Year: 2020

Podcasts

ESET to partners: “We’re here to help” as customers face WFH security challenges

April 7, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on ESET to partners: “We’re here to help” as customers face WFH security challenges
ESET Canada’s Bob Bonneau and Cam Leetham discuss changing security priorities as customers rapidly pivot to a work-from-home environment, and what ESET is doing to help its partners solve those problems on this edition of the podcast.

Hyper-converged

StorMagic expands into encryption key management by acquiring B.C.-based KeyNexus

April 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorMagic expands into encryption key management by acquiring B.C.-based KeyNexus
Jeff MacMillan, founder and CEO of Victoria-based KeyNexus, becomes StorMagic’s CTO, with responsibility for the whole company’s technology strategy.

Channel Programs

Poly brings together Plantronics, Polycom partner programs

April 7, 2020 Mark Cox 1
The new Poly partner program which brings the two legacy ones together will feature a new partner portal, that will be live on April 10.

Backup

StorageCraft OneXafe Solo hits GA with broader market than first envisioned

April 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft OneXafe Solo hits GA with broader market than first envisioned
While OneXafe Solo’s ability to self-install by being plugged in is useful in today’s health conscious environment that same ability to cut MSP costs around original installs attracted partners in the beta who had not worked with StorageCraft before.

Podcasts

“We’ve already seen the light”: F12.net on rapid move towards work-from-home

April 6, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on “We’ve already seen the light”: F12.net on rapid move towards work-from-home
F12.net CMO Devon Gillard on how the managed service provider rapidly transitioned to work from home, and why the COVID-19 pandemic may provide the ultimate validation for the MSP model.

Channel Programs

SonicWall reboots enhanced MSSP partner program

April 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on SonicWall reboots enhanced MSSP partner program
SonicWall has made some significant changes to their MSSP partner program, adding more flexible billing and licensing management options, and tweaking the program tier requirements and benefits.

Cloud

Lenovo adds new infrastructure for Microsoft Azure environments

April 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo adds new infrastructure for Microsoft Azure environments
The Lenovo ThinkAgile MX1021 is a turnkey HCI appliance designed around the Microsoft Azure Stack for edge use cases, while the ThinkSystem DM7100 is an NVMe-powered unified storage array whose tiering capabilities are well suited to hybrid cloud strategies.

Backup

Scale Computing expands Acronis backup partnership to Cloud Storage

April 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing expands Acronis backup partnership to Cloud Storage
Scale has seen their initial partnership with Acronis around Acronis Backup to be a major competitive displacement advantage for partners, and are looking to extend that further with the Acronis cloud backup solution.

Managed Services

Pulseway steps up autoremediation of alerts with new Automation Workflows feature

April 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pulseway steps up autoremediation of alerts with new Automation Workflows feature
Automation Workflows introduce high customizable autoremediation capabilities into the Pulseway alerting system, allowing most tasks to be handled by the system itself.

Harry Zarek, president of Compugen
Podcasts

How Compugen is responding to the COVID19 pandemic

April 2, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on How Compugen is responding to the COVID19 pandemic
Compugen president Harry Zarek on how the solution provider is adapting to COVID19, what customers are looking for, and how the pandemic is going to change business models forever.