Year: 2018

Sachin Gupta, senior vice president of product management for enterprise networking at Cisco
Networking

Cisco looks to double intent-based networking market with new switch, adds wireless

November 14, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco looks to double intent-based networking market with new switch, adds wireless
Cisco adds wireless to the Catalyst 9000 family for the first time, while a new SME- and branch-focused switch could end up running one in four ports worldwide, an executive says.

Solution Provider News

Toronto-headquartered Converge Technology Solutions launches on TSXV Exchange with ambitious strategy

November 14, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Toronto-headquartered Converge Technology Solutions launches on TSXV Exchange with ambitious strategy
Converge has acquired five solution providers over the last year, including Ottawa’s Northern Micro, and three in the U.S. They have secured a listing on the Toronto Venture Exchange through amalgamation with a shell company, and have an ambitious plan to expand, which includes many more acquisitions.

Backup

Rubrik enhances hybrid cloud capabilities with Andes 5.0 platform release

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Enhancements in Rubrik’s latest release include certification for SAP HANA, instant recovery capabilities for Oracle database instant recovery and improved Microsoft Office 365 protection on the Rubrik Polaris SaaS platform.

Managed Services

StorageCraft sees complex ConnectWise relationship as critical to both MSP and overall strategy

November 14, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft sees complex ConnectWise relationship as critical to both MSP and overall strategy
Unlike at the ConnectWise spring event, StorageCraft announced no new integrations at the fall event last week. The ConnectWise relationship remains critical to StorageCraft however, as they evolve their business models and practices to keep up with changes in the market.

Networking

Riverbed upgrades SteelHead SD routing stack, adds in-field upgrade capability

November 14, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed upgrades SteelHead SD routing stack, adds in-field upgrade capability
Riverbed is also making OPEX-based subscription pricing available as an option for the SteelHead SD, bringing it in line with other appliances.

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

Cisco: Partners with dev skills growing faster

November 13, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco: Partners with dev skills growing faster
Partners who embrace software development are growing their bookings 10 per cent faster than the average, and are more completely representing the Cisco portfolio, says Cisco Devnet boss Susie Wee.

Sri Srinivasan, vice president and general manager of Webex Teams, Meetings and devices, showing off Webex Share
Unified Communications

Cisco targets ad hoc meeting opportunities with new ‘huddle space’ collaboration offering

November 13, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco targets ad hoc meeting opportunities with new ‘huddle space’ collaboration offering
Cisco’s collaboration team kicks off a busy Partner Summit with new collaboration dongle for any screen, a smaller room-based telepresence package, and the integration of cloud calling into Webex Teams.

Managed Services

IT Glue adds new functionality around custom SSL Branding, Office 365 licensing, and their Mobile App

November 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on IT Glue adds new functionality around custom SSL Branding, Office 365 licensing, and their Mobile App
The Custom SSL branding overcomes an issue where browsers give insecure warnings when the customer accesses IT Glue documents. Initially, the branding is just for public documents, but will eventually cover everything.

Nirav Sheth, vice president of partner solutions, architectures and engineering at Cisco
Networking

Cisco looks to make SD-WAN ‘no-compromise’ with security integration

November 13, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco looks to make SD-WAN ‘no-compromise’ with security integration
By integrating much of its security stack into its ISR routers and introducing application-specific boosts for Office 365, Cisco is hoping to remove the need for customers to make tradeoffs between security and performance in the rapidly-growing SD-WAN market.

Networking

Aruba brings its first 802.11ax access points and new switches to their Edge portfolio

November 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Aruba brings its first 802.11ax access points and new switches to their Edge portfolio
Advances from both the 802.11ax technology and Aruba’s own IP add new power management and IoT capabilities to the new APs.