Articles by Mark Cox

Cloud

Kemp sees use beyond sales in new TCO calculator to assess applicability of consumption-based licensing for customers

January 21, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kemp sees use beyond sales in new TCO calculator to assess applicability of consumption-based licensing for customers
Kemp has introduced a new TCO calculator that shows customers the difference in costs between metered, perpetual, and competitive licensing options, and is emphasizing its use as an educational tool that shows more than cost savings, illustrating how the alternatives apply in different kinds of scenarios, and whether consumption-based licensing is a good fit for a specific customer.

Internet of Things

Trend Micro makes IoT Security solution more useful for partners with new SDK capabilities and better integration

January 18, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Trend Micro makes IoT Security solution more useful for partners with new SDK capabilities and better integration
Trend Micro IoT Security 2.0 responds to an ask from Trend’s traditional channel partners to make the solution more flexible and easier for them to integrate, in order to improve their ability to monetize IoT opportunities.

Cloud

Pulse Secure introduces full-featured vADC Community Edition to turn developers into fans

January 17, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pulse Secure introduces full-featured vADC Community Edition to turn developers into fans
Pulse Secure has had free ‘try before you buy’ products before, but this new Community Edition has all the features of the full version, and with no time limit on use. The only limitations are that its scalability is limited to smaller applications, and it lacks the full management and Pulse Secure support.

Security

Barracuda beefs up Total Email Protection bundle with new Forensics and Incident Response capability

January 17, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda beefs up Total Email Protection bundle with new Forensics and Incident Response capability
This is the first new capability Barracuda has added to the Total Email Security bundle since they created it last fall, and they say that others are on the way.

No Picture
Cloud

CloudJumper looks to expand their Cloud Workspace presence in Canada with master reseller agreement with TNG

January 17, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on CloudJumper looks to expand their Cloud Workspace presence in Canada with master reseller agreement with TNG
Burlington ON-based TNG is playing a key role in expanding CloudJumper’s presence in Canada, and thinks that the DaaS and WaaS markets in Canada are ready for strong growth this year.

Big Data

Veeam discusses new $500 million VC investment and indicates it buries thoughts of IPO

January 16, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam discusses new $500 million VC investment and indicates it buries thoughts of IPO
Veeam’s Director of Product Strategy talks with ChannelBuzz about what the deal will mean for Veeam, and for its channel partners.

Internet of Things

Nozomi Networks continues to address IT/OT convergence issues with Schneider Electric partnership

January 16, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nozomi Networks continues to address IT/OT convergence issues with Schneider Electric partnership
This global deal, which is a very significant one for both companies, also has implications for Nozomi Networks’ strategy of bridging the gap between IT and OT, and for their IT vendor partners like Cisco and Fortinet and their joint channel partners.

Backup

Commvault, Cisco extend partnership with integration around Cisco HyperFlex HCI systems

January 16, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault, Cisco extend partnership with integration around Cisco HyperFlex HCI systems
The new integration extends ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS to Cisco’s HyperFlex hyperconverged products, and validates Commvault’s IntelliSnap snapshot technology with them.

Big Data

WANDisco adds multi-cloud capability to platform with blockchain technology

January 16, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on WANDisco adds multi-cloud capability to platform with blockchain technology
WANDisco has developed and patented DConE, its own blockchain technology that they can use today to keep data consistent across multiple clouds, and which they plan to be able to eventually use to manage distributed blockchain environments as well.

Partnerships

HPE, Datera partner on ‘ScaleIO-killer’ solution

January 15, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE, Datera partner on ‘ScaleIO-killer’ solution
Datera, which now has EMC veteran Guy Churchward at the helm, will also join the HPE Complete program, with a strategy that remains vendor-agnostic, but which for the moment has a strong leaning towards HPE.