FinancialForce’s CEO also noted that the company has reinvigorated its channel focus in the last year, which is playing a role in accelerating their momentum.
Syntax, an enterprise cloud ERP solutions provider, was primarily an Oracle specialist before a 2019 acquisition gave them a strong SAP presence in Europe and Asia, and now with the acquisition of Illumiti, whose business is mainly in the U.S. and Canada, they make a similar upgrade to their North American capabilities.
Nerdio’s newer and more advanced platform will be well suited for MSPs with more experience in Azure Virtual Desktop, who want more flexible deployment options.
HPE’s CEO discussed how the new announcements around HPE Lighthouse, Project Aurora, Silicon on-Demand and compute as-a-service drives HPE’s vision forward, and also commented on their just announced acquisition of DeterminedAI.
The new CRU integrates existing ConnectWise assets drawn from multiple acquisitions in a more formal and comprehensive form than before, and includes a threat intelligence feed.
The third annual Vanson Bourne study prepared for ConnectWise finds that SMBs would pay a third more for an IT service provider who can offer the ‘right’ solution, but that many MSPs still find it hard to communicate what the SMB needs to hear.
The component of the news likely to turn the most head is the new AOS 10, which brings together WLAN and SD-Branch within a single operating system.
HPE kicked off its Discover event with a flurry of announcements around HPE GreenLake, including GreenLake Lighthouse, Project Aurora, Silicon-on-Demand, a new Compute Cloud Console – and eight new services.
While Splunk started out as an on-prem company, they see the cloud as the future, and while customers aren’t being forced to move to the new cloud, it does become Splunk’s primary security offering.
Microsoft gets a huge numbers of downloads for SQL Server containers, but its stateful containers have issues with stateless Kubernetes and kept them in DevTest environments. DxE for Containers was built to change that.
The addition of the ability for the user to set different data management policies and activities for separate geos and branches is done through a single dashboard, which also facilitates even stronger analytics capabilities.
Check Point’s messaging around protection of any user on any device using any application is strengthened by expansion of workload protection, to provide stronger ability to deliver that using any application.
Avanan sold its email suites direct until 2019, but has been moving to a 100% channel model, and is looking to its new partner program to accelerate that shift.
Dell’s global channel chief Rola Dagher talked with ChannelBuzz about the state of the Dell channel today, and the priorities for the rest of the year ahead.
The main feature of the new program is a new partner portal, which is integrated with Salesforce and provides much quicker access to materials and response times from ViewSonic than was the case in the past.
Channel veteran Bill Cordero takes over channel leadership at StorONE, as the company looks to expand its new channel with the aid of a newly-designed channel program.
Two versions of the new AI and machine learning-heavy servers for edge environments were announced, a balanced commercial version and a more rugged military spec version, but different versions for more specific use cases are likely going forward.
Cloud distributor Sherweb has announced another new vendor partnership which will make a third-party solution available through Sherweb to their MSP partners. It is LogMeIn’s LastPass password management solution, which offers both single sign-on and multi-factor authentication.
Datto unveils a virtual version of their data protection software that is easier for partners to use, and with the Azure cloud version now in beta, expect to soon have the virtual and cloud deployment options together with their hardware, all manageable through the same pane of glass.
Citrix’s recent introduction of Elite Force Academy, designed to impart ongoing solution selling skills, is part of the company’s strategy to modernize partner skillsets for Citrix Workspace and the cloud.
