Year: 2021

Channel Programs

Nutanix expands Elevate Partner Program with new Service Provider tier

June 9, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix expands Elevate Partner Program with new Service Provider tier
The service provider program, which was announced last fall with the Elevate program and is going live now, has two tiers, and is accompanied by a promo offer that runs through next January.

Channel Programs

Commvault reworks partner program to add tiers for both large and smaller MSPs

June 9, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault reworks partner program to add tiers for both large and smaller MSPs
Commvault’s Metallic SaaS offering has not yet been available to MSP partners, but it will be coming to both sets of MSP partners ‘soon,’ and the company believes it will be highly attractive to both large and small MSPs.

Networking

Pivot to NDR space pays off big for ExtraHop in $900 million sale to VCs

June 9, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot to NDR space pays off big for ExtraHop in $900 million sale to VCs
The purchase by Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners won’t affect ExtraHop’s status as a standalone company, but it will mean more R&D money to expand into natural adjacencies, and more opportunities for channel partners.

Networking

Dell makes announcements around 5G and scalability to help service providers capture edge opportunities

June 9, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell makes announcements around 5G and scalability to help service providers capture edge opportunities
The two big news pieces here are the delivery of an open cloud-native telecom ecosystem and a new Dell Technologies open telecom ecosystem lab.

Managed Services

Pagliuca lays out post-spinoff strategy at N-able Empower event

June 8, 2021 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Pagliuca lays out post-spinoff strategy at N-able Empower event
N-able’s president details where his company will invest in MSPs post-spinoff and promises the company will meet MSPs “in the mess” of the increasingly complex customer landscape they support.

Managed Services

“This is the best time in history to be an MSP” – Herjavec

June 8, 2021 Robert Dutt Comments Off on “This is the best time in history to be an MSP” – Herjavec
Technology is changing at a faster rate than ever. Customers have been stressed and shaken by the global pandemic. Business models everywhere have tied themselves into pretzels to try to accommodate the changes needed. And
Cloud

Infoblox delivers Infoblox 3.0 vision with integrated portal for cloud-first visibility and security

June 8, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Infoblox delivers Infoblox 3.0 vision with integrated portal for cloud-first visibility and security
Infoblox 3.0 is a vision and a strategy, not a new product set, but it’s an important vision and strategy, which provides an integrated cloud-native management console for their on-prem and cloud products alike.

Mobility

Ivanti emphasizes their converged solution set addresses Everywhere Workplace issues at Solutions Summit event

June 8, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ivanti emphasizes their converged solution set addresses Everywhere Workplace issues at Solutions Summit event
The opening keynote from Ivanti’s senior executives focused on Ivanti Neurons, which was introduced last summer, and which they see as central to addressing both remote working issues and facilitating Ivanti’s converged solutions strategy.

Networking

Palo Alto Networks makes five enhancements to Prisma Cloud to eliminate blind spots and reduce false positives

June 8, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks makes five enhancements to Prisma Cloud to eliminate blind spots and reduce false positives
The changes, which are focused on the Prisma Cloud’s Cloud Security Posture Management module, primarily deal with long-standing issues that the industry has not addressed well because they are difficult.

Security

How Colonial Pipeline managed its ransomware attack

June 7, 2021 Kaspersky Guest Blog Comments Off on How Colonial Pipeline managed its ransomware attack
Should you contact authorities about ransomware? Kaspersky offers some thoughts in the wake of the Coastal Pipeline attack.