Year: 2018

Cloud

Security, compliance and usability are enhancements in Pulse Connect Secure 9.0 release

May 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Security, compliance and usability are enhancements in Pulse Connect Secure 9.0 release
Features likely to be of significant interest to the partner community include new Android on-demand capability, as well as deployment capability on AWS as well as Azure.

Security

Okta adds free solution, and path to password-free future

May 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Okta adds free solution, and path to password-free future
The OneApp free solution is part of Okta’s long-term plan to be the de facto identity layer in any software. Okta ThreatInsight, available later this year, will replace passwords by using contextual information about users, devices and networks to assess threats.

Cloud

With new CEO imminent, Vena Solutions unveils new product release

May 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on With new CEO imminent, Vena Solutions unveils new product release
The focus is on improved usability with the latest Vena quarterly upgrade, including full integration with Office 365, an improved interface and template automation.

Backup

Canonical sees huge boost to OpenStack from Bootstack integration with Trilio backup and recovery solution

May 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canonical sees huge boost to OpenStack from Bootstack integration with Trilio backup and recovery solution
Canonical believes that bringing Trilio directly into Ubuntu will have a profound impact on OpenStack enterprise adoption, making OpenStack much more attractive to the private cloud market and allowing its cost advantages over Vmware to have more resonance.

Networking

SonicWall looks to double down on growth pace after achieving full separation from Quest

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SonicWall looks to double down on growth pace after achieving full separation from Quest
While the financial and organizational linkages to Quest since it and SonicWall were spun together out of Dell in November 2016 were not at the level of a distraction, the removal of their final elements will benefit the company going forward.

Cloud

Pivot3 fills out HCI cloud strategy for partners by adding new capabilities, plus Azure and Google support

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 fills out HCI cloud strategy for partners by adding new capabilities, plus Azure and Google support
Pivot3 is stressing that while other HCI vendors have intelligent hybrid cloud strategies, they have one that is in production today.

Security

FireEye looks to further expansion in Canada with new channel solutions, consumption models

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on FireEye looks to further expansion in Canada with new channel solutions, consumption models
FireEye sells almost entirely through the channel, but has recently doubled down on channel enablement with a series of enablement initiatives that cover product, pricing models, and partner compensation.

Backup

Hitachi Vantara fills out end-to-end copy management solution with HDID 6.5

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara fills out end-to-end copy management solution with HDID 6.5
Hitachi Data Instance Director, which had been around Hitachi Data Services since 2008, gets an updating from integration with Hitachi Content Platform and analytics technologies which came in the formation of Hitachi Vantara.

Backup

Panzura partners with Veeam and achieves Veeam Ready certification

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Panzura partners with Veeam and achieves Veeam Ready certification
Panzura’s hybrid cloud NAS gains an additional use case with the certification, which will enable joint Veeam and Panzura solutions for cloud-native VM backup and DR in any public or private cloud.

Security

12 months on, what are the lessons learned from WannaCryptor?

May 18, 2018 Guest Poster Comments Off on 12 months on, what are the lessons learned from WannaCryptor?
A year after WannaCryptor became one of the most publicized attacks ever, what have we learned from this massive ransomware incident? ESET takes a look.