Year: 2018

Security

Sophos adds Deep Learning to its email in Sophos Email Advanced

June 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sophos adds Deep Learning to its email in Sophos Email Advanced
Sophos integrates its email solution with their Sophos Central cloud platform, and with their Synchronized Security cross-product collaboration capabilities are able to bring their deep learning functionality to their email.

Big Data

AtScale brings their Data Lake middleware to Amazon, Microsoft and Google cloud marketplaces

June 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on AtScale brings their Data Lake middleware to Amazon, Microsoft and Google cloud marketplaces
AtScale allows organizations to use their familiar BI tools like Tableau and Excel to process Big Data at extreme speeds. The new cloud marketplace initiative is aimed mainly at departments of enterprises.

Susie Wee, vice president and CTO of DevNet at Cisco
Networking

Cisco adds DevNet Ecosystem Exchange as developer community continues to grow

June 11, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco adds DevNet Ecosystem Exchange as developer community continues to grow
Cisco introduces DevNet Ecosystem Exchange to help expose software built around its platform and APIs as its developer community ranks rise past 500,000.

Cloud

Nutanix receives SAP certification for SAP HANA in non-production environments

June 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix receives SAP certification for SAP HANA in non-production environments
While this in itself is huge news for Nutanix and their channel partners, the goal is to have HANA certified for production environments in the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS with their 5.9 release.

Channel Communities

Tech Data looks to drive innovation thought leadership with Milton Education Village Innovation Centre partnership

June 8, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tech Data looks to drive innovation thought leadership with Milton Education Village Innovation Centre partnership
This third-party partnership will leverage Tech Data manufacturing and solution provider partners, as well as their internal resources, to collaborate with the MEV around digital transformation initiatives, especially for SMBs.

Digital Signage

ViewSonic deepens collaboration display portfolio with enhanced IFP60 series

June 8, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on ViewSonic deepens collaboration display portfolio with enhanced IFP60 series
ViewSonic also announced two new commercial displays, the The ViewSonic CDE8600, a large 86-inch 4K digital signage display, and ViewSonic CDX5562, a 55-inch model with narrow bezels designed to be part of a large video wall.

Hardware

Lenovo expands Smart Office initiative with ThinkSmart Hub 700

June 7, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo expands Smart Office initiative with ThinkSmart Hub 700
Lenovo continues their strategy designed to make them a major Smart Office player, with the announcement of their second ThinkSmart offering for the Smart Office, following up their first, which just was released to General Availability.

Data Centre

EXCLUSIVE: Maxta to offer pre-configured HCI appliances through Arrow

June 7, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on EXCLUSIVE: Maxta to offer pre-configured HCI appliances through Arrow
In a related announcement, Maxta announces a new relationship with large account reseller Connection, which will be able to leverage these new pre-configured appliances.

Data Centre

NetApp and Cisco roll out new first of new vertical solutions, plus Managed Private Cloud solution

June 7, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp and Cisco roll out new first of new vertical solutions, plus Managed Private Cloud solution
The vertical solution is FlexPod Datacenter for Epic EHR, and the short-range strategy is to roll out additional solutions for the health care vertical – including additional ones for EHR – and then move to other verticals.

Data Centre

Dimension Data sees strong prospects for BPO expansion in Canada with Millennium 1 acquisition

June 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dimension Data sees strong prospects for BPO expansion in Canada with Millennium 1 acquisition
Millennium 1’s executives have all signed on long-term with Merchants, the Dimension Data subsidiary, and the plan in Canada is to build on Millennium’s rapid expansion by growing the business in verticals where Merchants is strong.