Month: October 2020

Cloud

Ping Identity unveils first two cloud services in ‘land and expand’ customer acquisition strategy

October 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ping Identity unveils first two cloud services in ‘land and expand’ customer acquisition strategy
PingOne MFA and PingOne Risk Management are the first two services in an inventory of cloud services that Ping expects to hit double digits.

Channel Programs

Unified BlackBerry partner program brings new reseller focus from Cylance

October 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Unified BlackBerry partner program brings new reseller focus from Cylance
BlackBerry introduced its new partner program at its BlackBerry Security Summit, while emphasizing the importance of partners to the Go-to-Market strategy going forward.

Mobility

BlackBerry looks to displace signature-based solutions with new Cyber Suite

October 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on BlackBerry looks to displace signature-based solutions with new Cyber Suite
The BlackBerry Cyber Suite includes two brand new offerings, BlackBerry Protect Mobile and BlackBerry Persona Desktop, a UEBA solution. It also includes the existing BlackBerry Protect Desktop and BlackBerry Optics EDR.

Artificial Intelligence

Blue Prism unveils Service Assist digital workforce solution for contact centres

October 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Blue Prism unveils Service Assist digital workforce solution for contact centres
Blue Prism sees the new offering as filling a major void in an important market, and as providing a good opportunity for channel partners who work the contact centre market.

Security

Ping Identity lays out personal identity management vision with ShoCard acquisition

October 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ping Identity lays out personal identity management vision with ShoCard acquisition
ShoCard’s blockchain-based technology, which will be integrated into the Ping Intelligent Identity Platform, creates an identity wallet which gives the user more granular control over the identity information they surrender in digital transactions.

Managed Services

Linksys eliminates license fees, improves free technical support with Linksys Cloud Manager 2.0

October 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Linksys eliminates license fees, improves free technical support with Linksys Cloud Manager 2.0
Linksys has also strengthened their support for the channel selling this Business Division offering by strengthening support for partner business motions and improving its optimization for MSPs.

Software

Rancher Labs enhances user experience, expands use cases in new product release

October 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rancher Labs enhances user experience, expands use cases in new product release
The 2.5 release of the Rancher platform also adds the ability to deliver GitOps capabilities at scale, improved Amazon EKS cluster management, and a broader version of the government version of their platform.

Backup

Commvault Metallic targets Commvault install base with new Metallic Cloud Storage Service

October 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault Metallic targets Commvault install base with new Metallic Cloud Storage Service
The new cloud service is designed to give Commvault customers an easy-button option to establish a cloud backup on Azure.

Backup

Veeam buys Kasten as flurry of Kubernetes management acquisitions continues

October 5, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam buys Kasten as flurry of Kubernetes management acquisitions continues
Veeam sees Kasten’s technology with its focus on the application perspective and strong suitability for backup and DR use cases as highly synergistic with itself

data security
Security

Help your customers do their part to #BeCyberSmart

October 5, 2020 Barracuda MSP Guest Blog Comments Off on Help your customers do their part to #BeCyberSmart
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is the perfect time to educate clients about domain and brand impersonation scams, which are on the rise.