BlackBerry introduced its new partner program at its BlackBerry Security Summit, while emphasizing the importance of partners to the Go-to-Market strategy going forward.
The BlackBerry Cyber Suite includes two brand new offerings, BlackBerry Protect Mobile and BlackBerry Persona Desktop, a UEBA solution. It also includes the existing BlackBerry Protect Desktop and BlackBerry Optics EDR.
Blue Prism sees the new offering as filling a major void in an important market, and as providing a good opportunity for channel partners who work the contact centre market.
ShoCard’s blockchain-based technology, which will be integrated into the Ping Intelligent Identity Platform, creates an identity wallet which gives the user more granular control over the identity information they surrender in digital transactions.
Linksys has also strengthened their support for the channel selling this Business Division offering by strengthening support for partner business motions and improving its optimization for MSPs.
The 2.5 release of the Rancher platform also adds the ability to deliver GitOps capabilities at scale, improved Amazon EKS cluster management, and a broader version of the government version of their platform.
The new cloud service is designed to give Commvault customers an easy-button option to establish a cloud backup on Azure.
Veeam sees Kasten’s technology with its focus on the application perspective and strong suitability for backup and DR use cases as highly synergistic with itself
DH2i’s new initiative involves an expanded relationship with Microsoft around its new Azure SQL Edge data engine, and their offering will be available in the Azure marketplace.
TIBCO’s CEO talked with ChannelBuzz about the company’s recent customer event, and how their long-time data strategy is getting new synergies in the COVID era.
WatchGuard is also announcing that Panda resellers can now join the WatchGuardONE program, with their status in the WatchGuard program grandfathered for six months.
They include Twilio Video Web RTC Go, a free toolkit for one-on-one video, EventStreams, which uses a single API to aggregate data from all Twilio powered experiences, Twilio Frontline for mobile workers, and Twilio Flex Ecosystem, a third party expansion of the Twilio Flex platform.
Dell Technologies’ VMworld announcements include enhancements to VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, tighter integration between VMware Cloud Director and Dell Technologies Cloud Platform, new support for VMware Tanzu, and a series of storage and data protection announcements.
The extension of the SolarWinds MSP relationship with Cisco follows up on a recent one with Microsoft, and are part of a broader initiative to further extend MSP effectiveness.
Centreon, which just expanded into North America from France in 2018, has had MSP partners as well as VARs, but this is their first complete MSP package with a pay-as-you-grow pricing model.
The Lenovo Score program is limited to 80 selected partners, 10 of whom will win a $5000 reno prize for exceeding growth targets, while the Lenovo Opt-In program is for non-registered, Authorized and Silver Lenovo partners, and provides multiplied D&H credits on sales to help partners advance in the Lenovo partner program.
FireMon says that their increased cloud capabilities differentiate them enough in the NSPM market to justify them calling their platform the first agile one in the industry.
The new announcements fall under the blueprint areas of Any Data, HCI Analytics and the Responsive Application Mesh.
The Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) 4.0 release makes significant enhances to Hitachi UCP Advisor, and adds important new SAP and VMware certifications.
Increased demand for digital workspace solutions in the Work From Home era has led Cameyo to both launch a partner program and D&H to sign on to take it to their partners and their SMB customer base.
