Year: 2018

Security

Comodo CyberSecurity unveils upgraded DNS-based SaaS service with Comodo Dome Shield Platinum

November 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Comodo CyberSecurity unveils upgraded DNS-based SaaS service with Comodo Dome Shield Platinum
Comodo has offered a free version, Comodo Dome Shield, which will continue as Comodo Dome Shield Gold, but they expect that most of their customers will upgrade to the paid Platinum version because it has more functionality and no monthly limits on DNS requests.

Unified Communications

Jabra extends new Engage franchise to corded phones with Engage 50

November 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Jabra extends new Engage franchise to corded phones with Engage 50
Jabra’s first corded model in their next-gen Engage franchise is aimed at the more price-sensitive part of the market, but still contains some interesting technology innovations.

Networking

Extreme Networks revamps training curriculum, approach with new Extreme Dojo program

November 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Extreme Networks revamps training curriculum, approach with new Extreme Dojo program
The four-level modular online program updates the curriculum to include all Extreme’s newly acquired assets. Sales training is available immediately, with technical training to follow in two months.

Computers

Dell unveils redesigned portfolio of Rugged Latitude laptops

November 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell unveils redesigned portfolio of Rugged Latitude laptops
Rugged laptops are a tiny part of Dell’s portfolio. They are looking to expand that, bringing more functionality from their other PC lines into their ruggeds to give them more feature differentiation in the rugged space.

Security

New Proofpoint sales head Blake Sallé stresses commitment to channel

November 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Proofpoint sales head Blake Sallé stresses commitment to channel
Proofpoint has elevated Americas Theater VP Blake Sallé to its worldwide sales lead. He stressed that while he sees no big issues with the company’s go-to-market strategy, improving channel productivity is one of his top priorities.

Cloud

ZeroStack extends templated services portfolio with Inter-Cloud VPN-as-a-service

November 1, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on ZeroStack extends templated services portfolio with Inter-Cloud VPN-as-a-service
The new VPN offering comes shortly after ZeroStack launched services around GPUs, Big Data, and DevOps, in order to provide partners with services offerings with additional revenue potential.

Cloud

Nutanix announces Beam SaaS service integration into Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

November 1, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix announces Beam SaaS service integration into Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
The Beam service that Nutanix announced at their spring customer event was designed for the public cloud. The integration into the Nutanix private cloud, available by the end of the calendar year will allow customers to determine whether the private cloud or a specific public cloud makes the most sense for a given workload.

Backup

Druva expands AWS partnership with availability of Druva on AWS Snowball Edge

November 1, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Druva expands AWS partnership with availability of Druva on AWS Snowball Edge
A new collaboration between Druva and AWS combines data protection and cloud migration abilities in these devices, which back up and restore directly to them, and allow easy petabyte-scale workload transfer to the cloud.

Virtualization

Resurgent VMware Canada discusses strategy at Dell Technologies Toronto Forum

October 31, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Resurgent VMware Canada discusses strategy at Dell Technologies Toronto Forum
VMware Canada Country Manager Sean Forkan discusses changes made since he took the job to restore the company’s momentum in Canada, and talked about where they are going in the months ahead.

Cloud

Address scary change with fearless, optimistic change: Dell Technologies

October 31, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Address scary change with fearless, optimistic change: Dell Technologies
Pivotal executive and proud tech geek Chad Sakac gave the keynote at the Dell Technologies Forum in Toronto on Tuesday, deconstructing the present process of technological change, and counselling customers on a strategy of how to address scary change that transcended the Dell companies, which involves embracing change in their companies and providing ways to encourage it from the bottom up.