Barracuda is also releasing a new survey at the event, showing how the danger level to customers from various threats, including ransomware, has increased significantly.
The companies see this combination of enterprise grade support for both corporate and personal accounts in the same device as a first in the market, fulfilling a need that has grown significantly during the pandemic.
The most prominent new feature is a redo of the partner portal, which has been designed to leverage new capabilities in the just-released new version of the company’s StrongLink software.
Nebulon, which launched a year ago with server-embedded infrastructure software delivered as-a-service that competes against the big HCI players, has designed their program to make it easier for HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro partners to work with them.
The new offerings are being announced in conjunction with the 2021 Dell Technologies GDPI survey, which shows considerable customer doubt about their ability to protect their data, particularly against ransomware.
The expansion of TruScale into a company-wide offering was part of a major series of announcements, that included the related Hitachi Brain AI service and the Project Unity wireless connectivity framework.
COVID’s turmoil has both positive and negative impacts, with the negatives including some retreat from focusing on emerging technologies.
WDD is also emphasizing that OptiNAND is not another hybrid architecture, but a new type of technology that enhances the HDD with flash to improve the drive’s aerial density, performance and reliability.
The new TSG program complements the existing TLS program, which is focused on DigiCert’s SSL business, although it is designed to be select with a much smaller number of partners.
Cradlepoint’s new high end wireless router enters the market at a time when Cradlepoint continues to bolster its strength in Canada, and when the 5G market here is strengthening, with a very strong spectrum auction taking place a month ago.
Addigy sells through a large MSP channel, as well as a few DMRs, but until now they have always dealt with their MSP partners direct.
The third generation of the XDR solution continues to expand XDR protective capabilities beyond the endpoint, with a big focus being on enhancing the ability to provide protection in the cloud.
The new ‘291T’ solution has 291 TB of NVMe storage, giving it 23% more density than any other competitive solution in the market today.
The new program makes changes in both structure and resources to give partners more paths to deepen their partnership, and encourage network security companies to deepen their focus on application security, which is Checkmarx’s area.
Cribl, which makes it easier for companies to move their data around multiple tools, is planning an aggressive Go-to-Market expansion, which includes a channel that has been there from the beginning.
The Netskope Cloud Firewall-as-a-Service and SaaS Security Posture Management are new to the platform, while other capabilities have been improved.
Tessian is using a invite-channel program which focuses on higher end cybersecurity partners like Optiv.
Tigera has been selling commercial products using the Calico Open Source it developed for about two years, but within the last six months, increased channel interest has led them to develop that channel, now supported by a partner program.
Intel’s 2021 Architecture Day previewed multiple upcoming products, with the likely highlight being the Alder Lake CPUs, which rethinks multi-core architecture by offering both efficient and performance cores, with a new Intel Thread Director selecting the optimal one to be used.
The formal launch of the DataOps Suite, following a soft launch in late 2020, marks the integration of Hitachi Vantara’s data products into a single microservices-based architecture.
