HYCU expects that the significant enhancement in the support they now provide for SAP HANA in Google Cloud will further enhance that solution’s strong momentum, which they announced was 600% year-on-year growth.
In addition to several significant announcements, which include the new Splunk Observability Suite, Splunk also announced the acquisitions of two companies, Plumbr and Rigor, whose technology will rapidly be integrated into that suite.
In a preview to his keynote today at the Acronis Global Cyber Summit, Serguei Beloussov said that traditional backup and traditional resellers are obsolete in a world of cloud and MSPs, and Acronis is expanding its infrastructure and partner enablement to respond to that change.
The new TrueNAS SCALE rounds out the company’s software options, while the R-Series, which addresses non-mission critical use cases, and can still scale to huge capacities when paired with the HCI software, adds to the hardware options.
The ONTAP changes are highly significant and include the addition of both continuous data availability and S3 object services.
The new training, which has been redesigned to be both massively scalable and capable of being deeply personalized, will be free in 2020 for existing Acronis partners.
In addition to their Prisma Cloud 2.0 announcement, Palo Alto Networks has announced the availability of their first Canadian-based cloud region.
These connectors for Proofpoint’s Capture platform have become even more significant because of the transition to Work From Home situations, and the need to keep the same level of retention of collaboration tool data that has been present in offices.
One new program is around Terminal API integrations, while the other is for agencies around Square Online. Square is also planning big improvements to their App Marketplace.
Zerto Data Protection leverages new cloud and feature capabilities from their Zerto 8.5 release, also being announced today, to go after the backup providers who Zerto customers have been using for their non-mission critical applications.
This is Jabra’s first partnership around their PanaCast 180 degree panoramic camera solution, and the goal is to extend the collaboration partnership with HP, which will include letting HP leverage the data capabilities from PanaCast.
SD-WAN Secure Home is designed to extend Masergy’ SD-WAN to home offices, while SD-WAN On the Go is a software client for mobile users needing secure access – which can also be used as a low-cost home office solution.
HashiCorp channel chief Michelle Graff talks with ChannelBuzz about the company’s channel progress since the revamp of their channel program and strategy a year ago, and indicated what’s new for the year ahead.
ScalePad’s expansion of their services for MSPs to provide the same kinds of services for software that they have for hardware continues to extend their business beyond warranties.
Cohesity DataProtect Backup as a Service will be the first service within the new offering when it launches near the end of the year, although it will not initially be available in the AWS Canada region.
The new Poly Sync devices, which extend from the home office [Poly Sync 20] to small and mid-sized conference rooms [Poly Sync 60] feature both newer technology and price points that are competitive in the small device space.
The security enhancements include end-to-end AES data encryption, TLS support, an X.509 digital certificate and new Kubernetes support.
Tichbon, who has a telco background that she sees as highly relevant to the SaaS company that Sage is becoming, thinks Sage Intacct will be a key product in the Canadian market going forward.
Today, at their virtual Okta Showcase event, identity vendor Okta is announcing two new Okta Partner Connect specializations. Both are Services Delivery specializations. The Customer Identity specialization is an explicitly services-focused one around Okta’s core capabilities. The Okta Access Gateway one is for partners helping customers with broad digital transformation projects as they move to…
PingOne MFA and PingOne Risk Management are the first two services in an inventory of cloud services that Ping expects to hit double digits.
