Security
Cybersecurity Advent calendar: Stay close to one another… Safely!
This year, many of us will be celebrating Christmas with our loved ones virtually, however we shouldn’t underestimate the value of securing our online communication
Month: December 2020
Security
Infoblox partners with Forrester to decipher threat investigation challenges for enterprises
New research from Forrester and Infoblox shows security teams recognize the importance of DNS in keeping their enterprise safe, but a majority are still under-invested.
Cloud
Cybereason, Oracle announce strategic partnership
Oracle becomes Cybereason’s preferred cloud platform, while Cybereason’s cybersecurity is integrated into the Oracle cloud, and the two companies will engage in joint Go-to-Market efforts.
Security
BEC: The $1.7 billion scheme your customers can’t afford to ignore
Best practices for identifying and combatting business email compromise, from Chris Crellin of Barracuda MSP
Cloud
Sage launches Partner Cloud Program to facilitate migrations to Azure
The program, which covers the U.S. and Canada, covers Sage 100 and Sage 300, which in Canada will overwhelmingly be Sage 300.
Backup
StorageCraft introduces next-gen of legacy ShadowProtect offering with SPX 7
StorageCraft has reworked their ShadowProtect offering specifically to address requests for improved security, in part to handle Work From Home environments, and to handle the increasingly large volumes of storage that has to be backed up.
Backup
Clumio targets competitor installs with air-gapped Clumio RansomProtect service
Clumio’s new service is specifically focused on providing ransomware protection, making it ideal for customers with another vendor solution for their primary backup needs, who are looking for a separate service to provide protection that will be much harder to attack and corrupt.
Cloud
Morpheus Data adds downmarket option with Morpheus Essentials
Morpheus also enables non-technical users to spin them up without waiting for IT, and enables strategic and channel partners to more easily make additional integrations of their own.
Security
COVID, Work From Home making spear phishing attacks more widespread and dangerous
A new report from Barracuda notes a big jump in dangerous Business email compromise attack compared to last year, probably because Work From Home environments make these attacks more difficult for employees to check out by themselves.
Unified Communications
RingCentral looks to fight video meeting fatigue with free-standing Glip meeting service
Available on a freemium model and not tied to the RingCentral platform, Glip meetings have no real time limit, and facilitate pre- and post-meeting preparation and collaboration so that meetings have more context than is typically the case.
Hardware
ScalePad offers partners bullish outlook, new incents at first big partner event since rebranding
ScalePad’s introductory free trial of their Software Asset Management ends December 31, but the company announced new measures to replace it at their virtual conference for their MSPs on Monday.
Cloud
iXsystems enables open hybrid cloud management for partners with TrueCommand Cloud management platform
TrueCommand, which is a key element in iXystems’ hybrid cloud strategy, will be supported by the iXsystems Partner Program.
Cloud
Extreme Networks beefs up presence in growing Canadian market with Canada-based cloud platform and commitment to expand Canadian R&D
Paul Semak, who runs Extreme Networks’ sales in Canada, provides an update on the company’s recent developments and Canadian momentum.
Managed Services
SolarWinds MSP President Pagliuca lays out plans at online partner event
While 2020 has been a hideous year for most, it has generally been a good year for many MSPs’ bottom lines, if not their work-life balance. John Pagliuca gives his assessment of the year, and what the company – whatever it is called after the impending spinoff – will be doing for MSPs in the year ahead.
Backup
SolarWinds MSP lays out monitoring, data protection and security product roadmap at online partner event
The company’s product roadmap, unsurprisingly, is consistent with the broader corporate strategy of increasing automation, and moving towards more product innovation.
Cloud
New Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami to focus on execution as company transforms from HCI provider to HCI provider
Nutanix has announced the appointment of Rajiv Ramaswami as President, CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. He succeeds co-founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey, who had announced in August he would retire once […]
Backup
Axcient removes obstacle to MSP productivity with x360Recover Virtual Office
Axcient enables MSPs to spin up virtual infrastructure themselves in the event of a customer incident, without having to put in a ticket and wait for Axcient support to respond, as had been the case in the old system.
Backup
Arcserve expands Sophos partnership with X Series appliances for bigger data needs
The X Series Appliances Secured by Sophos covers customer needs up to the 3PB range, significantly higher than the successful 9000 series introduced a year ago, which was the first joint collaborative product of Arcserve and Sophos.
Storage
Hitachi Vantara strengthens midmarket play with downmarket expansion of VSP E-Series, introduction of Hitachi Virtual Storage-as-a-Service
Also announced, at Hitachi’s AdVantage 2020 event, was the HNAS, a more powerful upgrade of their NAS gateway solution, and new channel tools and incents to help sell the new offerings.
Computers
Dell focuses on protecting supply chain with new security enhancements
Dell has unveiled multiple security enhancements which the company is stressing continues improvements being embedded into their technology, with an emphasis here on validating security throughout the supply chain.