Month: February 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Sage extends presence in sports platforms with Sportable partnership

February 29, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sage extends presence in sports platforms with Sportable partnership
Following up on last year’s partnership with Major League Baseball, Sage is announcing a different type of sports partnership, with Sportable, a global data collection and analytics platform, which is designed to bring deeper, AI-led insights to major sports. 

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Acronis Sponsored Content

Essential KPI reports you need to become a data-driven MSP  

February 29, 2024 Gaidar Magdanurov Comments Off on Essential KPI reports you need to become a data-driven MSP  
In this guest blog, Gaidar Magdanurov, president at Acronis, offers his thoughts on the performance indicators MSPs should closely monitor to optimize their business.

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Artificial Intelligence

Sage looks to improve SMB skills around carbon reporting with extended AWS partnership

February 29, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sage looks to improve SMB skills around carbon reporting with extended AWS partnership
The new strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to enable AI-powered solutions for SMBs includes a launch of Sage Earth on the AWS Marketplace will kick off in a few weeks in the UK and Ireland, but other geos, including North America, will have a bit of a wait – like 18 months.

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Artificial Intelligence

Intel looks to accelerate AI at the edge with new Edge Platform

February 28, 2024 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Intel looks to accelerate AI at the edge with new Edge Platform
Intel’s new Edge Platform offers an easier path to introducing, running, and managing AI applications at the edge, and the company stresses it’s looking to build an open edge ecosystem.

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ESET Sponsored Content

Vulnerabilities in business VPNs under the spotlight

February 28, 2024 ESET Guest Blog Comments Off on Vulnerabilities in business VPNs under the spotlight
As adversaries increasingly set their sights on vulnerable enterprise VPN software to infiltrate corporate networks, concerns mount about VPNs themselves being a source of cyber risk.

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Artificial Intelligence

Sage enhances AI vision and portfolio with major announcements at Sage Transform

February 28, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sage enhances AI vision and portfolio with major announcements at Sage Transform
Sage emphasized that this year’s Transform is a very important one, because of key changes, particularly around AI, that will greatly improve customers’ lives and productivity.

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Artificial Intelligence

New Gen AI additions to PCs, and new Gen-AI based services highlight Dell MWC announcements

February 28, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Gen AI additions to PCs, and new Gen-AI based services highlight Dell MWC announcements
Dell Technologies is hardly alone this year at emphasizing its hardware-focused announcements at Mobile World Congress, but they think the broadness of their impacted portfolio and services will deliver an advantage.

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Artificial Intelligence

Sage makes key AI announcement at Sage Transform around Sage Copilot

February 28, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sage makes key AI announcement at Sage Transform around Sage Copilot
Sage Copilot is a new AI-based productivity assistant, whose AI has been specifically trained around accounting rules and best practices, and which is designed to help SMBs make better business decisions.

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Artificial Intelligence

Intel: AI-enabled PCs reframe selling around experiences, not specs

February 27, 2024 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Intel: AI-enabled PCs reframe selling around experiences, not specs
Additional flexibility from the debut of the NPU will improve PC efficiency and drive better user experience, the chipmaker says as it eyes a big PC refresh year.

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Barracuda MSP Sponsored Content

Five ways cybercriminals use AI to wreak havoc

February 27, 2024 Olesia Klevchuk, Product Marketing Director, Barracuda Comments Off on Five ways cybercriminals use AI to wreak havoc
With the advancements in generative artificial intelligence, cybercriminals have been handed a powerful new set of tools.

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Servers

Intel focuses on efficiency, AI wth upcoming Xeons

February 27, 2024 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Intel focuses on efficiency, AI wth upcoming Xeons
The chipmaker makes a case for massive numbers of efficiency cores to bring AI to the core of the 5G network.

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ESET Sponsored Content

Deepfakes in the global election year of 2024: A weapon of mass deception?

February 26, 2024 Phil Muncaster Comments Off on Deepfakes in the global election year of 2024: A weapon of mass deception?
As fabricated images, videos and audio clips of real people go mainstream, the prospect of a firehose of AI-powered disinformation is a cause for mounting concern. Find out more in this ESET guest blog.

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Artificial Intelligence

Intel lays out foundry vision and announces Intel Foundry

February 26, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intel lays out foundry vision and announces Intel Foundry
Intel CEO announced the creation of Intel Foundry, which with Intel Products now becomes two symbiotic parts of Intel, and also announced a new partnership with Arm, which Intel said is now their most important.

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Artificial Intelligence

Prosimo strengthens multi-cloud network stack with Generative AI and Nebula AIOps for Multi-Cloud Networking

February 22, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Prosimo strengthens multi-cloud network stack with Generative AI and Nebula AIOps for Multi-Cloud Networking
Prosimo’s AI Suite for Multi-Cloud Networking closely resembles their core product that the startup has sold the last few years, Multi-Cloud Networking for AI ,has been beefed up with the addition of Generative AI, while the other suite component, Nebula AIOps for Multi-Cloud Networking, is new with this release.

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Artificial Intelligence

Infoblox strengthens DNA capability of BloxOne Threat Defense with new SOC Insights solution

February 20, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Infoblox strengthens DNA capability of BloxOne Threat Defense with new SOC Insights solution
SecOps Insights extends DNS capability to the InfoBloxThreat Defense platform, a move that InfoBlox says has strong appeal to customers and will make it easier for partners to keep them for life.

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No Picture
Channel Programs

Password Manager vendor 1Password to build out channel with new global partner program

February 16, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Password Manager vendor 1Password to build out channel with new global partner program
Toronto-based 1Password has more than 100,000 customers, including 25% of the Fortune 500, but have done this with a minor channel presence, so they are building a channel program out, which will include support for MSPs for the first time.

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Storage

VMware end to free ESXi opens up new options from spurned customers and partners

February 15, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on VMware end to free ESXi opens up new options from spurned customers and partners
While these major changes are not good news for developers and SMBs, there are still options, from the cloud to smaller hypervisor vendors like Proxmox, which has an open source hypervisor that led storage vendor 45Drives to partner with them.

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Artificial Intelligence

D&H Distributing seeing strong new opportunities in evolving tech economy

February 13, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on D&H Distributing seeing strong new opportunities in evolving tech economy
Rapidly growing opportunities in AI are part of the reason for success in the last year and hope in the next, but more traditional areas like SMB and MSPs have also been doing well.

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Channel Programs

Nutanix lays out strategy to take advantage of partners’ Broadcom Blues

February 12, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix lays out strategy to take advantage of partners’ Broadcom Blues
The details on what will clearly be massive change from Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware have been gradually being made public, and Nutanix is one of the VMware competitors who see opportunities created by channel disruption.

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Managed Services

SonicWall moves into MDR market with 24/7 SOC

February 12, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on SonicWall moves into MDR market with 24/7 SOC
SonicWall had an EDR solution before, which is now part of the MDR solution, with the MDR coming primarily through the acquisition three months ago of MMSP solutions provider Solutions Granted Inc

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