The optimism reflects an environment today where businesses that have survived the turmoil of the last several years see new opportunities from the impact of Generative AI within traditional collaboration systems.
The number of SaaS applications that can be integrated is still limited however, because many apps lack the necessary security logs, so the company has also initiated an industry-wide “I want my SaaS alerts” campaign to encourage software vendors to include security log data in their APIs.
Trend Companion helps security analysts understand the meaning of alerts faster to better triage them, which is of critical importance in an environment where minutes matter.
HPE emphasized that Generative AI requires an architecture which is fundamentally different and more powerful than cloud-native architecture, and they unveiled it, along with related AI-native offerings.
The new joint solution is designed as a turnkey solution for enterprises who don’t want to develop their own AI models.
Lumu, which illuminates threats and isolates confirmed instances of compromise on the network, launched an MSP version of their platform in 2021, and now has introduced a free version supporting a limited number of customers and endpoints.
Blancco’s channel leadership role under Elder has been expanded to include technology partners and more control of OEM relationships.
Moovila showed off their automated Perfect Project solution at the recent IT Nation Connect event, offering MSPs a project management solution that overcomes the traditional limitations of such solutions that require significant human intervention.
Cavelo makes a platform that provides attack surface management technology for MSPs to identify and protect sensitive data.
Guardz has also just added a new Growth Hub for MSPs, which gives them multiple new cybersecurity tools aimed at small business customers.
Cloudli expects the unified brand will drive channel growth by making it easier to market and sell one branded solution rather than two.
The updates to the HYCU R-Cloud data protection program involve new instant data and configuration restores for multiple AWS services, including Amazon Aurora, AWS IAM, Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda.
The DMARC email protocol, highly effective against spoofing, will be implemented by big service providers in February, and with very few MSPs using it today, EasyDMARC sees it as a great opportunity for MSPs, so much so that they are ramping up MSP presence in their Go-to-Market model.
This integration, the first of several Schneider Electric has planned, was soft launched in the spring, but the real push to get partners to see its value came at the recent IT Nation event.
ConnectWise thinks adding ConnectWise RPA to Asio will be a really big deal, although they also announced a new Asio workflow automation capability, and 18 new Asio services.
Sidekick is a bot that is currently available for ConnectWise PSA, although the number of solutions supported will expand over time, providing much stronger AI capabilities than ConnectWise was able to offer before.
ConnectWise also announced that the Automation Nation event will return to the ConnectWise calendar in early 2024.
IT by Design is a Master MSP that changed their focus to be around coaching and training, dealing with MSP-specific leadership issues and how to address them effectively for both transformational and transactional leaders.
Both companies see Cork’s focus on loss control when a cyberattack takes place as highly complementary to Liongard’s Configuration Change Detection and Response services, and they are offering a discount to MSPs who sell both solutions.
The new architecture disaggregates the storage from the compute, and is a key factor in both the much lower pricing and the greatly increased scalability.
