Most MSPs have chosen not to become involved in the UCaaS market, something Pax8 is trying to change, in the belief that their ecosystem can provide MSPs with more visibility than they have had from working directly with these vendors.
Okta’s partner report is a follow-up to an earlier one done with Okta customers, and the trends are essentially the same.
Sonrai uses workflow and role-based swimlanes to address identity and workload-related issues by automatically routing actions to cloud, security, audit or DevOps teams, or deploy remediation bots to address the issue, with the customer being able to determine how they want things handled.
The new Dynamic Edge Protection Suite consists of two solutions, which bundles long-standing offerings into converged ones which are delivered as a service that are easy to administer and easy for home users to set up securely.
Naveego supplements its Master Data Management capabilities with broader data integration ones that make Naveego a complete data integration solution and let them get in front of customers they missed in the past.
The news involves reworking Commvault Data Protection and Commvault Backup & Recovery into separate products with a suite option, bringing Hedvig technology into HyperScale, expanding Hedvig support for Kubernetes, further encouraging subscription pricing, and positioning the Metallic SaaS offering to go upmarket and address the enterprise as well as the midmarket.
The new portal adds many features, like customized personas, which haven’t been in a Lenovo partner portal previously, and the company is confident the portal tools will build on good momentum of recent months.
Unsurprisingly, cybercriminals have evolved their tactics to better exploit the home-based work environments most organizations have moved to during the pandemic. The result has been changes like more (and more expensive) ransomware, increasing targeting of Microsoft Office files by cybercriminals, and increased use of non-standard ports for attacks.
Harness formalized a multi-tier partner program a year ago, which now includes close to 40 partners. Over the next six months, they will implement a broader training and certification program, deploy additional technical and sales resources, and roll out a Partner Solutions Lead Program.
SolarWinds partners using both N-Central and RMM will be able to deliver monitoring through Microsoft Intune, with true multi-tenanted capabilities and policy consistency not available to MSPs just by using Microsoft 365 alone.
IMT, which has a major presence in the media and entertainment industry, offers SoDA to move an unlimited amount of data at a fixed monthly rate, and will sell it entirely through channel partners.
LogMeIn makes two unrelated announcements, expanding MSP opportunities in their Identity and Access Management business, and adding new hardware bundles for GoToRoom in their UCC business.
StorMagic’s first SaaS offering turns the technology they recently acquired with KeyNexus into a cloud service, and the company says more SaaS offerings are on the way.
Given that partners have their hands full with the COVID-19 situation, NetApp wanted to limit the change they have to deal with now, but major changes are coming to simplify and expand the program, while adding new investment and better differentiating partners.
Ivanti Neurons uses what the company terms hyper-automation using AI and many types of bots to provide a secure, self-healing Autonomous Edge for remote workers.
Jason Falovo, who was the first Meraki employee in Canada, comes to Cradlepoint, to leverage their expertise in cellular as 5G begins its rise in Canada.
Brightcove sees the enterprise market as prime for the introduction of legitimate enterprise grade video solutions, and needs an effective channel to more fully penetrate that market.
Canonical continues its strategy within the last year of investing more to better manage relations with their high-value partners, by establishing a separate program for GSIs.
Barracuda is touting the unique nature of its solution stemming from an exclusive partnership with Microsoft, which should last at least six months before Microsoft opens it up to other vendors.
VMware Carbon Black has released their third annual cybersecurity threat report, a global report, which has a separate Canadian component, and the results are a decidedly mixed bag.
