ESET has been in the MSP space for a while, but is now making a push to increase their presence there. They also indicated that they will shortly be releasing their first offering specifically built for the cloud.
SOCSoter, which has over a hundred channel partners reselling their offering, doesn’t yet have any partners in Canada, but will be at the ASCII show in Toronto later this month looking to change that.
Digital signage is now a mature IT market, but for D&H Canada, it is hotter than ever. They expect recent momentum in the space to be increased by a new relationship with Atlona, which just signed with D&H in the U.S., and will be in Canada before the end of the year.
Other enhancements include a new unified dashboard and unified search feature for all 40 applications in Zoho One, as well as the 40th app – Backstage – an event management solution that is also sold separately.
FireEye has spent the last two years developing its own machine learning engine, which now complements signature, behaviour-based and intelligence-based engines in their endpoint offering.
SonicWall has added a direct touch to their midmarket strategy, within the context of their 100 per cent channel go-to-market.
Hornetsecurity is targeting the SMB space in North America, emphasizing their ability to build and maintain strong relationships with these smaller customers. They have signed Contronex to handle their distribution in both the U.S. and Canada.
The integration between Looker and BigQuery ML unites all elements of data scientist workflows, so they can do all their work without having to Leave Looker.
OneLogin, which has been focused more on cloud identity management for SMBs, has gotten more aggressive in the enterprise with the differentiating hybrid capabilities from its introduction of OneLogic Access earlier this year.
Open source email and collaboration platform Zimbra has revitalized itself in recent years, to move forward despite threatening clouds in the environment.
SandBlast Mobile 3.0 extends the parameters of smartphone protection by adding the ability to prevent threats as well as detect them, while the new 23900 security gateway adds a new very high end data centre appliance for Check Point customers who don’t need the scalability of a chassis.
Grant Wernick, the CEO and co-founder of Insight Engines, says that their product revolutionizes log store search and helps companies address the scarcity and cost of data scientists by letting English majors do the same job.
Atlona, which has been moving into the IT side of the AV space because of the convergence trends in the industry, is attending their first CompTIA ChannelCon event to talk with IT channel partners, get their take on convergence, and learn what the IT channel wants in an AV solution.
The two new devices, the Toughbook T1 and the L1, with the latter designed for landscape viewing, become Panasonic offerings for lesser demanding rugged environments. The N1, their offering above the new devices in the market, has been enhanced.
While anti-ransomware measures to date have largely focused on trying to keep it out, Radar focuses on quickly assessing the damage and then recovering from it as quickly as possible.
The new program significantly improves partner enablement, while looking to double down with key go-to-market partners and encourage joint solutions with SnapLogic Technology Partners. SnapLogic also wants to recruit some more partners in Canada.
Druva bought CloudRanger to respond to customer requests to be able to better handle cloud workloads on AWS, and executed the integration quickly because both companies were cloud-native with identical vertical stacks.
At their Google Cloud Next 2018 event, in addition to their new platform, Google announced GKE On-Prem, a version of Google’s Google Kubernetes Engine for container management. They also announced Istio 1.0 is now available for production deployments, and the first service for it.
ICEBERG, a startup, was still in the direct selling stage and selling to larger companies, but Gigamon will fully open the SaaS offering up to partners, including MSP partners to take this lower in the market.
HYCU brought a rudimentary channel program with them when they spun out of Comtrade Software earlier this year, but now they have essentially remade it, making changes to strongly align with what Nutanix is doing, and adding the kind of features channel partners expect.
