Month: March 2020

Servers

HPE unveils three new ProLiant Gen10 Plus MicroServer Small Business/ ROBO solutions

March 12, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE unveils three new ProLiant Gen10 Plus MicroServer Small Business/ ROBO solutions
The new solutions are based on the newly released Microserver Gen10 Plus HPE released in February, which is half the size of its predecessor, with significantly greater performance.

Managed Services

Aptum brings Alert Logic’s MDR offering to Canada

March 11, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Aptum brings Alert Logic’s MDR offering to Canada
Alert Logic will rely on Aptum as their primary Canadian partner, while Aptum sees a strong market in the Canadian hybrid cloud space for this type of outsourced SOC service.

Artificial Intelligence

ServiceNow adds Now Intelligence analytics to its platform with Orlando release

March 11, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on ServiceNow adds Now Intelligence analytics to its platform with Orlando release
Now Intelligence consists of both new and enhanced features around the AI and analytics theme, in the same way some past releases have emphasized the enhancement of a related series of capabilities.

Data Centre

VMware looks to modernize applications and infrastructure with portfolio redo

March 10, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on VMware looks to modernize applications and infrastructure with portfolio redo
Highlights include a major rearchitecture of vSphere to work seamlessly with Kubernetes, and VMware Cloud Foundation 4, with Tanzu, an evolution of the Pivotal Application Service.

Solution Provider News

Citrix vet Todd Hsu joins Ferroque Systems to drive fully hosted desktop services

March 10, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix vet Todd Hsu joins Ferroque Systems to drive fully hosted desktop services
The plan at Ferroque is to create a fully managed service that will cover digital workspaces and all the apps on top, and sell it to customers on a flat-priced Salesforce model. That’s something Hsu said is widely promised, but not being delivered today.

Cloud

NetApp enhances ROBO capability for Cloud Volumes with Talon Storage acquisition

March 9, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp enhances ROBO capability for Cloud Volumes with Talon Storage acquisition
NetApp and Talon were already strategic partners, but the acquisition and integration of Talon’s technology into NetApp Cloud Volumes will expose it to a much broader audience than the large enterprises who have been buying it.

Channel Programs

Zoom launches Master Agent channel with related Referral Partner Program

March 9, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zoom launches Master Agent channel with related Referral Partner Program
The new channel and program are focused on taking Zoom’s video-first UC platform to market, which they believe will fit partner business models better through a referral system rather than doing deals on the partner’s paper.

Channel Programs

SD-WAN vendor CloudGenix emphasizes innovation in new G2 Partner Program

March 9, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on SD-WAN vendor CloudGenix emphasizes innovation in new G2 Partner Program
CloudGenix’s new partner program makes resources available to partners on Day One, including a structured program for leveraging customer references that provides partners with a relevant customer to join their sales calls.

Security

Panda commits to all-channel model, restructures internal sales for big 2020 North American push

March 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Panda commits to all-channel model, restructures internal sales for big 2020 North American push
Gianluca Busco Arre, who runs Panda’ operations in North America, talks about the company’s technology and their plans to sell it more effectively, which has involved a complete redo of how they go to market.

Virtualization

ControlUp adds VMware support, enhanced scalability in 8.1 release

March 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on ControlUp adds VMware support, enhanced scalability in 8.1 release
ControlUp began with a focus on management and monitoring around Citrix, but customer demand has led them to support VMware Horizon in their new release.