Pax8’s addition of a new cybersecurity vendor to their portfolio also signals a broadening out of their initial model to provide their partners with more options.
Carbonite aims to become the dominant player in data protection, and acquisitions like Mozy are a key part of their growth plans.
Cohesity is looking to move beyond its hyper-converged backup roots with an aggressive drive to attract customers looking for file and object storage as principal use cases.
The new functionality adds a task-based capability to Komprise’s long-term use cases, and since it uses the same engine as those cases, Komprise is not charging extra for it.
The ScramFS encryption system provides client-side encryption that does not require developers to be able to encrypt. Out of the gate, the channel resell opportunity is limited, but that will change with the introduction of user-facing business apps later this year.
While in the old Dell EMC converged lineup, a System 1000 would have been a new high-end model, the new VXBlock completely restructures the approach, and integrates all storage types in one offering. It makes this a single-model family with additional flexibility, greater cost efficiencies and simplified lifecycle management.
IndependenceIT’s CWS Workspace software allows CloudJumper to offer a more integrated portfolio, with both a full turnkey solution as well as separate software sales for customers who prefer that.
While CloudPoint 1.0 was all about snapshotting, 2.0 layers on additional data protection capabilities. It’s available now for Azure and Google, with AWS not that far off.
Nancy Teixeira, Vice President of Scale-up & Enterprise at Sage discusses the 4th Industrial revolution and the biggest trends already impacting channel partners
Armed with a new channel program, and a new exec to provide more focus on channel strategy, Qumulo looks to both improve the efficiency of its own channel, and the HPE channel that comes through their partnership with HPE.
The beginning of the new Dell EMC fiscal year in February is always the time for the most significant changes to their partner program, although the company acknowledged the changes this year are more about fine-tuning.
Among the changes coming to IGEL’s own hardware and software roadmaps, one of their thin clients about to be refreshed will see a switch from an Intel to an AMD processor.
Kaspersky Lab sees its combination of solutions and a service as a highly differentiated offering to protect customers against targeted attacks.
IGEL kicked off its first North American customer event in North America emphasizing their goal of disrupting the end user space through their 100 per cent channel strategy.
Ex-Citrix hand Michael Berman becomes IGEL’s first Sales Engineer in Canada, joining Shipman in the Toronto office. Compugen is named as the first Canadian-based IGEL Platinum partner.
New global channel chief Owen Taraniuk pledges more global expansion, more expanded strategic partnerships like the one announced last year with Cisco, and changes that will make it easier for partners to become proficient with Commvault.
Moses Mathuram has responsibility for strategy involving all types of TmaxSoft partners, but thinks the reseller channel in particular can be leveraged better, and that adding distribution is a way to do it.
The new AMD EPYC processors, which were announced last June, make their first appearance in three new Dell EMC 14th Gen servers aimed at more demanding use cases.
The SonicWall Capture Cloud Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection was added as a fourth Capture Cloud engine some months back, and is now being made public because of its ability to block the Meltdown exploit.
ZVR 6.0 extends bi-directional replication that Zerto had introduced in their previous release. Another highlight of 6.0 is a new management portal for Cloud Service Providers.
