VMware is emphasizing that its Virtual Cloud Network strategy needs to be fully embraced by a market that says it wants private clouds, but is too often content to run them in an inefficient old-timey way.
The two companies see Ingram being able to help their partners develop much more robust AWS practices with the nOps technology, starting with a small number of ones with deep AWS practices, but ultimately expanding more broadly.
Wandera enters the hot Zero Trust Network Access market with its new offering, but it also sees Private Access as highly complementary to its existing Mobile Threat Defense offering.
Centreon is based in France and has sold open source-based IT infrastructure monitoring for 15 years through a hybrid model, but the subsidiary set up in North America in 2018 was channel only, and the changes to the global program come from that subsidiary’s lessons about partner needs.
The Canadian version of Sage Marketplace launches with over 35 validated apps, some of which are larger players, some of which are Canadian companies, and with VAR partners as well as ISVs being encouraged to submit their solutions.
Pure also introduces a subscription version of the FlashStack reference architecture, built on its long-standing partnership with Cisco.Pure Storage has announced a significant expansion of their Pure as-a-Service consumption-based offerings. They have unveiled a new Service Catalog which provides public cloud levels of price transparency. They have introduced new Block service tiers, including one that…
Heath Thompson, who joined Quest a month ago, takes over a new Information Systems Management business unit that consolidates three of the five former ones, and emphasizes that the channel will play a more significant role as Quest drives forward in its new strategy.
The Stratusphere experience monitoring and diagnostics solution also gets many new metrics provided from endpoints, and a new API Builder.
At this stage, the offering is a set of concepts which are being realized into existing products, and there will be some new ones. The most immediate opportunity is in enterprise private networks, which are actively being developed.
StorMagic, which has a Go-to-Market partnership with HPE for their HCI software, has extended that from the initial ProLiant focus earlier this year to the edge-focused HPE Edgeline servers
New Senior Director of Channels Joe Sacchetti talks to ChannelBuzz about the storage-as-a-service provider’s pivot to a complete channel-focus, and the impact this will have on strategy going forward.
Innova, which had previously focused more on public cloud management, sees the new SaaSOps practice area as a way for them to stay ahead of the trend towards SaaS.
This Rubrik release, like its predecessor, is focused more on incremental changes to better facilitate large enterprise workloads, but 2021 is likely to see a return to some eye-catching new applications.
McAfee’s Cloud Native Application Protection Platform is still in beta, but is announcing a series of major integrations with AWS services to streamline deployment and management.
Large GSIs are a critical part of Zoho’s push into larger enterprise deals, and they believe the TCS partnership will be a fruitful one in Canada.
Pax8’s new offering – which they believe will provide MSPs saving that it warrants being Pax8’s first paid product for their partners – makes particular use of enhancements in Microsoft’s security technology.
build.security has developed a platform which makes it simple for developers to implement authorization policy, and which is likely to be put to numerous use cases, some of which will be conceived by partners.
The second generation of Ataccama’s platform, which reworks and extends the innovations of the first generation of this offering, is now in limited beta and scheduled for GA in February,
Zerto indicated it would make its long-awaited entry into Kubernetes earlier this year, and following the alpha program in conjunction with their virtual customer event in June, they have unveiled their beta, with the full release set for early next year.
Metallic Database Backup and Metallic File & Object Backup are the other new offerings, all built on the Metallic Core Backup & Recovery solution.
