Month: September 2020

Managed Services

Pulseway expands Remote Control support to macOS

September 15, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pulseway expands Remote Control support to macOS
Pulseway expands its Remote Control for Windows to also cover Macs, and plans to go beyond this to cover MacOS patching and third party patching for macOS, just as they earlier did for Windows.

Cloud

Zoho looks to take on Microsoft Teams with collaboration-focused Zoho Workplace

September 10, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zoho looks to take on Microsoft Teams with collaboration-focused Zoho Workplace
Zoho Workplace is a suite of nine existing Zoho collaboration, productivity, and communications applications which have the advantage of being fully integrated with each other and with other Zoho business process apps.

Networking

Getting to know Infoblox

September 9, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Getting to know Infoblox
Infoblox channel chief Lori Cornmesser takes us through the networking vendor’s go-to-market, channel strategy, and top opportunities in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.

Managed Services

Cynet adds Incident Engine automated response capability in Cynet 360 V4.0.

September 9, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cynet adds Incident Engine automated response capability in Cynet 360 V4.0.
Cynet, which offers a breach detection service with a wide range of capabilities, is also branding itself as an XDR vendor with this release, reflecting the fact that the XDR term has come into wide use in the market since they began offering their services.

Cloud

Nutanix, Microsoft partner around hybrid solution using Nutanix Clusters on Azure

September 8, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix, Microsoft partner around hybrid solution using Nutanix Clusters on Azure
Nutanix follows up their recent partnership with AWS with a second major cloud infrastructure partnership, designed to emphasize the importance of the company’s focus now on hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Channel Programs

Nutanix launches simpler, competency-based Elevate partner program

September 8, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix launches simpler, competency-based Elevate partner program
The Nutanix Channel Charter, introduced only two years ago, will run in parallel with the Elevate program until all partners have made their competency choices, with all partners being grandfathered under the Channel Charter benefits until then.

Cloud

Nutanix stresses Run Better, Run Faster themes with new software announcements

September 8, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix stresses Run Better, Run Faster themes with new software announcements
Nutanix’s flurry of new product news follows a general theme of moving from HCI where they began to a broader hybrid cloud infrastructure story.

Managed Services

Employee training: Preventing sensitive information from leaving the network

September 8, 2020 Barracuda MSP Guest Blog Comments Off on Employee training: Preventing sensitive information from leaving the network
Your security offering is only as effective as its weakest link, and often that link is your customer’s employees, says Barracuda MSP’s Nathan Bradbury.

Backup

Clumio expands presence in Canada to meet enterprise backup-as-a-service demand

September 4, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Clumio expands presence in Canada to meet enterprise backup-as-a-service demand
SaaS backup-as-a-service startup Clumio, which sells entirely through channel partners, hired its first Canada-based sales and engineering team this spring, and is seeing good results in the Canadian market.

Hyper-converged

Lenovo DCG announces new HCI solutions around Nutanix, Microsoft, VMware and Diamanti partnerships

September 3, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo DCG announces new HCI solutions around Nutanix, Microsoft, VMware and Diamanti partnerships
While the Microsoft and Diamanti solutions are complete net-news, the expansion of the Nutanix ThinkAgile HX portfolio to include the first AMD models in the Lenovo HCI portfolio may be the biggest news.