Year: 2020

Hardware

Third Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors highlight broad Intel product announcements

June 18, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Third Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors highlight broad Intel product announcements
The new Cooper Lake processors, and the other components of the Intel announcement, all share a focus on improving AI-related capabilities.

Channel Programs

ViewSonic retools Finch Club incents to better enable partners in pandemic era

June 17, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on ViewSonic retools Finch Club incents to better enable partners in pandemic era
A new Virtual Product Demo program pairs with a Bounty Program that gives a SPIF to channel reps for setting up a customer demo.

Artificial Intelligence

SAS looks with pride on pandemic record and to future with multiple new partnerships

June 17, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAS looks with pride on pandemic record and to future with multiple new partnerships
At their virtualized Global Forum, SAS also previewed their upcoming Viya 4 release.

Artificial Intelligence

SAS and Microsoft team up on cloud analytics

June 16, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on SAS and Microsoft team up on cloud analytics
SAS will select Azure as the preferred cloud platform, and the two companies will look for ways to embed SAS’ analytics offerings through Microsoft’s stack.

Artificial Intelligence

Zycada launches with bot solution to make e-commerce sites faster than Amazon

June 16, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zycada launches with bot solution to make e-commerce sites faster than Amazon
Zycada is still in direct proof of concept selling, but plans to build out a channel of both MSPs and VARs.

Servers

Dell decouples OneFS software from hardware and puts it in servers with PowerScale brand

June 16, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell decouples OneFS software from hardware and puts it in servers with PowerScale brand
The new PowerScale OneFS operating system introduces new software capabilities, including DataIQ, which complements CloudIQ by extending insights to data and making them more broadly accessible.

Backup

Cohesity adds consumption-based pricing to MSP program

June 16, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity adds consumption-based pricing to MSP program
Cohesity offers partners the ability to use the pricing model preferred by most service providers, as they expand their MSP channel both upmarket to large telcos and downmarket to MSPs who serve the SMB and midmarket.

Managed Services

Pulseway makes patch management in its RMM software available as standalone solution

June 16, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pulseway makes patch management in its RMM software available as standalone solution
Pulseway is aiming Pulseway Patch, the standalone version of the automated patching they added to their RMM last year, at SMB IT departments and at MSPs who don’t use Pulseway.

Backup

HYCU extends partner program to support Cloud Service Providers

June 15, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on HYCU extends partner program to support Cloud Service Providers
HYCU broadens its partner program to reflect the extension of its cloud partnering strategy since it introduced its Protégé multi-cloud program.

Cloud

NEC launches UNIVERGE BLUE UCaaS and CCaaS services in Canada

June 15, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on NEC launches UNIVERGE BLUE UCaaS and CCaaS services in Canada
In its first launch of these new white-labelled Intermedia offerings outside the U.S., NEC is looking to use them to re-establish a strong presence in Canada.