Year: 2018

Cloud

Dell Boomi looks to future with similar strategies around IoT and Blockchain

November 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Boomi looks to future with similar strategies around IoT and Blockchain
Boomi partner Hathority discussed how they use Boomi in both IoT and Blockchain solutions, using the multiple components of the Boomi platform beyond its core integration capabilities.

Channel Programs

Dell Boomi seeks to spur more strategic partner solutions with enhanced Technology Partner Program

November 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Boomi seeks to spur more strategic partner solutions with enhanced Technology Partner Program
Boomi has revamped their program for ISVs, integrators and other developers, to encourage them to build more solutions on top of and connecting to Boomi, and to validate it on third party software. They also want partners to work with the whole Boomi stack, not just its original integration functionality.

Artificial Intelligence

HCI vendor Maxta deepens analytics capabilities with new MxIQ analytics-insight platform

November 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HCI vendor Maxta deepens analytics capabilities with new MxIQ analytics-insight platform
Maxta provided analytics previously, but it was limited to data on an individual cluster, MxIQ broadens this to add metrics from additional clusters and additional data, to provide a greater degree of visibility and insight.

Backup

Office 365 protection enhancements, new blockchain-based service highlight Acronis Data Cloud 7.8 update

November 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Office 365 protection enhancements, new blockchain-based service highlight Acronis Data Cloud 7.8 update
Acronis has also added improved their ransomware protection and added runbooks to their disaster recovery orchestration, democratizing the process so it can be done without professional services. Previously announced Azure and Google Cloud integrations are also part of this release.

Data Centre

VxRail, VxBlock get significant enhancements in Dell EMC VMware-related announcements

November 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on VxRail, VxBlock get significant enhancements in Dell EMC VMware-related announcements
A new VxRail integration with Dell EMC Smart Fabric Services provides VxRail with automated networking configuration, while VxBlock gets major awareness, automation and analytics upgrades to its software.

Security

Okta looks to extend VMware Workspace ONE business with two channel promos

November 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Okta looks to extend VMware Workspace ONE business with two channel promos
The promos for VMware Workspace ONE Advanced and VMware Workspace ONE Enterprise are specifically for joint Okta-VMware channel partners.

Servers

Supermicro releases new entry level UP servers with Intel Xeon E-2100 chips

November 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Supermicro releases new entry level UP servers with Intel Xeon E-2100 chips
Supermicro believes that the new Xeon chips will allow partners to do more with entry level servers than they have in the past.

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Distribution

Helepolis aims to help Canadian VARs with security siege

November 5, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Helepolis aims to help Canadian VARs with security siege
Burlington, Ont.-based Helepolis positions itself to bolster customers’ defenses without ‘rip-and-replace’ and is building its channel through Ingram Micro Canada.

Networking

DH2i looks to disrupt cloud VPN market with new DxOdyssey software-defined perimeter software

November 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on DH2i looks to disrupt cloud VPN market with new DxOdyssey software-defined perimeter software
DH2i has adapted the technology from their core Smart Availabiilty offering for container management to solving a problem experienced by their customers. They are demonstrating it this week at the PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle.

Security

LogRhythm adds more SOAR capabilities into their next-gen SIEM with 7.4 software release

November 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on LogRhythm adds more SOAR capabilities into their next-gen SIEM with 7.4 software release
LogRhythm’s ongoing integration of SOAR automatic and response technology into their SIEM has led to a SOAR adoption rate over 30 times what Gartner had projected would be the industry average for standalone SOAR products by 2018.