Year: 2019

Sponsored Content

Smart buildings are boosting comfort, reducing energy usage and saving money

July 31, 2019 Cisco Canada Guest Blog Comments Off on Smart buildings are boosting comfort, reducing energy usage and saving money
Mark Collins, vice president of Cisco Canada’s partner organization, weighs in on the benefits customers are seeing from smart building strategies, and how the company’s partners are helping.

Printing and Imaging

Lexmark fleshes out roster of small workgroup-focused GO line with new entry level products

July 31, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lexmark fleshes out roster of small workgroup-focused GO line with new entry level products
The GO line was designed to strengthen Lexmark’s push downmarket with product specifically designed for the market, and the new models provide colour options at the entry level.

Security

SafeBreach expands breach simulation platform by linking threats to business impact

July 31, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on SafeBreach expands breach simulation platform by linking threats to business impact
The SafeBreach GRID [Global Risk Director] adds the ability to determine what impact threats will have on a business, so that customers can better prioritize their response.

Storage

StorONE partners with Dell on S1-as-a-Service

July 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorONE partners with Dell on S1-as-a-Service
The new offering, combining StorONE software on Dell servers, costs $999 a month, with everything included, for a 20 TB all-flash array with up to 150,000 IOPS, and includes data protection as well.

Backup

Asigra partners with Zadara to offer MSPs OPEX backup appliance

July 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra partners with Zadara to offer MSPs OPEX backup appliance
Asigra believes the new offering will appeal to MSPs looking to get away from brokerage and get more control over their customers, without having to invest in a data centre.

Storage

In-Memory compute vendor Formulus Black rethinks market strategy with Forsa 3.0 release

July 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on In-Memory compute vendor Formulus Black rethinks market strategy with Forsa 3.0 release
Formulus Black, which lets memory be used as high-performance media, now will run on Intel Optane as well as DRAM, and will now support CentOS as well as Ubuntu, with RHEL support coming later this year.

Storage

Western Digital increases ActiveScale object storage performance, density and services

July 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Western Digital increases ActiveScale object storage performance, density and services
The performance increase is in the range of 3x, while the new Data Pipeline Services streamlines data processing.

Networking

Martello, Paessler target  larger enterprises with new partnership

July 26, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Martello, Paessler target  larger enterprises with new partnership
The new relationship will see Martello’s Savision single pane of glass management software bundled with Paessler’s PRTG Network Monitor solution.

Security

SonicWall CEO Conner surveys changing threat landscape from Mid-Year Threat Report

July 26, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on SonicWall CEO Conner surveys changing threat landscape from Mid-Year Threat Report
Conner emphasized that SonicWall’s layered platform strategy provides the most effective protection for customers from the SMB to the enterprise.

Distribution

D&H brings their professional and managed services programs to Canada

July 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on D&H brings their professional and managed services programs to Canada
D&H services offered in Canada for partners to white-label have been designed for the Canadian market, using Canadian providers for delivery.