Year: 2020

Channel Programs

Lenovo restructures DCG partner benefits for new fiscal year to better incent channel

April 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo restructures DCG partner benefits for new fiscal year to better incent channel
The multi-faceted changes to the DCG program are designed to refresh policies which new DCG channel head Steve Biondi saw as having disincented strong partner growth activities instead of encouraging them.

Security

Okta CEO says new FastPass will ‘blow you away’ with passwordless login experience

April 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Okta CEO says new FastPass will ‘blow you away’ with passwordless login experience
Okta kicked off Okta 20, its first and what it hopes will be its last virtual annual user conference, with the FastPass announcement, which leverages new Okta Platform Services to create a secure biometrics-based login experience.

Partnerships

New RingCentral Video now part of both RingCentral Office and Avaya Cloud Office

April 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on New RingCentral Video now part of both RingCentral Office and Avaya Cloud Office
While RingCentral maintains its partnership with Zoom, its new browser-based video now comes standard in RingCentral Office. It is also standard in Avaya Cloud Office, although Avaya will continue to sell its own video solutions to their enterprise customers.

Cloud

Adobe kicks off virtual tech customer event season

April 1, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Adobe kicks off virtual tech customer event season
Adobe’s virtual Summit, a concession to the unprecedented circumstances created by the coronavirus pandemic, becomes the first annual customer event to try the virtual approach. While new product and strategic direction received less attention than at a regular event, and customer experience rather more, for Adobe specifically, that’s likely enough.

Backup

HYCU expands Protégé multi-cloud platform with HYCU for Azure

March 31, 2020 Mark Cox 1
HYCU, which started out with a purpose-built backup for Nutanix, continues to broaden its native support for other vendors, adding Azure support to the Google Cloud Platform support they announced last year.

Storage

Datadobi adds ability to show chain of custody in data migrations in new release

March 31, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datadobi adds ability to show chain of custody in data migrations in new release
Datadobi’s new release adds the ability to document chain of custody for compliance and legal purposes to DobiMigrate Version 5.8, a differentiator that has been absent before, because it was hard.

Cloud

Komprise rewrites data migration engine to ramp up cross-data centre capability

March 31, 2020 Mark Cox 1
Data migration is a secondary feature of Komprise, which primarily moves data for archiving, but its new Elastic Data Migration capability provides a highly parallelized capability that is ideal for WAN migrations, and should increase that use case.

Storage

Diamanti ramps up Kubernetes HCI platform with Spektra 2.4 release

March 31, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Diamanti ramps up Kubernetes HCI platform with Spektra 2.4 release
Diamanti adds self-encrypting drives for security, asynchronous replication for availability, next generation I/O offload cards, and a new hardware offering with new Intel processors.

Software

Rancher Labs puts support for over one million Kubernetes clusters on roadmap

March 31, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rancher Labs puts support for over one million Kubernetes clusters on roadmap
Today, with Rancher 2.4, the company is scaling up to go from managing a few dozen clusters in the very recent past, to 2000 today, and to a million clusters or more looking forward, as IoT edge use cases ramp up demand.

Channel Programs

Onapsis emphasizes four pillars strategy in new partner program

March 30, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Onapsis emphasizes four pillars strategy in new partner program
Onapsis’ channel strategy has large integrators front and centre, but the company is actively involved in facilitating and creating relationships across the four partner pillars.