Year: 2017

Sir Robert Swan (left) and Commvault CMO Chris Powell "seal the deal" at Commvault Go.
Marketing

Editor’s Notebook: Want to make a marketing splash? Send your CMO to the South Pole

November 7, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Editor’s Notebook: Want to make a marketing splash? Send your CMO to the South Pole
Commvault makes an impact at its Go conference by announcing its marketing chief will join an expedition walking to the South Pole.

Sponsored Content

Businesses and GDPR: What they need to do to be compliant?

November 7, 2017 Guest Poster Comments Off on Businesses and GDPR: What they need to do to be compliant?
Europe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have major impact on a lot of companies. ESET addresses what your customers need to know to be ready.

Storage

Dell EMC upgrades both SC and Unity midrange storage

November 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC upgrades both SC and Unity midrange storage
Dell EMC has made strengthening its position in midrange storage a priority, and in addition to the new product upgrades has also introduced a customer satisfaction guarantee.

Backup

Cohesity looks for select partner channel to do more

November 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity looks for select partner channel to do more
Cohesity has their first-ever partner council coming next week,, part of the process of building out their channel, and generating more value from it.

Backup

Barracuda MSP launches Intronis Backup integration for ConnectWise Automate

November 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda MSP launches Intronis Backup integration for ConnectWise Automate
Barracuda MSP builds on earlier integrations with LabTech/Automate with new automated deployment capabilities, as well as improvements to manageability.

Wendy Bahr, senior vice president of Cisco's Global Partner Organization
Channel Programs

Simpler is better: Cisco pares programs

November 7, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Simpler is better: Cisco pares programs
Cisco announces a reduction in the complexity of its partner programs, while pivoting profitability towards software and recurring revenues.

Cloud

Salesforce, Google extend partnership with multi-faceted collaboration

November 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Salesforce, Google extend partnership with multi-faceted collaboration
Salesforce and Google have announced a major extension to their existing partnership, which will see much deeper integrations. It will not, however, place Google in a preferred position above AWS as a public cloud provider.
Cloud

What’s new at Dreamforce 2017? Upgrading existing services

November 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on What’s new at Dreamforce 2017? Upgrading existing services
Salesforce’s general managers discuss the innovations in their areas being announced at this year’s Dreamforce, and emphasize how they follow a common theme of allowing greater accessibility and customization capability.

Backup

Ex-NetApp President Rob Salmon looks to extend Cohesity’s early-stage growth

November 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ex-NetApp President Rob Salmon looks to extend Cohesity’s early-stage growth
Rob Salmon, who recently came out of retirement to assume a very senior role with startup secondary storage vendor Cohesity, discusses what his role will be in continuing the company hot growth rate.

Managed Services

SOC-as-a-service vendor Arctic Wolf announces PSA integration with ConnectWise Manage

November 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on SOC-as-a-service vendor Arctic Wolf announces PSA integration with ConnectWise Manage
Arctic Wolf has broadened out its channel strategy to place a new emphasis on MSPs, and sees the ConnectWise integration as a key step in executing that.