Year: 2023

Artificial Intelligence

ServiceNow, NVIDIA announce major partnership around generative AI

May 18, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on ServiceNow, NVIDIA announce major partnership around generative AI
ServiceNow will use NVIDIA AI Foundations cloud services and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform to develop new workflows using custom large language models, which use a customer’s own data, and which is much more accurate than gleaning it from the public domain.

Distribution

Ingram CEO: “We’re still in a relationship business”

May 18, 2023 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Ingram CEO: “We’re still in a relationship business”
Ingram’s Xvantage digital platform will help free up time for the distributor and its solution provider customers to do the high-value human parts of the business, Paul Bay says.

Avaya Sponsored Content

Three ways companies will double down on agent experience in 2023

May 17, 2023 Tammie Briscoe, Vice President of Customer Support, Avaya Comments Off on Three ways companies will double down on agent experience in 2023
In this guest blog, Avaya’s Tammie Briscoe shares thoughts on how management will think about contact centre agents, how they will optimize workforces, and where AI will play a role.

Security

Barracuda revamps SASE offering with SecureEdge solution

May 17, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda revamps SASE offering with SecureEdge solution
Barracuda’s new platform gives partners a strong network security offering that many Barracuda partners are not selling today.

Managed Services

Trend Micro’s SMB Sales Manager Tammy Allen confronts challenges in Canada

May 17, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Trend Micro’s SMB Sales Manager Tammy Allen confronts challenges in Canada
Trend Micro’s Canadian sales manager for SMBs and MSP discusses the challenges these kinds of partners face, and what Trend is doing to assist them.

Distribution

Ingram Micro folds Cloud Marketplace into Xvantage

May 17, 2023 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Ingram Micro folds Cloud Marketplace into Xvantage
As it brings its market for cloud offerings into its new digital twin platform, Ingram Micro boasts solution providers will be able to use one cart to provision customers with hardware, software and subscriptions.

No Picture
Security

Entro comes out of stealth with new method of guarding secrets

May 17, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Entro comes out of stealth with new method of guarding secrets
Entro’s platform continuously monitors and protects secrets and programmatic access to cloud services, something that is done today by scanners and vaults, but not very effectively.

Artificial Intelligence

HPE makes major enhancements to Ezmeral Data Fabric Software

May 16, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE makes major enhancements to Ezmeral Data Fabric Software
HPE has greatly broadened the open source tools for Ezmeral it provides customers and partners, which have largely come into the company through acquisitions.

Storage

New NetApp All-Flash SAN Array A-series highly new storage announcements

May 16, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on New NetApp All-Flash SAN Array A-series highly new storage announcements
The block storage-focused A-series announcement is complemented by others updating their StorageGrid software and adding a new StorageGrid appliance, the extension of their ONTAP One software, a new version of their ONTAP software, and a Ransomware Recovery Guarantee.

Channel Programs

Panasas reorients growth strategy around new product and channel strategies

May 12, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Panasas reorients growth strategy around new product and channel strategies
Panasas has substantially evolved their portfolio in the last few years to become much more of a software company, and is working on skilling up their channel further to sell the new solutions.