Month: February 2024

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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