Intel Path to Cloud
Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud: What’s the difference?
Find out the answer from Intel’s IT team experts in this quick excerpt from the third video in Intel’s Path to Cloud series.
Month: April 2022
N-able Sponsored Content
Backup frequency: The Goldilocks zone for ransomware readiness
With MSPs increasingly targeted by cybercriminals, regular backups are critical to protecting both service providers and their customers. Carrie Reber explains.
Data Management
Ivanti enhances true convergence story with three new modules on Ivanti Neurons Platform
Ivanti Neurons Patch for Microsoft Endpoint Manager makes customers aware of the vulnerabilities in the Microsoft product, many of which Microsoft itself does not list, as well as how to reduce threats like ransomware through them. Ivanti Neurons for Risk-Based Vulnerability Management improves measurement, prioritization and control of cybersecurity risk, while the Digital Experience score is an important add that improves digital employee experiences.
Intel vPro Sponsored Content
What’s new: A platform built for today’s businesses
Take a look at the brand new 12th Gen Intel® vPro® Platform and the features built for IT professionals.
Channel Programs
Channel-centric Canadian startup Cavelo has announced both their first channel program and the hire of their first channel leader
Waterloo-based Cavelo makes a platform which assesses broad aspects of data management and regulatory reporting requirements, and, unusually for their space, is focused on the SMB and SME rather than the enterprise, and concentrates on going to market through partners.
Barracuda MSP Sponsored Content
Bad bots, whatcha gonna do?
Application security tips and best practices for defending against bot-based security threats from Barracuda MSP’s Nathan Bradbury
Artificial Intelligence
Avaya introduces no-code Avaya Cloud Virtual Agents to their OneCloud Experience Platform
No-code Avaya Virtual Agents make it easy for organizations to both acquire and deploy virtual agents, which improve the customer user experience, something which grades out poorly in customer surveys.
N-able Sponsored Content
Four reasons why your MSP needs to have a business roadmap
As the saying goes: If you’re not planning, then you’re planning to fail. In this blog, Stefanie Hammond looks at why business roadmaps are more important than ever to MSPs.
Avaya Sponsored Content
Trusted Identity for the omni-channel healthcare experience
Avaya Canada’s Allan Mendelsohn offers some thoughts on identity-centred security and how it can help with some of the biggest problems in healthcare IT today in this guest blog.
Security
Trend Micro launches first unified cybersecurity platform with Trend Micro One
Trend Micro’s unified new platform enables a risk management cycle around everything, and starts with nine third party vendors who are also on the platform.
Backup
Datto to remain separately run organization if acquisition by Kaseya goes through
Kaseya has historically kept acquired companies as independent entities within Kaseya, but Datto is now worth more than Kaseya, and is a direct competitor as opposed to a maker of complementary solutions. Nevertheless, the plan is for Kaseya to remain separately run, just like those past acquisitions.
Artificial Intelligence
Dell Technologies launches new retail edge solutions
Following up on last fall’s edge releases, which were more about manufacturing, Dell Technologies is launching a series of new edge solutions, most of which have a strong retail focus.
Cloud
HP integrates newly acquired Teradici technology to create HP Anyware for digital workspaces
The new solution, now available in beta, integrates Teradici CAS and HP ZCentral Remote Boost into a new HP Anywhere offering that will provide secure access to digital workspaces from any mix of infrastructure to any device.
Hardware
Dell hardware sales through partners help propel record setting Q4 and 2021
Dell’s hardware business benefited greatly from organizations, at this stage of their tech rebuild, needing to refresh a hardware base in data centres that was at least two years old, and generally older than that.
Cloud
Pax8, AWS sign distribution deal to bring AWS into Pax8 solutions
For the time being, the deal is only in North America and will not be expanded soon into the other big public clouds, even through Pax8 has a long-standing and close relationship with Microsoft.
Security
Barracuda expects acquisition by private equity firm KKR will drive growth
While Barracuda’s acquisition in 2013 by Thoma Bravo helped the company a lot in transforming itself into a cloud-first company with a modern comprehensive portfolio, they think KKR is even better situated to Barracuda’s current stage of the growth cycle.
Channel Programs
LiveVox continues to build out fledgling channel strategy with launch of ACTivate channel program
While LiveVox has been around for years, their channel is really less than a year old, and the new partner program is designed both to attract quality new partners and to get new and existing partners up to speed.
Epson Sponsored Content
A look at the state of the market for scanning and document management
Epson’s Tim Anderson joins us on the podcast to discuss the impact the pandemic has had on the market for scanners, how Epson innovates, and where partners can add value in document management solutions.
Channel Programs
Lightbits brings in Charla Bunton-Johnson to drive channel-first strategy for software-defined NVMe pioneer
The channel is relatively new in Lightbits’ strategy, but the new channel leader was brought in to scale growth in accordance with what has become a channel-first strategy.
Channel Programs
Cloud communications provider Nextiva reworks channel program to improve enablement
The program is scheduled to be fully rolled out by the time Nextiva has a set of major project launches late in the year, and will complement a planned international expansion, which includes Canada.