SaaS backup-as-a-service startup Clumio, which sells entirely through channel partners, hired its first Canada-based sales and engineering team this spring, and is seeing good results in the Canadian market.
While the Microsoft and Diamanti solutions are complete net-news, the expansion of the Nutanix ThinkAgile HX portfolio to include the first AMD models in the Lenovo HCI portfolio may be the biggest news.
Claudia Slane joins Obsidian as Director of Global Channel and Alliances, and has designed a program to support a select channel with high margins and enablement benefits.
Volterra has beefed up their VoltMesh service by adding load balancer, API gateway and web application firewall capabilities that will serve every cluster with centralized management and with end-to-end policy control and visibility.
Bitdefender originally introduced its MDR offering in late 2018, and today is adding two new solutions to it, which are aimed at customers with more advanced security needs.
The Dell Precision 3240 Compact will compete with the HP Mini and the Lenovo Tiny, at a new low price point – unless a customer opts for the high end NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 option, which will be available in October.
FireMon is one of those companies that have benefited material from the shift to Work From Home, and Brian Keets plans to leverage that growth further in the quarters ahead.
SaaS Alerts, whose principals include former IndependenceIT execs Seth Bostock and Chip Buck, is targeting MSPs of all sizes.
Kubernetes S3 Operator provides full Kubernetes portability which meets the needs of both DevOps and production workloads, while cutting costs up to 60%.
Gavin Garbutt and Derick Belair are rolling out Augmentt, which has the same focus on partner enablement and education as N-able, which they ran before selling it to SolarWinds.
The partnerships around Cisco and HPE all-flash servers are backed by Joint selling and marketing programs, in what is a major initiative for all the companies involved.
Pure introduces the first capacity-optimized all-QLC all-Flash storage array, and dense 24.7TB and 49TB QLC DirectFlash modules.
Graphus makes an email protection platform with a strong anti-phishing component, and the technology has already been integrated into the Kaseya platform to create new synergies.
BackupAssist anticipates that most of their SMB customers will continue to recover on-prem, but the cloud recovery option is designed to offer additional protection, at a price far less than DRaaS solutions.
WekaIO’s high performance file system has primarily sold to universities and very large enterprises with AI initiatives, but they see the new plug-in as helping address AI initiatives more broadly in the Fortune 2000.
Acronis True Image had anti-ransomware security before, but a full security stack has now been added, replicating the company’s expansion of their enterprise Acronis Backup offering into Acronis Cyber Protect earlier this year.
The new Axcient program replaces a more informal one dating from the pre-merger eFolder days, and reflects the company’s growth and improved ability to provide more support for its partners.
Netsurion is looking to its new EDR partnership to attract MSP partners who have been using traditional endpoint protection, and haven’t seriously considered EDR because it has been too expensive for their market.
Their free FreeNAS product has been consolidated within the TrueNAS portfolio as the entry level (and still free) TrueNAS Core, which consolidates two platforms into one and accelerates R&D accordingly.
Ananda is pitching its new conception of networking at the Work From Home market, but its market is broader than that, and includes small firms as well as large. The channel is critical to their strategy.
