Year: 2018

Printing and Imaging

HP enters rigid printing market with new latex printing technology

March 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP enters rigid printing market with new latex printing technology
HP’s new latex ink promises to overcome the limitations of the technology that has dominated the rigid printing wide-format market, and allow white ink to make a return to popularity.

Networking

Palo Alto Networks brings cloud management option, new UI to Traps endpoint protection

March 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks brings cloud management option, new UI to Traps endpoint protection
Traps has also been better integrated with the Palo Alto Networks Application Framework, something that is likely to please channel partners. So will the increased channel enablement around this Traps release.

Financing

ESET looks to financing program with Hitachi Capital America to support bigger deals

March 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on ESET looks to financing program with Hitachi Capital America to support bigger deals
ESET’s first financing program for customers in North America has a low entry point for eligibility, and includes all components of the deal, not just the ESET software.

Cloud

Paperspace launches Gradient suite to bring GPU Compute and machine learning to developers

March 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Paperspace launches Gradient suite to bring GPU Compute and machine learning to developers
Gradient provides tools that enables organizations to leverage GPU Compute to make machine learning easier, and the channel is one way that Paperspace is reaching new customers.

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty
Big Data

IBM chases down Watson’s Law

March 21, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on IBM chases down Watson’s Law
IBM CEO GInni Rometty suggests we’re at the beginning of an era where the big differentiator will be how fast companies can learn, with a lot of help from their machines.

Mobility

New Pulse Secure release of virtual Application Delivery Controller adds analytics, improves application visibility

March 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Pulse Secure release of virtual Application Delivery Controller adds analytics, improves application visibility
The new analytics capability is the first stage of a Pulse Secure project which by next year, is intended to provide systematic linkages to orchestration and automation.

Hardware

Dell EMC unveils Virtual Edge hardware platform for SD-WAN

March 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC unveils Virtual Edge hardware platform for SD-WAN
Dell EMC isn’t becoming an SD-WAN vendor, but they will go to market with software partners integrated with their customized x86 adaption in the form of a networking platform, which is the first using the new Intel Xeon D-2100 processor.

Cloud

Strong channel opportunity in BlackBerry BRIDGE native integration of Microsoft apps within BlackBerry Dynamics

March 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Strong channel opportunity in BlackBerry BRIDGE native integration of Microsoft apps within BlackBerry Dynamics
BlackBerry BRIDGE integrates Microsoft Office 365 apps with BlackBerry Dynamics, bridging the two separate containers and encryption models, to provide enterprise security for Office 365.

Internet of Things

BlackBerry doubles down on ‘Enterprise of Things’ IoT capabilities

March 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on BlackBerry doubles down on ‘Enterprise of Things’ IoT capabilities
BlackBerry is also deepening partner opportunities around what they call the Enterprise of Things, with their recent SHIELD Advisor accreditation, and an upcoming Secure Applications Integration Consultant capability.

Backup

Zerto extends IBM partnership around IBM Resiliency Orchestration DRaaS solution

March 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zerto extends IBM partnership around IBM Resiliency Orchestration DRaaS solution
Zerto is already an established IBM partner, including a relationship with IBM Resiliency. The partnership is now being extended to the IBM Resiliency Orchestration DRaaS offering.