In addition to their Tintri Global Center 4.0 release, Tintri by DDN announces new staff and resource additions, as they continue their rebuild from the collapse that preceded their being purchased by DDN in September.
A new Master Agent agreement with TradeWinds Brokerage establishes Mitel’s first Master Agent in ANZ, where their UCaaS business is already strong. It leverages a U.S. relationship which is part of a growing Master Agent channel in that market.
Other features that expand the release theme of enhancing the platform’s usability for developers include the addition of additional open capabilities, and newly announced free certifications.
The ending of the joint venture between Sennheiser and William Demant, which will see the Sennheiser unified communications business transition to William Demant on January 1 2020, means a much more aggressive growth strategy, and new VP Jim Fairweather said that planning has already begun, which includes a more focused channel strategy.
The new DaaS service differs from the leasing option in that Avaya retains control of the device, which some customers like because it reduces their risk. It also allows them to upgrade to a higher priced device with no penalty.
Other enhancements reflect top priority being given to mobile optimization and to bringing more of a consumer software experience into FP&A software.
Avaya believes its solution provider channel will also have some interest in the store, which offers Avaya’s UC and CC as-a-service options. They also confirmed that this online store is not a direct play.
Jabra resellers get access to a wireless earbud headset that has appeal to consumer product users, but at a much higher quality that is certified for Skype for Business, and which can spare them a long series of support issues compared to the kind of products in this form factor that have been available until now.
Martello will develop a solution for the BlackBerry QNX smart car environment that ensures network performance management will work well in the challenging environment of an automobile travelling at speed.
Being able to identify the people in an organization most likely to be attacked – who are often not the obvious C level execs – provides a compelling new value proposition that Proofpoint is highlighting as an industry-first.
Lenovo is the last major infrastructure vendor to join the roster of Cumulus partners. They will offer three ThinkSystem RackSwitch models with support for Cumulus Linux out of the gate, with more coming in 2019.
Kemp makes enhancements that leverage the load balancer’s position to provide much deeper analytics about applications, including the ability to assess application health and pre-emptively remediate problems.
Curran will be replaced on an interim basis by Kavita May, the GTDC’s senior vice president of planning and operations.
Aparavi is pushing hard into the MSP space with their SaaS platform, which they are positioning around data management, rather than purely as intelligent archiving.
Pivot3 enhances its security capabilities to provide the same native policy-based management for data at-rest that it has already been providing for performance and for data protection.
ShareInsights 3.0 is the first cloud-native version of the platform, which opens up AWS analytics to more users by abstracting the entire AWS analytics stack.
The new managed service, operated by Elastifile, but with a Google UI and Google billing of the customer, is the product of a deep collaboration between the two companies.
Nutanix broadens the server platforms on which its software is available with a new deal with Intel, which will see authorized Nutanix partners be able to brand and personalize the Intel server block platforms.
Nutanix implemented its new partner program, which emphasizes partner investments in Nutanix over revenues this summer, and now based on feedback is making their first set of tweaks.
SAP believes it can provide a differentiated value in the cloud compared to other vendors, and with IDC saying that partners who create and sell their own software in the Cloud will projected by 24 per cent over the next five years, SAP is focusing on that as an area of opportunity.
