The new offering adds an Opinionated AI stack and related services to Nutanix’s infrastructure and storage stacks, and the company believes it will find a good reception from the SMB to the enterprise.
While Mitel’s channel has recently gone through some structural changes, the focuses, including an emphasis on Customer Lifecycle Management, have remained consistent, and Mitel is doubling down in those areas.
AppDirect makes another significant deal, leveraging their omnichannel Go-to-Market capabilities to bring another significant player onboard, and expand the solutions available to their technology advisor channel to sell.
Snow, which has been in the visibility and software asset management market going back into the last century, was content with their existing partner program, but thought a next-gen one would better equip partners for dealing with the challenges of today’s IT environments.
The VAST DataStore, VAST DataBase and DataBase Engine combine to deliver on VAST’s long term plan of utilizing their storage technology for deep learning as well.
Last fall NetApp announced its new program, which they term an extension of the previous Unified Partner Program rather than a major overhaul of it, and after giving partners a suitable time to prepare for the new program, it is now operational.
Fortify, which is now part of Saas Alerts’ Manage module, lets MSPs improve their customers’ Microsoft secure scores and overall security posture, and saves them much time by allowing hordes of clients to properly configure their systems with a single click.
The new solutions involve a joint Generative AI validated design and Dell Professional Services in collaboration with NVIDIA, all of which are also available through channel partners.
Splunk made multiple product announcements at their customer event, but the upgrades to their SIEM and SOAR platform deliver on their focus around resilience, and will likely impact the most customers.
At Splunk’s Global Partner Summit Monday, the company made several announcements of special relevance to partners, including OT-focused Splunk Edge Hub, the launch of Splunk on Azure Marketplace, and a major extension of their partnership with SAP.
The new Connect with Confluent program is designed for ISVs, one of the three partner groups Confluent works with, with CSPs and SIs/resellers having very different management frameworks of their own.
Distributor D&H and cybersecurity vendor ESET have similarly aligned strategies in which they are moving upmarket from their longtime bases in the SMB.