The company has already enlisted 138 MSPs since an unpublicized soft launch at the beginning of June, and is looking to its RMM being both less expensive and less complex to manage than existing RMMs to drive that number up significantly.
Versa began as an SD-WAN vendor, but has been rapidly transitioning into the SASE market, will spend much of the fresh $86 million raised on sales and marketing, in a market in which many customers still don’t really know what SASE is.
The firewall refreshes are the highlight, but as is their custom, SonicWall also accompanied them with a flurry of software updates, as well as availability for free of all their security information through a single Capture Labs portal.
The new Threat Prevention capability, which comes through Webroot BrightCloud, is accompanied by a choice of packages with or without the capability, as well as deployment options which allows for data to be assessed at the edge.
Two of them, Safeguard Secure Remote Access and Safeguard for DevOps, are brand new, while the Endpoint Privilege Management solution has been enhanced with new capabilities.
The acquired technology’s ability to expand the use cases around Lumada will also expand channel partners’ services opportunities.
FinancialForce’s CEO also noted that the company has reinvigorated its channel focus in the last year, which is playing a role in accelerating their momentum.
Syntax, an enterprise cloud ERP solutions provider, was primarily an Oracle specialist before a 2019 acquisition gave them a strong SAP presence in Europe and Asia, and now with the acquisition of Illumiti, whose business is mainly in the U.S. and Canada, they make a similar upgrade to their North American capabilities.
Nerdio’s newer and more advanced platform will be well suited for MSPs with more experience in Azure Virtual Desktop, who want more flexible deployment options.
HPE’s CEO discussed how the new announcements around HPE Lighthouse, Project Aurora, Silicon on-Demand and compute as-a-service drives HPE’s vision forward, and also commented on their just announced acquisition of DeterminedAI.
The new CRU integrates existing ConnectWise assets drawn from multiple acquisitions in a more formal and comprehensive form than before, and includes a threat intelligence feed.
The third annual Vanson Bourne study prepared for ConnectWise finds that SMBs would pay a third more for an IT service provider who can offer the ‘right’ solution, but that many MSPs still find it hard to communicate what the SMB needs to hear.
The component of the news likely to turn the most head is the new AOS 10, which brings together WLAN and SD-Branch within a single operating system.
HPE kicked off its Discover event with a flurry of announcements around HPE GreenLake, including GreenLake Lighthouse, Project Aurora, Silicon-on-Demand, a new Compute Cloud Console – and eight new services.
While Splunk started out as an on-prem company, they see the cloud as the future, and while customers aren’t being forced to move to the new cloud, it does become Splunk’s primary security offering.
Microsoft gets a huge numbers of downloads for SQL Server containers, but its stateful containers have issues with stateless Kubernetes and kept them in DevTest environments. DxE for Containers was built to change that.
The addition of the ability for the user to set different data management policies and activities for separate geos and branches is done through a single dashboard, which also facilitates even stronger analytics capabilities.
Check Point’s messaging around protection of any user on any device using any application is strengthened by expansion of workload protection, to provide stronger ability to deliver that using any application.
Avanan sold its email suites direct until 2019, but has been moving to a 100% channel model, and is looking to its new partner program to accelerate that shift.
Dell’s global channel chief Rola Dagher talked with ChannelBuzz about the state of the Dell channel today, and the priorities for the rest of the year ahead.
