Articles by Mark Cox

Cloud

FinancialForce drives ‘everything as a service’ model deeper with Spring 2018 release

April 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on FinancialForce drives ‘everything as a service’ model deeper with Spring 2018 release
The latest release of the FinancialForce suite also strengthens predictable services capabilities in their PSA offering, and further improves forecasting with additional Salesforce Einstein integration.

Security

Nyotron building out channel for OS-Centric Positive Security solution that plays nice with other products

April 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nyotron building out channel for OS-Centric Positive Security solution that plays nice with other products
It’s early days for Nyotron’s channel in North America, with only a tiny number of partners, and none in Canada, but the company is looking to change that.

Security

Cofense – formerly PhishMe – moves to 100 per cent channel model

April 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cofense – formerly PhishMe – moves to 100 per cent channel model
Cofense offers a full suite of phishing products to address the phishing threat within a collective defense model, with a focus on the enterprise.

Mobility

HPE to bring wireless power startup Chargifi to their channel through HPE Complete program

April 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE to bring wireless power startup Chargifi to their channel through HPE Complete program
Chargifi’s pipeline has grown massively since iPhone support for wireless charging was announced last year, and the company is aggressively pivoting to a channel strategy, which will soon see them add distribution in the U.S. and Canada as well.

Cloud

Liquidware strengthens DaaS appeal with new ability to save direct to object-based cloud storage

April 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Liquidware strengthens DaaS appeal with new ability to save direct to object-based cloud storage
Liquidware also thinks that the capability to save directly to the AWS, Microsoft and Google object storage clouds, which is a first in this space, will also appeal to customers with a hybrid desktop computing strategy, who are not yet ready for a full move to DaaS.

Cloud

Morpheus Data adds new features to their cloud management and orchestration platform

April 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Morpheus Data adds new features to their cloud management and orchestration platform
Morpheus Data, which sells entirely through channel partners, is particularly looking to expand in the MSP space.

Security

Lastline Malscape Monitor report says most threat intelligence information is nearly useless

April 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lastline Malscape Monitor report says most threat intelligence information is nearly useless
In addition to the report, Lastline also announced a new Lastline Behavioral Intelligence Program, which provides actionable information about cybersecurity that any security teams can use, to benchmark their own capabilities.

Backup

Unitrends targets Veeam with VM Backup solution

April 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Unitrends targets Veeam with VM Backup solution
This initial version of VM Backup Essentials supports a maximum of six sockets, and so is aimed at enterprise departments and SMBs, but Unitrends says that an enterprise version will be out later this quarter.

Backup

Cohesity adds CloudSpin capability for faster test/dev in the cloud

April 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity adds CloudSpin capability for faster test/dev in the cloud
CloudSpin will be integrated as a free component within the Cohesity platform when it becomes available in 90-120 days.

Cloud

Vena Solutions adds corporate performance management software to Sage Intacct in new partnership

April 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Vena Solutions adds corporate performance management software to Sage Intacct in new partnership
The Sage Intacct-Vena integration, which is available on the Sage marketplace, brings together two products which are highly rated for customer satisfaction.