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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.