The new APN Global Startup program is aimed at ISV partners, as are changes to Marketplace policies. The new competencies impact both consulting and ISV partners.
Doug Yeum, who is at his first Re:invent as global channel chief talked with ChannelBuzz about his objectives in his new role, which reflect the fact he is not from a traditional channel background.
Cyberhaven also announced the close of their Series A funding round for what they term the industry’s first Data Behavior Analytics solution. While they are still in proof-of-concept stage, most of their sales go through channel partners.
Komprise has been able to move data to the cloud before now, but this is their first cloud native offering. Going forward, the plan, in fairly short order, is to get similar offerings available for the other big cloud providers
In what is likely one of the longest [but most interesting] stories ever to appear in ChannelBuzz, AWS CEO Andy Jassy outlines the dozens of announcements made so far at Re:Invent.
AWS-focused CloudRanger only sold direct before their acquisition, but now sell through Druva partners as well, and believes the changes will increase partners’ ability to sell to larger customers.
AWS-focused startup Clumio ramps up their support of the platform on which they were built, while also achieving recognition from AWS for their achievements.
The new orb is for the AWS Serverless Application Model that builds serverless applications for AWS Lambda, and meets a demand CircleCI says is now taking off.
Marcel Escorcio talks with ChannelBuzz about the major new additions to the Hitachi Vantara lineup announced at NEXT, and their implications for Canadian partners.
The deployment by Cradlepoint and channel partner KORE Wireless on Microsoft’s Azure IoT Central platform also shows that the IoT market has strong potential at its lower ends.
Devolutions has had password management capabilities before that were designed for small business users, but Password Hub was designed from scratch to provide an enterprise grade level of protection for up to 1000 users.
Carmine Cinerari, who has led Sharp Electronics Canada since 2008, talks with ChannelBuzz about the company’s re-emergence since its acquisition by Foxconn, and particularly how channel-focused changes in Canada have grown the business.
The number of BlackBerry UEM suites is being reduced from five to three, with both security and productivity elements being enhanced, and partner services opportunities increased.
Volterra’s solution handles operational and security issues involving multi-cloud and edge deployments, and while their initial focus is on very large customers, the channel is already playing a key role, which will expand going forward.
Garrett Jones, most recently with ForcePoint, has joined IronNet as their global channel chief, and he is building a channel program to roll out early in 2020.
Threat Stack gets much more proactive in its partner strategy, with a channel program that incorporates partners ranging from cybersecurity giant Optiv to specialized regional consultancies.
The Trend Micro Cloud One platform will have six services, which will roll out during 2020, and while only one, from the recent acquisition of Cloud Conformity is brand new, the other services are all being redesigned to work together natively in a multi-cloud environment.
WekaIO, which today is also announcing a first-place finish for performance in the IO-500 Challenge, is looking to its new program’s enablement resources to drive partner expansion in specific verticals.
The Fabric Automation software now comes embedded in two newly announced switches, and has been integrated into VMware, Microsoft and OpenStack orchestration software. This greatly reduces provisioning time, and improves the efficiency of operations.
Dell is trumpeting their 78 Net Promoter Score from Canadian partners as proof of their successful transition to a more regional coverage model. ChannelBuzz talked with two key Canadian channel partners about how today’s partnering model impacts their business.
