Increased demand created by COVID was critical in the company’s decision to take $200 million of existing funding. The money will support foreign expansion, new product development, and more channel field resources.
McAfee also strengthened their existing Secure Access Service Edge capability within MVISION, adding new Remote Browser Isolation technology and new Data Loss Prevention functionality.
Pure Storage also announced new expanded incents around new logos and their Pure-as-a-Service offering, the availability of their Pure Sizer Tool for larger platforms, and the formal introduction of their new portal with role based learning tools, which became available several weeks ago.
NetApp’s CEO kicked off NetApp INSIGHT with the same kind of precise and combative address he generally gives in his non-virtual speeches, and explained NetApp’s strategy and why he thinks it will help customers address current problems.
Enso exits stealth with $6 million in seed funding, with a solution they think is unique in the market, and with a plan to develop an MSSP channel.
StorCentric is the holding company that owns enterprise storage brands Nexsan and Vexata, and the SMB-focused Drobo and Retrospect, is releasing to GA the first solution under the StorCentric brand with the software Data Mobility.
Prentiss Donohue, SVP of Partners and Alliances at OpenText, provides ChannelBuzz with a channel update, particularly around progress on bringing the newly acquired SMB channel into the broader ecosystem.
The pandemic has led to significant demand for the Cybersense ransomware solution, which is integrated with Dell EMC PowerProtect Cyber Recovery, and goes to market through Dell, IBM Resiliency Services, and their partners.
The new cloud-native solution is built on the WekaFS file system, and integrated into unified storage solutions though reference architectures with object storage Technology Alliance partner vendors like AWS, Cloudian, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Seagate, Quantum, and Scality.
Together with NetApp Cloud Manager, and NetApp Virtual Desktop Management services, which are also being announced at NetApp Insight, NetApp is unveiling a differentiated suite of applications for both traditional and cloud partners to sell.
Cloudify’s 5.1 release adds integrations to allow it to be an ‘orchestrator of orchestrators for all cloud environments, and also adds DevOps integrations for those environments.
By coincidence, TIBCO’s latest acquisition takes place as they are in the process of integrating the channel programs from previous acquisitions into a new and more diverse one, which should expedite the integration of the Information Builders partners.
Because of the time of year, the Dell Technologies World channel keynote this year was much less heavy on programmatic and enablement-related announcements than normal. They did, however, introduce several executives in new channel roles, and give the expected exhortations about the importance of the channel to the company.
Infinidat has done well in the last two quarters, and credits a channel management strategy that goes beyond switching to Zoom calls.Enterprise storage provider Infinidat has been doing well in 2020, despite the fact that they sell expensive on-prem storage to enterprises in the middle of a pandemic. That has involved getting more from the…
Company co-CEOs and co-founders Peter and Matthew Cassars reviewed additions to SherWeb’s capabilities since last year’s event, and also announced the availability of one of their in-house solutions, Performance Cloud, which is powered by VMware.
The Partner Summit itself, the first since Extreme remodelled its channel organization to work within regional units, got feedback on the changes and the direction of Extreme’s channel strategy.
Datto’s Rob Rae sees Datto’s successful going public on Wednesday as a significant plus for Datto MSP partners because it strengthens both the company and the MSP business as a whole.
Splunk’s .conf20 was virtual this year, which fundamentally changes how partners approach an event, but the themes of interest to the channel this year are the same as if the event had been physical.
Project APEX is a vision of consolidating Dell’s cloud and as-a-service strategies, but new product is coming. The Cloud Console that will manage everything starts public preview today, and it and a new Storage as-a-Service offering on it will GA the first half of next year.
Digitalware sees their new offering as unique in the market, because while many types of offerings do some of what they do, no one does all of it.
