Month: June 2020

Communications

Why UCaaS, and why now: Benefits, insights, and examples

June 30, 2020 Guest Poster Comments Off on Why UCaaS, and why now: Benefits, insights, and examples
Avaya Canada channel leader Miles Davis with some thoughts on why the time for UCaaS is now.

Unified Communications

Avaya launches Avaya Cloud Office in Canada with agent-focused strategy

June 30, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avaya launches Avaya Cloud Office in Canada with agent-focused strategy
Avaya Canada took advantage of the 90 days since the initial launch of Avaya Cloud Office in the U.S. to get what for them is a new Go-to-Market model in place, and also benefit from some tweaks to the solution.

Big Data

New NVIDIA vGPU release targets Work From Home audience

June 30, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on New NVIDIA vGPU release targets Work From Home audience
This release now provides 120Hz VSync support at resolutions up to 4K, which improves both VR and AR capabilities, and also facilitates collaborate real time rendering of high level graphics from employees distributed in home locations.

Managed Services

Diamanti adds multi-cluster Kubernetes, enhances MSP capability with Spektra 3.0  

June 30, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Diamanti adds multi-cluster Kubernetes, enhances MSP capability with Spektra 3.0  
With stateful applications now making up over half of containerized applications, Diamanti thinks multi-cluster Kubernetes management has become essential.

Security

New ransomware posing as COVID‑19 tracing app targets Canada; ESET offers decryptor

June 29, 2020 ESET Guest Blog Comments Off on New ransomware posing as COVID‑19 tracing app targets Canada; ESET offers decryptor
ESET researchers dissect an Android app that masquerades as an official COVID-19 contact-tracing app and encrypts files on the victim’s device

Backup

Pax8 strengthens Veeam ecosystem with NewCloud Networks partnership

June 29, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pax8 strengthens Veeam ecosystem with NewCloud Networks partnership
NewCloud brings Pax8 MSPs cloud storage and compute resources to support Veeam Cloud Connect, as well as simplification of Veeam licensing.

Networking

Netsurion adds Remote Workforce Security to its EventTracker SIEM

June 29, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Netsurion adds Remote Workforce Security to its EventTracker SIEM
The new capability is a free addition to the EventTracker platform, and is designed to spot irregularities among dispersed Work From Home employees.

Managed Services

Digital Defense targets front line health workers with free ransomware vulnerability offer

June 26, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Digital Defense targets front line health workers with free ransomware vulnerability offer
End users need to sign up by July 15. While the offer is targeted at them, it is a channel initiative, and enrollees who don’t have an MSP partner will be introduced to one as part of the program.

Backup

StorageCraft emphasizes benefits for MSPs in ShadowXafe 4.0

June 25, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft emphasizes benefits for MSPs in ShadowXafe 4.0
The enhancements to the new release of StorageCraft’s flagship data protection software are focused on filling in small gaps and connecting dots, to allow MSPs to use it as a single platform to cover all business continuity use cases.

Mobility

BlackBerry looks to expand downmarket by introducing AtHoc Managed Service

June 25, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on BlackBerry looks to expand downmarket by introducing AtHoc Managed Service
The new managed service is the direct result of the pandemic, with customers outside of AtHoc’s traditional large organization market asking BlackBerry to stand up a service for them.