Month: July 2021

Podcasts

What solution providers need to know about Zero Trust

July 14, 2021 Robert Dutt Comments Off on What solution providers need to know about Zero Trust
Mark Ballegeer, systems engineer at Barracuda MSP, takes us through what Zero Trust security is, how it works, and what it means for solution providers in this edition of the podcast.

Networking

Illumio strengthens Zero Trust Segmentation platform Illumio Core

July 14, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Illumio strengthens Zero Trust Segmentation platform Illumio Core
Enhancements in the new version include adding reducing the time it takes to protect against attacks, by providing more flexibility to automated security enforcement, by improving Intelligent Visibility and by adding new SuperClusters to scale up the number of supported workloads.

Channel Programs

AvePoint continues channel consistency strategy with new partner program

July 13, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on AvePoint continues channel consistency strategy with new partner program
The new program, which is designed to be simple and flexible, dumps some program concepts the company considers legacy, and moves to a two-tiered structure of Authorized and Invested partners.

Channel Programs

Cybereason rolls out enhanced and rebadged Cybereason Defenders League partner program

July 13, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cybereason rolls out enhanced and rebadged Cybereason Defenders League partner program
The new program is global, unlike its predecessors, has added a new classification for Referral Partners and beefed up another, Incident Response, as part of a move to broaden the partner base in that segment.

Artificial Intelligence

Zoho introduces self-service Business Intelligence Platform

July 13, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zoho introduces self-service Business Intelligence Platform
Zoho’s new platform combines an enhanced version of their existing Zoho Analytics solution with Zoho DataPrep, a new offering which provides data cleansing capabilities.

Channel Programs

SUSE seeing success with restructured business model, channel approach, to address changing IT trends

July 12, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on SUSE seeing success with restructured business model, channel approach, to address changing IT trends
The acquisition of Kubernetes management platform provider Rancher Labs in late 2020 marked a key step in the evolution of SUSE’s market strategy from selling their Linux OS to selling a full solution stack around it.

Artificial Intelligence

Five key MSP growth areas in the evolving economy

July 12, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Five key MSP growth areas in the evolving economy
Midwestern MSP Aunalytics identifies the key trends they are seeing in managed services today, and what areas of their practice are increasing as a result.

Hyper-converged

Scale Computing sees enormous opportunity in full-stack solutions being created by expansion of IBM’s edge ecosystem

July 9, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing sees enormous opportunity in full-stack solutions being created by expansion of IBM’s edge ecosystem
IBM’s expansion of its ecosystem around IBM Edge Application Manager, which added Scale as a partner, not only brings them in for their traditional ecostructure branch-office-in-a-box play, but will likely make them part of more complex solutions with other third-party vendors.

Managed Services

Using services as an MSP growth driver

July 7, 2021 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Using services as an MSP growth driver
Demand for managed services is growing, with security playing a critical role, writes Barracuda MSP’s Neal Bradbury.

Channel Programs

Nozomi Networks reconstructs channel program as new ADVantage Partner Program

July 7, 2021 Mark Cox 1
The program’s new name is a play on their newly introduced Vantage SaaS solution, but more than the name is new, as the previous largely ad hoc program has been replaced by a more structured format.