BalkanID will start out focused on the mid-market but plans to expand that, as they further develop their solution from automated IGA to fully automated telemetry.
Intel also provided updates on several important projects and other future items, which are still some distance on the horizon.
Intel CEO Gelsinger and his lieutenants acknowledged that Intel had fallen off in execution in recent years, but has taken aggressive steps, including internal reorganization of the company and building out its supply chain, to make these non-issues going forward.
Sunday, whose name refers to the fact that it also protects you when you are not at work, provides senior executives, and eventually their families, with Personal Cybersecurity to head off new types of attacks that go beyond traditional company emails.
A major theme running through the announcements is to make it easier for more types of partners to engage in higher level value-add activities with Fortinet.
Zoho has been introducing unified platforms for things like billing, and the addition of a unified platform for marketing follows up this theme, simplifying the marketing experience, connecting it more tightly with Go-to-Market strategy and increasing its impact.
The gains were similar to those in the U.S, which is impressive because the Interactive Flat Panel business is more advanced in the U.S. than in Canada.
Acumatica has a 100% channel strategy, but that makes it even more imperative to maximize the efficiency of their partners, and Boguszewski has some plans in this regard.
RevMatch now essentially becomes the top tier of a new two-tier program, which adds new features and benefits for partners.
Norwegian-based Neat, available exclusively through D&H in North America, has some interesting capabilities that stand out, and also has relatively fewer partners here, meaning that partners can make larger margins.
Rola Dagher, a Canadian who came to the Dell channel job from running Cisco Canada, also singled out the Canadian channel for its recent work.
On Day Two, Dell emphasized storage enhancements in their PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex portfolios, but also stressed these were not standalone announcements, and were part of the company’s multi-cloud vision laid out on the previous day.
On Day One of Dell Technologies World, the keynote address laid out both Dell’s multi-cloud strategy and the products from the show that specifically advanced that strategy.
ESET Inspect Cloud, a rebranding of their ESET Enterprise Inspector solution makes it available in the cloud for the first time as well as on-prem, as ESET’s customer base, which had a high on-prem bias until recently, is asking for more cloud options.
Ivanti Neurons Patch for Microsoft Endpoint Manager makes customers aware of the vulnerabilities in the Microsoft product, many of which Microsoft itself does not list, as well as how to reduce threats like ransomware through them. Ivanti Neurons for Risk-Based Vulnerability Management improves measurement, prioritization and control of cybersecurity risk, while the Digital Experience score is an important add that improves digital employee experiences.
Waterloo-based Cavelo makes a platform which assesses broad aspects of data management and regulatory reporting requirements, and, unusually for their space, is focused on the SMB and SME rather than the enterprise, and concentrates on going to market through partners.
No-code Avaya Virtual Agents make it easy for organizations to both acquire and deploy virtual agents, which improve the customer user experience, something which grades out poorly in customer surveys.
Trend Micro’s unified new platform enables a risk management cycle around everything, and starts with nine third party vendors who are also on the platform.
Kaseya has historically kept acquired companies as independent entities within Kaseya, but Datto is now worth more than Kaseya, and is a direct competitor as opposed to a maker of complementary solutions. Nevertheless, the plan is for Kaseya to remain separately run, just like those past acquisitions.
Following up on last fall’s edge releases, which were more about manufacturing, Dell Technologies is launching a series of new edge solutions, most of which have a strong retail focus.
