Palo Alto identifies five areas of innovation within a wide-ranging series of announcements, although the most exciting appear to be around the expansion of threat protection capabilities, including credential theft protection.
Dell EMC fills in the remaining blanks in what its new unified partner program, which formally rolls out today, will look like.
Acronis’ on-prem product in their hybrid cloud architecture now has the same feature set as their cloud offering.
The changes involve certifying partners in Canada and Latin America to sell the Prophet 21 wholesale distribution solution.
Absolute leverages the technology that it embeds in firmware into an endpoint solution which provides an added level of resilience to designated applications.
The new Streaming Prevention technology, which will be added to the existing Cb Defense endpoint product in the spring, is designed to stop non-malware as well as malware attacks.
ZeroStack adds a new dimension to their original offering, and lays out the road map for the next two stages of their technology rollout, both of which are scheduled for later this year.
Comodo’s endpoint solution is relatively new to the market, but has posted strong adoption rates and has just been added to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.
Other IDC projections for the year ahead include strong partner moves into the digital transformation market, an emphasis on Customer Success programs, and changes to vendor Partner Success models.
Webroot SecureAnywhere DNS Protection is aimed at the SMB MSP market, while Webroot FlowScape Analytics is more for MSSPs and Webroot BrightCloud Streaming Malware Detection is primarily an OEM play.
Memory, performance and capacity have been increased, with capacity on the physical models going up from 100 per cent in the entry level appliances, to between 15-30 per cent in the high end ones.
Carbonite’s chief evangelist takes with ChannelBuzz about the Double-Take deal, the integration plans, and what it will all mean for both Carbonite and Double-Take partners.
ScoutShield uses technology from LookingGlass’s 2015 acquisitions of CloudShield and Cyveillance to create a Threat Intelligence Gateway that integrates with the LookingGlass ScoutVison threat intelligence platform.
Avnet will also distribute the HotLink Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering in the U.S., and Canada, an offering that Hotlink thinks is exceptionally well-suited to the channel.
The NetApp AFF A700s is aimed at customers looking to improve their data centre economics by significantly reducing physical footprint. NetApp also announced an updating and reworking of its storage capacity guarantee.
Datto makes a play for the cloud networking managed services market, which it says is full of enterprise-focused offerings that have ill-served MSPs and aren’t well suited to the SMB market.
AppRiver had a pre-templated campaign tool before, but it was limited to Office 365. The new one covers a broad range of their solutions, with 12 templates at launch, and more scheduled to be added.
CloudJumper, which was IndependenceIT’s largest white label partner, acquires approximately 60 partners in an IndependenceIT focused business unit, most of whom they expect will move to the CloudJumper platform.
Ingenu delivers wireless M2M connectivity using their RPMA technology, and is looking to Arrow to bundle their connectivity with Arrow’s own services offerings.
Igloo, which makes a cloud-based SaaS solution that includes Intranets within a broad array of collaboration and other business apps, presently has no partners in North America. Now, however, having piloted a partner program in other geos last year, they are looking to change that.
