Month: April 2020

Backup

StorageCraft OneXafe Solo hits GA with broader market than first envisioned

April 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft OneXafe Solo hits GA with broader market than first envisioned
While OneXafe Solo’s ability to self-install by being plugged in is useful in today’s health conscious environment that same ability to cut MSP costs around original installs attracted partners in the beta who had not worked with StorageCraft before.

Podcasts

“We’ve already seen the light”: F12.net on rapid move towards work-from-home

April 6, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on “We’ve already seen the light”: F12.net on rapid move towards work-from-home
F12.net CMO Devon Gillard on how the managed service provider rapidly transitioned to work from home, and why the COVID-19 pandemic may provide the ultimate validation for the MSP model.

Channel Programs

SonicWall reboots enhanced MSSP partner program

April 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on SonicWall reboots enhanced MSSP partner program
SonicWall has made some significant changes to their MSSP partner program, adding more flexible billing and licensing management options, and tweaking the program tier requirements and benefits.

Cloud

Lenovo adds new infrastructure for Microsoft Azure environments

April 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo adds new infrastructure for Microsoft Azure environments
The Lenovo ThinkAgile MX1021 is a turnkey HCI appliance designed around the Microsoft Azure Stack for edge use cases, while the ThinkSystem DM7100 is an NVMe-powered unified storage array whose tiering capabilities are well suited to hybrid cloud strategies.

Backup

Scale Computing expands Acronis backup partnership to Cloud Storage

April 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing expands Acronis backup partnership to Cloud Storage
Scale has seen their initial partnership with Acronis around Acronis Backup to be a major competitive displacement advantage for partners, and are looking to extend that further with the Acronis cloud backup solution.

Managed Services

Pulseway steps up autoremediation of alerts with new Automation Workflows feature

April 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pulseway steps up autoremediation of alerts with new Automation Workflows feature
Automation Workflows introduce high customizable autoremediation capabilities into the Pulseway alerting system, allowing most tasks to be handled by the system itself.

Harry Zarek, president of Compugen
Podcasts

How Compugen is responding to the COVID19 pandemic

April 2, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on How Compugen is responding to the COVID19 pandemic
Compugen president Harry Zarek on how the solution provider is adapting to COVID19, what customers are looking for, and how the pandemic is going to change business models forever.

Channel Programs

Lenovo restructures DCG partner benefits for new fiscal year to better incent channel

April 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo restructures DCG partner benefits for new fiscal year to better incent channel
The multi-faceted changes to the DCG program are designed to refresh policies which new DCG channel head Steve Biondi saw as having disincented strong partner growth activities instead of encouraging them.

Security

Okta CEO says new FastPass will ‘blow you away’ with passwordless login experience

April 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Okta CEO says new FastPass will ‘blow you away’ with passwordless login experience
Okta kicked off Okta 20, its first and what it hopes will be its last virtual annual user conference, with the FastPass announcement, which leverages new Okta Platform Services to create a secure biometrics-based login experience.

Partnerships

New RingCentral Video now part of both RingCentral Office and Avaya Cloud Office

April 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on New RingCentral Video now part of both RingCentral Office and Avaya Cloud Office
While RingCentral maintains its partnership with Zoom, its new browser-based video now comes standard in RingCentral Office. It is also standard in Avaya Cloud Office, although Avaya will continue to sell its own video solutions to their enterprise customers.