Year: 2020

Unified Communications

Poly adds new 3-in-1 Bluetooth enabled Voyager 4245 with Microsoft Teams certification

March 30, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Poly adds new 3-in-1 Bluetooth enabled Voyager 4245 with Microsoft Teams certification
Poly continues the overhaul of its headset portfolio that has been ongoing for the past several months with a new model, borrowing the same 3-in1 wearing option from the Savi 8245, and providing a Microsoft Teams option.

Backup

Cobalt Iron strengthens IBM-related opportunities with Arrow distribution deal

March 27, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cobalt Iron strengthens IBM-related opportunities with Arrow distribution deal
Cobalt Iron has already had a strong partnership with IBM because of an integration between their backup solutions, and the Arrow relationship will extend this, including bringing IBM’s Spectum Protect into the ArrowSphere cloud.

Distribution

Ingram Micro Canada focuses on flexibility with partner financing options

March 25, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Ingram Micro Canada focuses on flexibility with partner financing options
The distributor’s new Future Funds program lets customers buy solutions now, and decide in six months whether to purchase outright or finance.

Security

Titus Illuminate 2020 integrates with new Titus Accelerator for Privacy solution

March 25, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Titus Illuminate 2020 integrates with new Titus Accelerator for Privacy solution
Titus’ integrating capabilities of their two newer product sets creates new synergies in their expanded market strategy, and is complemented by a deepening of their channel Go-to-Market model.

Channel Programs

Aptum launches first hybrid cloud management service on heels of new channel program launch

March 24, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Aptum launches first hybrid cloud management service on heels of new channel program launch
Aptum, formerly Cogeco Peer 1 until a rebranding last year, revamped its Go-to-market strategy going forward and is executing on that amid the disruption caused by the Wuhan coronavirus.

Backup

New integrations with Google Cloud, AWS Storage Gateway highlight Zerto 8.0

March 24, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on New integrations with Google Cloud, AWS Storage Gateway highlight Zerto 8.0
Zerto is also emphasizing that several enhancements around the public clouds and VMware will be of particular interest to MSP partners.

Security

COVID‑19 and the shift to remote work

March 20, 2020 ESET Guest Blog Comments Off on COVID‑19 and the shift to remote work
As the pandemic forces many employees to work from home, can your organization stay productive – and safe?

Channel Programs

Avanan gets proactive about creating MSP channel for email security suites

March 20, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avanan gets proactive about creating MSP channel for email security suites
The company has gotten more systematic about building out a channel, starting with MSPs, and has created a program for MSPs and MSSPs and hired Mike Lyons as global director of their MSP business.

Hyper-converged

Nutanix scales up Nutanix Objects to support more Big Data workloads

March 19, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix scales up Nutanix Objects to support more Big Data workloads
Multi-cluster support is new in the 2.0 release, as is support for nodes with more capacity, with the result being stronger ability to support more Big Data applications.

Storage

FalconStor reboots with industry’s first enterprise-class persistent data storage container

March 19, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on FalconStor reboots with industry’s first enterprise-class persistent data storage container
FalconStor’s new StorSafe offering leverages containerization with their VTL technology to produce an archiving solution aimed mainly at very long term retention.