The portfolio has been reorganized into three components: Avaya OneCloud CCaaS; Avaya OneCloud UCaaS; Avaya OneCloud CPaaS.
Knowledge Now, the free global threat intelligence tool, is designed to provide actionable intelligence, while Attack Surface Intelligence provides a hacker’s view of the customer’s environment, and indicating problem areas and how to fix them.
Patrick Sweeney, who took over as CEO in April, talks with ChannelBuzz about the program’s philosophy, goals, and features like a pay-for-performance billing option to get into accounts with an incumbent.
The new resources include two net new Alliance Director positions, which are being filled by Nisa Spyker, who comes from Cisco and Matt Biehler, who has had partner management roles at Bluecore and Datadog.
Zoho BackToWork consists of six related modules, with a key one being an Employee Wellness module to define and score individuals, and use those scores to manage access and restrict individuals with failing scores from coming to work.
Pax8 is emphasizing that not only will Liongard improve the efficiency of IT documentation software, but their recent expansion of their platform capability complements other adjacent technologies, including providing integrated alerting.
Digital Defense adds a formal MSP tier for the first time, with the conviction that this is where their market is headed, and that if they do it right, it will provide them with major advantages.
There is a way for marketplace participants to monetize their submissions, but that’s not the primary function of this marketplace.
The big news is the establishment of a four-tier Delivery Approved program, to provide more support for delivery-focused partners with consulting practices
More metrics which help identity and remedy issues in home environments have been added, and enhancements have been made to process optimization, dashboarders and the API builder. New vendor integrations have been added – with more on the way.
The new enhancements, upgrading Pivot3’s Intelligence Engine to include both a system-level upgrade orchestration and a health and a best practices analyzer, are targeted at the video security market that makes up much of Pivot3’a business.
Most MSPs have chosen not to become involved in the UCaaS market, something Pax8 is trying to change, in the belief that their ecosystem can provide MSPs with more visibility than they have had from working directly with these vendors.
Okta’s partner report is a follow-up to an earlier one done with Okta customers, and the trends are essentially the same.
Sonrai uses workflow and role-based swimlanes to address identity and workload-related issues by automatically routing actions to cloud, security, audit or DevOps teams, or deploy remediation bots to address the issue, with the customer being able to determine how they want things handled.
The new Dynamic Edge Protection Suite consists of two solutions, which bundles long-standing offerings into converged ones which are delivered as a service that are easy to administer and easy for home users to set up securely.
Naveego supplements its Master Data Management capabilities with broader data integration ones that make Naveego a complete data integration solution and let them get in front of customers they missed in the past.
The news involves reworking Commvault Data Protection and Commvault Backup & Recovery into separate products with a suite option, bringing Hedvig technology into HyperScale, expanding Hedvig support for Kubernetes, further encouraging subscription pricing, and positioning the Metallic SaaS offering to go upmarket and address the enterprise as well as the midmarket.
The new portal adds many features, like customized personas, which haven’t been in a Lenovo partner portal previously, and the company is confident the portal tools will build on good momentum of recent months.
Unsurprisingly, cybercriminals have evolved their tactics to better exploit the home-based work environments most organizations have moved to during the pandemic. The result has been changes like more (and more expensive) ransomware, increasing targeting of Microsoft Office files by cybercriminals, and increased use of non-standard ports for attacks.
Harness formalized a multi-tier partner program a year ago, which now includes close to 40 partners. Over the next six months, they will implement a broader training and certification program, deploy additional technical and sales resources, and roll out a Partner Solutions Lead Program.
