Originally an Office 365 management tool, ConnectWise added Azure management last year, will have Cisco management capabilities by the fall, AWS soon after that, and more coming down the road.
The new Storage Guardian integration provides real-time data recovery times and recovery point objectives, rather than estimates, which partners can use to offer new services.
The latest Pax8 ConnectWise integration has optimized their interface within ConnectWise Manage to reduce the clicks in ordering, updating and linking cloud subscriptions.
ConnectWise CEO Arnie Bellini says that while technology solution providers are beset by new challenges, the dynamics of the mature and nature of IT innovation continue to create ways for companies to reinvent themselves.
The Tasktop Integration Hub, focused on software development, provides integration services between large numbers of lifecycle and dev/ops tools – but the company is planning to expand its capabilities.
In addition to a three tier program for service providers, Pure Storage is adjusting how its internal sales people are compensated to remove what service providers believed was a tendency to favor working with traditional partners over ones selling Pure as a service.
Partners and customers of both Veeam and Pure have been requesting the integration, although it won’t become generally available until the fourth quarter of 2017.
The enhancements, which include support for Oracle RMAN and SQL, as well as the Hyper-V and Nutanix Acropolis hypervisors, strengthen the Rubrik enterprise play.
Avaya customers are assured of consistency in service support, Avaya partners will be invited into the Extreme channel program, and further details on platform integration will be disclosed beginning with another webinar after the Avaya deal closes on July 1.
Breqwatr, which makes an easy-to-deploy private cloud appliance, and sells through an all-channel model, now has an OEM deal with Pure which is significantly expanding their addressable market.
The new cloud service is delivered through an infrastructure Palo Alto will manage and maintain, but it’s an offering partners can resell, not one that will compete with them.
The framework lets developers write new apps to the Palo Alto Next Gen security platform, and allows for these to be consumed as cloud-delivered security apps.