Mitel has been selling a wholesale private cloud offering in the U.K., and with this announcement, that model both goes global and onto the Google Cloud.
The Toronto startup is the worldwide licensee to commercialize the MIOTY network protocol, which has scalability and signal interpretation advantages over WiFi. BehrTech is selling this entirely through channel partners.
The Talend Data Trust Score provides built-in trust scores for specific data, which comes from a new Data Inventory application, and allows the user to press a button to fix many data issues.
Splunk Data Stream Processor, Machine Learning Toolkit and Splunk Connected Experience get major updates, while Splunk reiterates how their Google partnership and new Remote Work Insights App fit into their strategy.
The new logo partner benefit complements an existing spiff for individual salespeople.
A new contact management layer ties together chats in different channels into a single experience, keeping track of each user and allowing them to switch between channels.
LogicMonitor has intensified its channel focus since Mark Banfield joined the company as CRO from Datto 18 months ago.
Secureworks has worked with channel partners before, but informally in the field. Their first formal channel program is a single-tier one designed explicitly to be very easy for partners to use.
BlackBerry has introduced four suites, which they are encouraging partners to position over the existing standalone offers from both BlackBerry UEM and Cylance.
Barracuda’s third annual snapshot of the industry finds some positive trends, particularly around the broadening of MSP security offerings, but MSPs still need to do more to keep pace with the challenges and opportunities of today’s unprecedented environment.
Siemplify has made multiple changes to simplify the Go-to-Market model, but the headline here is margin protection up to a 65% discount level.
Florida-based MSSP CyberPeak is the newest managed services partner for Respond, which initially targeted enterprises when they came to market last summer, but has since added a strong channel emphasis.
AppDynamics integrated strategy and solution set with Cisco had been doing well since they were acquired, but the pandemic has seen a surge of interest, to which the company and its channel partners are responding.
While the 2nd generation AMD EPYC processors contribute new efficiencies, the big breakthrough here is the new Lenovo servers delivering dual socket performance with a single socket, as well as density and versatility enhancements.
SlashNext has rebooted their business model from appliance-centric to the cloud, and their differentiation is their attention to phishing threats in other mediums than email.
Enterprise SONiC Distribution by Dell Technologies adds enterprise features and support to the SONiC open source project, which Microsoft has driven around Azure, and which has been focused on hyperscaler needs.
Volterra’s platform provides distributed cloud services for the enterprise, but with VoltShare they are leveraging its capabilities to enhance existing collaboration tools with security that requires no passwords or public keys. It’s being sold on a freemium model with a paid enterprise version, and is particularly aimed at the Work From Home market.
Edge-focused Scale isn’t charging into the data centre market here, but rather responding to customer requests for an offering that can handle use cases like high density VDI deployments.
Liongard has added $17 million in new funds, bringing them to $23 million in the last three years, with much of the investment going into engineering and roadmap plans.
The big news at the event was a new partnership with Microsoft to add two new services around Enterprise tiers to Azure Cache for Redis, but the overarching message was users who use Redis for caching should consider it for databases too.
