While Webroot has updated their course content and made it easier for MSPs to construct phishing lure pages, the major attraction here is likely a new Client Breach Report that the MSP can use as a pre-sales tool.
Office 365 itself is a notoriously low margin offering, and adding Pickit to it, in what should be a low-touch transaction, can double those margins.
HPE looks to bring partners more closely into HPE’s own technical communities, introduce a broader type of solution focused credentialing system, and reward both individual techs and partner companies for achievements.
Datrium moves from their original licensing model to a new framework designed to provide customers with maximum portability and flexibility.
The enhanced integrations, along with IT Glue’s new Open Platform Manifesto, are both designed to reassure the market that despite the company’s acquisition by Kaseya late last year, nothing has changed with respect to their commitment to working with all the PSA players in the industry, notwithstanding their being competitors of Kaseya.
Enhancements include new failback recovery capabilities, and recovery for cloud workloads with cross-region/account support.
Dell has announced the appointment of Andre Valiquette as the new Canadian Channel Leader. He succeeds Deanna Thomson, whose retirement was announced last month.
Fahrbach also said that in comparison with the sales position held by his predecessor, Rodolpho Cardenuto, as SAP’s top channel official, he represents the entire global partner organization, and brings it to a higher level of importance within the company.
U.K.-based StarLeaf, which sells entirely through channel partners, has some in the U.S. and Canada, but is not well known in North America overall, and is hoping that this new device increases their exposure here.
Konica Minolta’s Workplace Hub has been on the market for over a year, but the company thinks that what it sees as a ‘next-gen’ product is now ready for prime time with their dealer channel, and so they featured it heavily at their Dealer Conference.
Jim Ortbals is looking to design a channel system that both encourages collaborative relationships between cloud and traditional partners, and effectively assesses and values the contributions made by each to a joint sale. The complicating factor is that he is aware of no one else who has done this effectively to date.
WhiteHat will operate as an independent subsidiary of NTT Security and retain both its name and its brand. They provide NTT with a capability it did not have in-house before at all, while receiving access to NTT’s broader array of security services. Initial feedback from partners at the RSA event was highly positive.
Fahrbach’s new position is a hybrid of the work he had already been doing and the large scope of the role formerly filled by Rodolpho Cardenuto, who recently left SAP.
The new Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure will go to market through a select number of channel partners, building on the channel focus of the recent VSP Pro solutions.
Konica Minolta also provided an update on the state of the Canadian services business, where IT Weapons was acquired three years ago to serve as a bridgehead into the Canadian market.
Something old was new again at the Konica Minolta 2019 Dealer Conference, as the company emphasized how and why dealers need to update their business to deal with digital transformation – which has been a recurring theme at the event in recent years
For channel partners, the immediate plus here is a massively dense NVMe device, which can be sold on the basis of those capacity and power features, even if a customer doesn’t need the devices’ computational storage capabilities today.
The new capability for intelligent detection of anomalous behavior fills what had been a void in the Cylance endpoint offering – one that they have been working on addressing for an extended time.
Malwarebytes has managed its MSP partners as resellers until now, but as that segment of the market grows, the company will be rolling out a program specifically designed for MSPs following a successful pilot in Australia.
Avast adds a new capability to its CloudCare platform that provides turnkey and policy-based protection against malicious websites, downloads, and locations.
