Year: 2018

Nirav Sheth, vice president of global sales in Cisco’s Global Partner Organization
Communications

Cisco unifies collaboration line under WebEx brand

April 18, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco unifies collaboration line under WebEx brand
Cisco will bring its collaboration lineup into one package, with a common backend and under the WebEx brand.

Cloud

Kaspersky Lab reaches for the public cloud with new Hybrid Cloud Security solution

April 18, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaspersky Lab reaches for the public cloud with new Hybrid Cloud Security solution
The new offering, the first from Kaspersky Lab to provide public cloud protection, will start with support for the AWS and Azure clouds.

Big Data

Splunk unveils first packaged offering for Industrial Internet of Things

April 18, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk unveils first packaged offering for Industrial Internet of Things
Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence [IAI] makes monitoring and diagnosis of equipment and operational issues in industrial IoT environments much easier, and while initially a limited group of SI partners will take part, Splunk sees it as having broader channel applicability down the line.

Channel Programs

Netsurion integrates EventTracker channel program with their own in partner expansion push

April 18, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Netsurion integrates EventTracker channel program with their own in partner expansion push
Netsurion is looking to an integrated solution set of SD-WAN with SIEM and firewall security to significantly expand their TAM into new verticals, and is seeking to significantly expand their partner base to strengthen them in these new markets.

David West, vice president of enterprise networking sales at Cisco
Networking

Cisco goes subscription-based with routing

April 18, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco goes subscription-based with routing
Cisco announces it will make its routing portfolio available on a subscription basis, and on a promo basis, will make ISR hardware free for customers with a five-year subscription.

Channel Programs

Bare metal container platform provider Diamanti launches first channel program

April 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Bare metal container platform provider Diamanti launches first channel program
Diamanti quickly adopted an all-channel go-to-market in the face of resellers looking for a turnkey enterprise container management solution, and now has introduced a program to support what will start off as a select value channel.

Printing and Imaging

HP completes A3 product portfolio for Office of the Future, deepens partner services play

April 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP completes A3 product portfolio for Office of the Future, deepens partner services play
Part of the expanded services play is a new certification program to train HP print partners how to better sell security related solutions, and understand and recommend third party security integrations.

Virtualization

IGEL adds 4K, 60Hz four monitor support with new AMD-powered UD7 endpoint

April 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on IGEL adds 4K, 60Hz four monitor support with new AMD-powered UD7 endpoint
The UD 7, which serves the higher end of the thin client market with more demanding graphics requirement, also will feature the new Secure Boot validation IGEL just announced had been received for their OS.

Managed Services

Addigy adds MDM to their cloud-based MacOS management platform

April 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Addigy adds MDM to their cloud-based MacOS management platform
Addigy has filled a specific role in the market, providing multi-tenanted Mac management, but now, propelled by iPad demand, they have expanded that to all Apple devices with a new unified MacOS management platform.

Cloud

DataStax makes major enhancements to Apache Cassandra with DataStax Enterprise 6

April 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on DataStax makes major enhancements to Apache Cassandra with DataStax Enterprise 6
DataStax, which was the driver in building Apache Cassandra, makes major changes to the platform for the first time in their commercial product, to make it more enterprise-friendly by dramatically upgrading performance and removing manual work.