Articles by Mark Cox

Cloud

Going private in $2 billion deal will enable Mitel to be more aggressive in transition to UCaaS

April 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Going private in $2 billion deal will enable Mitel to be more aggressive in transition to UCaaS
Mitel is also emphasizing that their acquisition by SearchLight Capital Partners means business as usual for customers and partners, with no change to the company’s leadership, roadmap or channel programs stemming from the deal.

Data Centre

Infrastructure services-focused telco Zayo strengthens channel resources to expand indirect business

April 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Infrastructure services-focused telco Zayo strengthens channel resources to expand indirect business
Zayo appoints a channel leader with much more authority and resources than the position has had before, as part of their initiative to expand their channel business and take advantage of their general momentum in the market.

Channel Programs

Bill Corbin takes newly-created channel role at 8×8 to take channels there to next level

April 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Bill Corbin takes newly-created channel role at 8×8 to take channels there to next level
Longtime Westcon exec Corbin is recruited to 8×8 to become old channel chief Chris Peters’ new boss, and talks with ChannelBuzz about his plans to drive the company’s business forward.

Networking

Illumio adds Qualys vulnerability data into their platform’s map of application communications

April 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Illumio adds Qualys vulnerability data into their platform’s map of application communications
The Qualys data will strengthen the microsegmentation capabilities of the Illumio platform, which maps out the relationships between applications, and programs security enforcement to defend against threats which breach the perimeter.

Security

Trend Micro email writing analysis technology highlights their RSA phishing announcements

April 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Trend Micro email writing analysis technology highlights their RSA phishing announcements
Trend Micro also announced a free phishing simulator for business, as well as their participation in a new vendor alliance that pledges to customers it will not assist any government in offensive cyber-operations.

Backup

Commvault adds Office 365 indexing and discovery to their Azure Stack Integration

April 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault adds Office 365 indexing and discovery to their Azure Stack Integration
The Commvault enhancement allows the indexing and searching of OneDrive for Business documents saved on Azure Stack hybrid clouds, something that will have strong relevance for compliance use cases.

Data Centre

Cyxtera looks to next-gen data centre colo business with new CXD platform and two on-demand services

April 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cyxtera looks to next-gen data centre colo business with new CXD platform and two on-demand services
The first two services around the new Cyxtera Extensible Data Center Platform are on demand connectivity and compute, with the latter enabled through a partnership with Nutanix.

Cloud

BetterCloud stepping up channel push around multi-vendor SaaS management platform

April 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on BetterCloud stepping up channel push around multi-vendor SaaS management platform
BetterCloud just closed a new funding round, with part of the money being used to allow them to ‘step on the gas’ and speed up their channel momentum.

Channel Programs

Dell Boomi unveils more mature, formalized partner program to keep pace with their growth

April 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Boomi unveils more mature, formalized partner program to keep pace with their growth
The changes include better definition of tiers and requirements to advance, new competencies in all the Dell Boomi solution areas, and much better partner accessibility to resources.

Cloud

Announcement of McAfee CASB Connect Program highlights cloudy RSA for McAfee

April 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Announcement of McAfee CASB Connect Program highlights cloudy RSA for McAfee
Building on their cloud momentum after the integration of Skyhigh and their Security Cloud, McAfee also announced container support for their cloud workload security offering, and released a survey tracking trends in cloud usage.