While the big change is the integration of the traditional Cloud Command and Metallic, most of the enhancements revolve around improved security, and enhanced partnerships with Microsoft and CyberArk were also announced.
Quest also makes some other enhancements to erwin Data Intelligence 13.0, which is the part of the erwin business that is much less well-known than their decades-old modelling solution, but they are hoping this release will change that.
CompTIA launched this new program in December, and FortMesa will help MSPs to take advantage of the growing compliance market by leading them through the assessment and certification processes.
An integration with Azure Active Directory, which will soon be followed by other identity options, provides users with a passwordless experience which is always on, so can’t be avoided by the end user.
Red Hat Summit typically consists of many deeply technical announcements, and the company did not disappoint in that respect, but they also made several important channel announcements and dropped a couple big hints about what is coming for partners next.
Morpheus makes a hybrid cloud management automation engine, and the development of infrastructure as-a-service offerings has led to them doing more business in the last six months than in the previous six years.
Project Harmony was the one new initiative specifically for partners announced at this year’s Dell Technologies World, within the context of a news-rich event which will create many other partner opportunities.
The new AI features are aimed at non-technical business users as well as technical ones, expanding the democratization of analytics to cover many more users.
Michael Dell thinks the commercial potential of Generative AI is greater than PCs and smartphones, although what the market seems to want from it, and what influencers think the market wants, are not the same thing.
Dell NativeEdge rethinks how the Dell edge portfolio will respond to customer needs going forward, with enterprise security, management and orchestration.
Project Fort Zero quietly got underway last year, and included a new Dell Zero Trust Center of Excellence, and a partner ecosystem announced in April to accelerate Zero Trust adoption, and based on this momentum, Dell intends to deliver a validated, advanced maturity Zero Trust solution within the next 12 months.
Dell makes some major announcements around their as-a-service portfolio, including bringing their Project Alpine previews from last year out as projects, in what they are saying brings the whole APEX strategy to fruition.
While the company had a relatively new partner program, it had been created to bring together the partners from four companies which had been brought together to for BeyondTrust, and the program has now been revamped to bring it up to state of the art standards.
The Zerto 10 update also requires customers to migrate to a new Linux-based software appliance, although Zerto is providing a tool to migrate it from Windows, while the HPE company also is announcing its Zerto 10 for Microsoft Azure offering.
While ThreatModeler has always had partners, new regulatory mandates and customer desires for more automation have led to the creation of a new partner program to support skilled partners whose design offerings and services complement ThreatModeler’s well.
HP Anyware’s remote connectivity software, which combines HP’s old ZCentral Remote Boost Software with Teradici CAS and its PCoIP technology HP acquired two and a half years ago, gets upgrades which address some key pain points.
Rajesh Ganesan, ManageEngine’s President, placed the company’s own substantial evolution within the evolution of the IT business as a whole, summing up how they got to where they are, and indicating where they are going.
ServiceNow will use NVIDIA AI Foundations cloud services and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform to develop new workflows using custom large language models, which use a customer’s own data, and which is much more accurate than gleaning it from the public domain.
Barracuda’s new platform gives partners a strong network security offering that many Barracuda partners are not selling today.
Trend Micro’s Canadian sales manager for SMBs and MSP discusses the challenges these kinds of partners face, and what Trend is doing to assist them.
