Ottawa’s Tehama Technologies, which has was recently restructured under the leadership of multiple senior executives from the company, sees the new partnership with Microsoft as critical in the evolution of their strategy going forward.
Trend Micro already has a strong distribution network, but they think the MSP part of it could use some beefing up, and think that Pax8 is the ideal partner to do that for them.
Aim Security harmonizes the use of generative AI within security environments, something that security vendors have not been doing, and which leaves customer security vulnerable as a result.
HYCU’s new offering utilizes Claude, Anthropics’s AI assistant, to integrate AI into the HYCU backup platform.
Significant increases to Oracle’s Java pricing, including their recent move to employee based pricing, have led to customer concerns, and Azul has been a key beneficiary of this.
Back on its own, following the bankruptcy of former parent company StorCentric last year, Nexsan adds a new high-end model with immutable backups and S3 object locking.
The 100 Gbps throughput essentially doubles what was being offered last year, and allows connectivity and a large variety of security offerings to be delivered to customers as a single application.
ControlUp has also announced that long-time Citrix veteran Julia Scully has come over from Citrix to be Head of Global Channel, where she will oversee multiple other channel program enhancements in the year ahead.
A key target is edge sites, which can be part of larger companies, but which serve niche use cases that will give them 5G and cellular technology that is priced for the use case, and far superior from a technology perspective than the consumer grade products that are often used for these purposes now.
The changes remove inconsistencies around these program features, and will be followed up in 2024 with additional partnership and program announcements, some of which are now imminent.
The Service track follows the Sell and Build tracks that went live when Partner Plus was launched last year, and is aimed more at regional GSIs, MSPs and other types of partners that have been doing little or no business with IBM.
Like almost all of the new PC products, ASUS’ new commercial offerings emphasize the surge in AI, with both Intel and Google AI offerings.
Intel’s two new processors have been trumpeted by the company for months, and they are still emphasizing the massive impact that their AI will have on both, and what customers will be able to do with them.
Mark Hickman, Managing Director at Sage Canada, reviewed the recent news items of particular significance for the Canadian market, and noted some additional changes coming next year.
Colby Calonica, who had been VP of Sales, is a major channel advocate, and has been promoted to Vice President of Global Sales, Channels and Alliances, to give him responsibility for all the sales efforts.
Snyk AppRisk extends the company’s ASPM portfolio to improve collaboration among development and security teams in ASPM.
Intel’s new state of the art Fab 52 and Fab 62 are scheduled to come on line next year. Intel recently held a media event where they detailed the progress within the company’s overall strategy and provided a media tour of the factory floor of the existing Fab 42.
The optimism reflects an environment today where businesses that have survived the turmoil of the last several years see new opportunities from the impact of Generative AI within traditional collaboration systems.
The number of SaaS applications that can be integrated is still limited however, because many apps lack the necessary security logs, so the company has also initiated an industry-wide “I want my SaaS alerts” campaign to encourage software vendors to include security log data in their APIs.
Trend Companion helps security analysts understand the meaning of alerts faster to better triage them, which is of critical importance in an environment where minutes matter.
