Month: May 2022

Channel Programs

Digital performance management vendor Apica introduces first channel program as part of push to expand partner sales

May 18, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Digital performance management vendor Apica introduces first channel program as part of push to expand partner sales
Apica has had a small channel that has accounted for a small percentage of their sales, but while the expanded channel they want will still be relatively small, they want it to bring in significantly more business.

Data Management

Major enhancements to Portworx portfolio add new Kubernetes Database-as-a Service platform plus new services

May 18, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Major enhancements to Portworx portfolio add new Kubernetes Database-as-a Service platform plus new services
This major series of enhancements to Pure Storage’s Kubernetes platform expands the number of use cases in which it can be deployed, and makes it easier to deploy it.

Internet of Things

Barracuda expands cloud-native SASE platform beyond Azure to protect hybrid cloud deployments

May 17, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda expands cloud-native SASE platform beyond Azure to protect hybrid cloud deployments
Barracuda is also announcing a series of new integrations with OT vendors around industrial IoT, as well as new capabilities for its Barracuda Cloud Application offering.

Security

Intel gears up confidential computing and prep for quantum computing security with Project Amber

May 16, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intel gears up confidential computing and prep for quantum computing security with Project Amber
Greg Lavender, who is Intel’s CTO, among other things, laid out the company’s technical road map on the second day of the Intel Vision event, highlighting the newly announced Project Amber, and emphasizing several times that the time to begin working on security around quantum computing, a futures project, is right now.

Avaya Sponsored Content

Helping businesses gain the advantage of Total Experience

May 12, 2022 Paul Lang, Head of Contact Center Solutions Marketing, Avaya Comments Off on Helping businesses gain the advantage of Total Experience
How do your customers stack up in terms of the increasingly popular metric of Total Experience? Avaya’s Paul Lang explains Total Experience and what you can do to help your customers in this guest blog.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup BalkanID launches AI-powered Identity Governance and Administration solution

May 12, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Startup BalkanID launches AI-powered Identity Governance and Administration solution
BalkanID will start out focused on the mid-market but plans to expand that, as they further develop their solution from automated IGA to fully automated telemetry.

Fortinet Sponsored Content

The opportunity in selling Zero Trust for partners

May 11, 2022 Sean Campbell, director, Canadian Channels, Fortinet Comments Off on The opportunity in selling Zero Trust for partners
Fortinet Canada channel chief Sean Campbell explores where partners can help customers on their “zero trust journey” and where to start in this guest blog.

Artificial Intelligence

Intel unveils new hardware, software and services at inaugural Intel Vision 2022 event

May 11, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intel unveils new hardware, software and services at inaugural Intel Vision 2022 event
Intel also provided updates on several important projects and other future items, which are still some distance on the horizon.

Hardware

Intel top brass discuss strategy going forward with media at Intel Vision

May 11, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intel top brass discuss strategy going forward with media at Intel Vision
Intel CEO Gelsinger and his lieutenants acknowledged that Intel had fallen off in execution in recent years, but has taken aggressive steps, including internal reorganization of the company and building out its supply chain, to make these non-issues going forward.

Security

Startup Sunday Security launches seed funding round with unusual take on protecting senior execs’ digital identities

May 11, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Startup Sunday Security launches seed funding round with unusual take on protecting senior execs’ digital identities
Sunday, whose name refers to the fact that it also protects you when you are not at work, provides senior executives, and eventually their families, with Personal Cybersecurity to head off new types of attacks that go beyond traditional company emails.