While Datrium DVX 4.0’s Cloud DVX backup and recovery service and Oracle RAC support have been made public before, other features, and two promotional offers, are being announced now for the first time.
Pax8 has converted its recommendations that MSPs practice bill-forward consumption-based billing into a console option for ConnectWise, and plans to offer the same for other RMM and PSA vendors.
The Qumulo P-series NVMe flash offering that was announced last fall now hits the market, initially targeted at the most demanding of use cases of workload-intensive sectors like media and entertainment.
The latest venture from serial entrepreneur Etay Bogner, Meta Networks is a next-gen VPN replacement targeted at the 250-1000 seat market. They are just beginning to develop a channel of resellers and MSSPs.
Elastifile, which already has a very close relationship with AWS, deepens their partnership with Google in a way that sees them become the first shared file system on the Google Cloud Launcher.
The JetStream technology, which leverages the VMware IO Filter API, has its roots in a company called FlashSoft, which was acquired by SanDisk, was part of the WD acquisition of SanDisk, and has now been spun out into a focused software company.
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Netwrix has revamped their North American channel program, beefing up education, enablement and support, and as a first step wants to develop a cadre of go-to partners who can do implementations and bring in business on their own.
Plantronics moves far beyond headsets by buying Polycom, which brings them into three additional businesses that are synergistic to their headset core.
The Canadian acquisition is the first step in an AppRiver strategy to expand its presence further beyond the U.S, but it’s not purely about acquiring customers, as some of Roaring Penguin’s anti-spam technology will be integrated into AppRiver’s own offering.
The new SAP initiative provides partners with packaged cloud solutions, with the partner adding their own IP. It also contains go-to-market and marketing initiatives to help the partners sell the packages.
The formalization of the community-based integration network Carbon Black has always had is tied to the development of their new Predictive Security Cloud.
Metaswitch has entered into vendor reseller agreements that go beyond technical integrations before, but this is their first one in the Composable Network Protocol part of their business.
The deal goes beyond the technology integration and makes Pulse Secure and Fortinet strategic partners. The go-to-market element will see the two companies proactively identify a cadre of strong mutual partners, and use them to drive the solution to market.
The features of the next-gen Pivot3 Acuity platform introduced last year are being migrated to the cloud, beginning with using its dynamic provisioning capability for backup and disaster recovery.
The need for reasonably priced storage to handle the large storage demand from 4K body cams being acquired by police departments is leading VARs who have not focused on these verticals to move into the space, and has also led StorageCraft to design a custom storage solution for it.