management vendor FileHold strengthens search capability by embedding dtSearch engine

August 17, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Document management vendor FileHold strengthens search capability by embedding dtSearch engine
FileHold’s FastFind, Powered by dtSearch, now lets customers search for documents even when they are in a third-party application.

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Managed Services

Intermedia bolsters Email Protection solution with six new anti-phishing features

August 17, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intermedia bolsters Email Protection solution with six new anti-phishing features
This significantly upgrades the anti-phishing protection available for users of the Intermedia solution for Exchange, and while the features themselves are free, they give partners an opportunity to have a phishing discussion with customers.

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Managed Services

New NinjaRMM CRO Francois Daumard sets course on aggressive growth strategy

August 16, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New NinjaRMM CRO Francois Daumard sets course on aggressive growth strategy
Daumard talks with ChannelBuzz about why he thinks NinjaRMM is well positioned to do well in a crowded marketplace – and just how he intends to do that.

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Backup

Unitrends announces full Nutanix AHV hypervisor integration

August 16, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Unitrends announces full Nutanix AHV hypervisor integration
From a channel perspective, this will give joint partners more flexibility in meeting customer budgets, and should result in some Unitrends partners not working with Nutanix to begin doing so.

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Storage

Tintri adds AWS and IBM cloud support, and compute analytics

August 16, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tintri adds AWS and IBM cloud support, and compute analytics
The new enhancements make multiple software-based upgrades to the Tintri platform.

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Security

New Verodin CRO Robert Potter looks to channel to drive massive growth

August 15, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Verodin CRO Robert Potter looks to channel to drive massive growth
Brought in to drive that growth as Verodin moves past proof-of-concept stage, Potter talks about his strategy for doing this with ChannelBuzz.

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Backup

Barracuda Backup now enabled for replication to AWS cloud

August 15, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda Backup now enabled for replication to AWS cloud
Barracuda Backup joins their firewall solutions in being authorized and enabled for the AWS cloud, with the Azure cloud next on the priority list.

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