Month: August 2020

Networking

Four non-negotiables for your customers’ DNS service

August 13, 2020 Infoblox Guest Blog Comments Off on Four non-negotiables for your customers’ DNS service
Your customers’ work environments have become highly distributed. Choosing the right DNS service is more critical than ever before.

Managed Services

MSP360 adds to platform solutions with new MSP360 Remote Desktop

August 13, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on MSP360 adds to platform solutions with new MSP360 Remote Desktop
MSP360 has also formally rolled out MSP University, which has reworked their educational offerings to make them easier for MSPs to use in a practical way to build their businesses.

Channel Programs

CyCognito announces first channel leader and first channel program

August 13, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on CyCognito announces first channel leader and first channel program
CyCognito, which looks at attack surfaces from the perspective of a nation-state attacker, maps out weaknesses across the whole attack surface, including indirect assets.

Channel Communities

Open source management vendor FOSSA adds channel, channel chief and channel program

August 13, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Open source management vendor FOSSA adds channel, channel chief and channel program
Former Cloudera channel chief Scott Andress has been named Vice President of Alliances, and is putting in place a partner program to add a channel sales component to the Go-to-Market model.

Backup

Pure Storage, Cohesity extend partnership with Pure FlashRecover jointly engineered solution

August 12, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage, Cohesity extend partnership with Pure FlashRecover jointly engineered solution
Pure and Cohesity have partnered around Pure FlashBlade before, but this is the first jointly engineered effort, and is backed by an integrated Go-to-Market strategy as well.

Security

SaaS application security startup Adaptive Shield comes out of stealth

August 12, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on SaaS application security startup Adaptive Shield comes out of stealth
Adaptive Shield has a strong channel component in their Go-to-Market strategy, which includes both VARs and MSSPs.

Security

SonicWall refreshes high end of both enterprise and SMB firewalls

August 11, 2020 Mark Cox 1
SonicWall has refreshed the hardware and firmware for its enterprise NSsp 15700 and SMB TZ570 and TZ670 firewalls, and has united their management with a common code in the new SonicOS 7.0, which also adds a modern interface.

Security

Anti-phishing vendor SlashNext hires Patrick Harr as CEO to drive next stage of growth

August 10, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Anti-phishing vendor SlashNext hires Patrick Harr as CEO to drive next stage of growth
SlashNext’s new CEO talks with ChannelBuzz about what he sees as SlashNext’s differentiation in the phishing space, and how he intends to drive their expansion so that they become the authority in the space.

Marketing

Avaya rebrands portfolio around Avaya OneCloud name to better highlight cloud value

August 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avaya rebrands portfolio around Avaya OneCloud name to better highlight cloud value
The portfolio has been reorganized into three components: Avaya OneCloud CCaaS; Avaya OneCloud UCaaS; Avaya OneCloud CPaaS.

Artificial Intelligence

Netenrich bolsters security credentials with new Attack Surface Intelligence offering and free global threat intelligence feed

August 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Netenrich bolsters security credentials with new Attack Surface Intelligence offering and free global threat intelligence feed
Knowledge Now, the free global threat intelligence tool, is designed to provide actionable intelligence, while Attack Surface Intelligence provides a hacker’s view of the customer’s environment, and indicating problem areas and how to fix them.