Panzura is announcing the granting of a new patent today which is being leveraged to support Work From Home environments, and to expand Panzura’s customer base downmarket from its core of larger enterprises.
The new offering is a bundle of existing components, adding Acronis Backup and a choice of partner VDI offerings to the Scale HC3 platform, but it is purpose-built for organizations looking to protect home-based workforces.
IGEL has over 90 integration partners already, but this has been managed through an ad hoc system where IGEL developers did almost all the integration work. The new program will allow strategic partners to be more involved in this, allowing IGEL to have many more partners, and ensuring the integrations stay current.
The new Third Generation of Unity offerings has two models, with a strengthened portfolio of features around them.
The new solution couples distributed file system vendor WekaIO with the Hitachi Content Platform for object storage, but the Content Platform is also getting a refresh in its own right.
Digital Defense has deepened the way they assess and score risk, with new machine learning capabilities, providing a GPA-style score that indicates defense posture and clearly demonstrates value
The new Aparavi, The Platform, has a more robust set of data intelligence and automation capabilities than their original offering.
Commvault global channel chief Mercer Rowe discusses why Commvault reworked its channel program just a year after they remade it last year, and why he believes the changes will incent better partner performance.
The $925 million deal will integrate Silver Peak’s technology natively into the Aruba Central platform, to provide a broader comprehensive edge to cloud SD-WAN solution.
Boomi situates the Integration Center of Excellence service they launched earlier this year into a fuller collection of services offerings, which will have a channel component.
Zoho has had a broad COVID response strategy involving multiple initiatives, which largely reflect its own philosophy as a company.
Zomentum has signed up hundreds of MSPs since their tool became available last fall, despite the pandemic’s shutting down their activities around trade shows.
A new survey done on behalf of Zoho finds that while a significant majority of Canadian employees are happy with their companies’ corporate goals and their work in general, most are not happy with their technology, whether they are working in the office or remotely.
Ipro has been a powerhouse in the legal and public sector markets, and in the analysis end of the market, while NetGovern complements this with a strong presence in many verticals and a focus on the upstream part of the market involving collection and preservation of data.
Vectra has also introduced more standardization of the programs in EMEA, APJ and the Americas, while still allowing for some local flexibility.
Kaspersky Integrated Endpoint Security relies more on automation than their more upmarket Kaspersky Threat Management and Defense, which is for customers with SOCs.
The channel angle with this offering is really aimed at the Master Agent channel, as it is targeted at smaller customers.
Webroot’s improvements to DoH [DNS-over-HTTPS] will provide MSPs with the ability to tell customers that this is something that can significantly improve their privacy on the Internet.
Splunk’s channel growth has been a logical complement to the company’s cloud-first focus, and has also helped them deal with the pandemic-related challenges and respond to its opportunities.
While Metallic’s control plane was built on Azure, the Go-to-Marketing and engineering issues that have been announced around Azure are new.
