Cisco sees its developer community as even more critical as it pushes well beyond its traditional hardware core, and to this end has launched a new collaborative lab environment for their use.
Five months into the job, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins laid out his vision of where the IT economy is headed and what Cisco needs to do to lead the changes. It’s a vision that will fundamentally change Cisco from a hardware-focused maker of networking gear.
Organizations that accept and foster alignment of cybersecurity and business, in language and in practice, will be better positioned to adapt to change and achieve their objectives.
Several new desktops, all-in-ones and notebooks were announced, with HP emphasizing new design, security and collaboration features, some of which are unique to them.
EiQ Networks, which built its business in the large enterprise and U.S. federal government space, has added a SaaS SMB focused component to it, and is opening a SOC in Vancouver to support this managed security service.
Waterloo-based Auvik, which entered the RMM space this year from a background in network management software, has chosen their first PSA integration partner, with others soon to follow.
D&H’s mobile capacity previously was an app designed for iOS specifically. Now non-Apple phone users can also get D&H site access while on the move with a new website that launched Monday in both Canada and the U.S.
Palerra makes a platform which combines configuration, monitoring, analytics and remediation, and is looking to add some select MSSPs and cloud solution partners.
The suite, which contains new versions of its AVG AntiVirus Business Edition and AVG Internet Security Business Edition products, also contains a free remote management console.
Details of the integration, such as whether Intronis will be an independent subsidiary, have not been finalized, but Barracuda says they are committed to have a dedicated MSP business, with Intronis at the core of that.
The new program is also much simpler than the old, with the number of tiers cut by almost two thirds. The cloud changes won’t impact Canada though – the cloud product still isn’t available here. Canadian partners will find opportunity registration and training changes interesting however.
While HP is emphasizing the new Z240s’ utility as a PC replacement for workstation tasks at a PC price, they also contain several distinct HP engineering enhancements.
Actiance has previously worked with IBM’s Lotus group on specifically IBM-related tools, but the new deal covers IBM Information Lifecycle Governance and encompasses the entire Actiance platform.
Harry Gould, SailPoint’s new worldwide channel chief, is looking to expand the channel business for what he said is a distinct set of offerings which is popular among partners.
The company’s staff was taken by surprise when the news was announced, and concerns were expressed that their laid-back culture would be changed. IT Weapons will however operate as a subsidiary, nothing will change internally, and the big change will be exposure to 18,000 Konica Minolta Canada customers.
A reference architecture co-designed with vendor partners Cloudera and Syncsort simplifies Big Data and analytics processes for new Hadoop users, and chops the expense of data transformation jobs.
Dell unveils its second 100 GbE S-Series switch for the data centre, as well as a new campus architecture which has 100 GbE capacity for the future.
Silver Peak is reworking its channel program to better prepare partners for the SD-WAN market opportunity, which is much larger than traditional WAN optimization, and to assist them in making deployments which will be much less technical and complex than in WAN optimization.
The strategic acquisition of assets Absolute wanted to divest to focus on its core business continues HEAT’s transition from FrontRange’s old SMB business to an integrated endpoint management platform that increasingly appeals to enterprises
All the new printers have built-in self-healing security features with protection down to the BIOS, secure whitelisting, and run-time intrusion detection. All these are backward compatible to the LaserJets announced in the spring, and all but the BIOS protection is compatible on HP printers made since 2010.
