At their Partner Event. Riverbed highlighted the success of Kentucky-based Tier 3 Technologies, which transitioned from an on-prem VAR to a SteelFusion and SteelCentral-focused MSP in less than three years.
The integration of two companies with fundamentally different partner bases poses specific challenges, but also creates new opportunities.
Riverbed says that the new platform will make it easy, for the first time, for traditional networking partners to deliver services around Riverbed technology.
Sage’s X3 product manager issues a call to action to channel partners not yet in the cloud to rethink their strategy.
Riverbed delineated the progress it has made in its cloud strategy over the past year – while also giving Cisco a backhanded compliment for providing leads for Riverbed SD-WAN solutions.
Riverbed looks to enhance partners’ selling motions around SteelCentral with a new toolkit to show off the Aternity technology acquired last year to customers.
Riverbed Reach, which was announced at last year’s partner event, went live two months ago, and its enablement of partners’ digital value proposition efforts is already bearing fruit.
The promotion for Canada’s long-time channel chief means that a replacement will be named – but no decision there has yet been reached.
Rubrik previously had the ability to archive in the cloud, but now has extended their cloud capability to allow their software to run natively on the major public cloud providers.
The Acuity solution’s priority-aware capabilities is the fruit of last year’s acquisition by Pivot3 of NexGen and its technology.
TP-Link, which once sold pretty much exclusively into the consumer and small business spaces, has been expanding its enterprise-grade products, and having more success selling upmarket.
Exact Macola’s largest Canadian partner is benefiting from the company’s reinvigorated channel focus, and sees great potential for Canadian customers in the new Macola product release.
The pre-integrated solution combines IBM’s Spectrum Scale software with Lenovo servers, and is the first of multiple related software-defined solutions Lenovo will announce this year.
Macola also made the first public announcement of its new Macola Labs, tasked with coming up with innovative new techy twists that can be applied to the software.
The new version of Macola’s software features a rethought design philosophy that simplifies the interface and makes it more mobile-friendly.
Managing Director Alison Forsythe sees 2017 as offering massive opportunities for manufacturing, which should mean massive opportunities for Macola and its partners.
The new Detector SDS offering is designed to provide MSPs with a sticky, differentiated offering that also can serve as a component of a premium offering for customers.
Rinki Sethi of Palo Alto Networks discusses the approach organizations need to take when building a modern cybersecurity team.
Sage also announced details of an IDC survey they sponsored showing a correlation between use of technology and both success and enjoyment of running a business.
VSkyMotion adds workload migration, disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud to the VSkyCube Infrastructure.
