Year: 2017

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.