Month: May 2019

Cloud

Avaya leverages Google, containers to take cloud UC downmarket with Powered by Avaya IX

May 31, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avaya leverages Google, containers to take cloud UC downmarket with Powered by Avaya IX
The SMB space was a hard sell for partners with virtualized Powered by IP Office, but the company thinks this next-gen rebranded play that runs on the Google cloud will be a popular partner offering.

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Artificial Intelligence

Hunters.AI looks to redefine threat hunting with autonomous hunting approach

May 31, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hunters.AI looks to redefine threat hunting with autonomous hunting approach
The early-stage Israeli startup just completed a seed funding round, and while they are still in proof-of-concept stage, the plan is to take it to MSSPs and MDR partners.

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Backup

Storage Guardian announces formal release of Dropbox BDR solution

May 31, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Storage Guardian announces formal release of Dropbox BDR solution
Storage Guardian’s Extended Protection for Dropbox provides end customers with deeper and more durable protection than Dropbox Business offers, and provides Storage Guardian’s channel with more granular services they can add on top of Dropbox

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Managed Services

MSSP Pondurance rolls out high-touch partner program to build select partner channel

May 31, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on MSSP Pondurance rolls out high-touch partner program to build select partner channel
Pondurance is looking for mid-market focused MSPs, and while their specialized consulting services work on a referral model, partners can resell their MDR offerings.

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Backup

StorageCraft enhances ShadowXafe features for MSP market in new release

May 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft enhances ShadowXafe features for MSP market in new release
The major enhancements to this new release of ShadowXafe, an MSP-friendly billing and invoicing model, and network tunnelling to simplify management of large numbers of devices, are aimed at strengthening it in the MSP market.

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Security

Cyberbit adds virtual instructor, new attack scenarios to Cyber Range training and simulation platform

May 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cyberbit adds virtual instructor, new attack scenarios to Cyber Range training and simulation platform
Cyber Range is the most unique of the four platform offerings from Cyberbit, a spinoff from the Israeli defense giant Elbit Systems.

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Cloud

Palo Alto Networks rebrands and upgrades cloud products within new Prisma suite

May 29, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks rebrands and upgrades cloud products within new Prisma suite
Prisma is basically a ‘Branding Plus’ exercise, where the big news is the rebranding of existing products into a new suite, but the products receive some enhancements – with more to come – to make them work more smoothly together.

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Servers

HPE upgrades HPE Small Business Solutions portfolio

May 29, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE upgrades HPE Small Business Solutions portfolio
HPE enhances six of their SMB solutions, to provide more customer choice and provide additional performance and capacity.

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Managed Services

RapidFire Tools adds new Audit Guru for Cyber Insurance module

May 29, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on RapidFire Tools adds new Audit Guru for Cyber Insurance module
This module joins existing ones for GDPR and HIPAA, and will be followed by others as RapidFire Tools adds additional functionality to the Audit Guru platform.

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Computers

HP refreshes EliteBook and workstation portfolios

May 28, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP refreshes EliteBook and workstation portfolios
HP also is announcing the new HP VR Backpack, a new version of their wearable PC.

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Security

Barracuda adds more proactive defense capability with Barracuda Advanced Bot Protection

May 28, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda adds more proactive defense capability with Barracuda Advanced Bot Protection
Barracuda enhances protection against bots in their WAF and WAF-as-a-Service platforms with new machine learning and AI abilities.

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Hardware

High end mobile refresh highlights Dell Precision workstation announcements at Computex

May 28, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on High end mobile refresh highlights Dell Precision workstation announcements at Computex
Dell is announcing new versions of their Precision 5540, 7540 and 7740 mobile workstations, as well as two updated towers and a rack workstation.

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Channel Programs

ViewSonic steps up Canadian AV channel emphasis with new distributor, AV partner program

May 27, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on ViewSonic steps up Canadian AV channel emphasis with new distributor, AV partner program
Ottawa-based AV DataVisual will expand ViewSonic’s presence in the AV channel, and will focus on selling their interactive flat panels there.

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Managed Services

GMS Live Expert promotes Danny Obaseki to VP of Sales

May 27, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on GMS Live Expert promotes Danny Obaseki to VP of Sales
The Toronto-headquartered outsourced help desk services provider promotes longtime RMM exec Obaseki to its senior ranks as it looks to expand both its MSP base and strategic partnerships.

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Cloud

Teridion integrates with Cisco Meraki MX Security and SD-WAN Appliances to expand route to market for WAN enhancement service

May 24, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Teridion integrates with Cisco Meraki MX Security and SD-WAN Appliances to expand route to market for WAN enhancement service
The meet-in-the-channel partnership will see Cisco Meraki resellers sell the offering, as well as the growing number of partners who are Teridion’s sole route to market for the service.

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Cloud

Wasabi picks cloud distributor Pax8 for first distribution deal

May 24, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Wasabi picks cloud distributor Pax8 for first distribution deal
Wasabi is looking for Pax8 to significantly broaden their pool of quality partners, including through Pax8’s relationship with Veeam and with the RMM/PSA providers.

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Hyper-converged

StorMagic adds key management, KVM hypervisor support to HCI platform

May 24, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorMagic adds key management, KVM hypervisor support to HCI platform
Both the new StorSecure Encryption and Key Management capability, which removes the need for third party key management products, and the KVM support significantly lower the total cost of a StorMagic deployment, an important consideration considering most of their deployments are small ones.

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Cloud

Datrium adds DR to complete data services portfolio in multi-cloud platform

May 24, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datrium adds DR to complete data services portfolio in multi-cloud platform
Datrium has also rebranded their platform from DVX to Automatrix, with the logic being that the platform now has all its core components, with DVX being just one, the primary storage.

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Backup

MSP-focused cloud monetization vendor HyAlto adds Veeam support as they build out ecosystem

May 23, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on MSP-focused cloud monetization vendor HyAlto adds Veeam support as they build out ecosystem
HyAlto, formerly known as AirVM, has retooled its business model to simplify and more effectively monetize cloud services management for MSPs, and has announced support for the Veeam cloud as they build out their ecosystem.

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Cloud

SwiftStack sees growing potential in Veeam partnership as they announce expanded relationship

May 23, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on SwiftStack sees growing potential in Veeam partnership as they announce expanded relationship
The new SwiftStack Software Appliance has a added a 1click Application Profile for Veeam to simplify object storage for Veeam Cloud Tier. It is the second such Application Profile for SwifStack, following another one with Splunk announced earlier this month.

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