Continuum is a versatile packaging of several Brightcove video products, designed to offer a variety of high-end video tools to enterprises, particularly as they face the need to connect a workforce that is now highly decentralized because of the pandemic.
Secure Cloud combines an updated version of the AppRiver platform with Zix and AppRiver applications, to make this Zix’s flagship offering going forward.
Extreme Networks thinks its new initiatives to promote ExtremeCloud IQ will be disruptive on their own terms, and will also be well suited to the particular short-term environment created by the coronavirus pandemic.
Garry Olah, who took over as CEO late last year, has restructured the company’s focus and Go-to-Market strategy, so that the name change to Buurst is but a complementary aspect to the story.
Okta has a strategic focus this year on improving partner capability to do more in the deal process, and has implemented multiple initiatives to facilitate this.
In addition to the cloud-native capability for OpenText applications, which will roll out over this quarter, OpenText makes a multitude of other enhancements and some new additions in the 20.2 release.
Jeff MacMillan, founder and CEO of Victoria-based KeyNexus, becomes StorMagic’s CTO, with responsibility for the whole company’s technology strategy.
The new Poly partner program which brings the two legacy ones together will feature a new partner portal, that will be live on April 10.
While OneXafe Solo’s ability to self-install by being plugged in is useful in today’s health conscious environment that same ability to cut MSP costs around original installs attracted partners in the beta who had not worked with StorageCraft before.
SonicWall has made some significant changes to their MSSP partner program, adding more flexible billing and licensing management options, and tweaking the program tier requirements and benefits.
The Lenovo ThinkAgile MX1021 is a turnkey HCI appliance designed around the Microsoft Azure Stack for edge use cases, while the ThinkSystem DM7100 is an NVMe-powered unified storage array whose tiering capabilities are well suited to hybrid cloud strategies.
Scale has seen their initial partnership with Acronis around Acronis Backup to be a major competitive displacement advantage for partners, and are looking to extend that further with the Acronis cloud backup solution.
Automation Workflows introduce high customizable autoremediation capabilities into the Pulseway alerting system, allowing most tasks to be handled by the system itself.
The multi-faceted changes to the DCG program are designed to refresh policies which new DCG channel head Steve Biondi saw as having disincented strong partner growth activities instead of encouraging them.
Okta kicked off Okta 20, its first and what it hopes will be its last virtual annual user conference, with the FastPass announcement, which leverages new Okta Platform Services to create a secure biometrics-based login experience.
While RingCentral maintains its partnership with Zoom, its new browser-based video now comes standard in RingCentral Office. It is also standard in Avaya Cloud Office, although Avaya will continue to sell its own video solutions to their enterprise customers.
Adobe’s virtual Summit, a concession to the unprecedented circumstances created by the coronavirus pandemic, becomes the first annual customer event to try the virtual approach. While new product and strategic direction received less attention than at a regular event, and customer experience rather more, for Adobe specifically, that’s likely enough.
HYCU, which started out with a purpose-built backup for Nutanix, continues to broaden its native support for other vendors, adding Azure support to the Google Cloud Platform support they announced last year.
Datadobi’s new release adds the ability to document chain of custody for compliance and legal purposes to DobiMigrate Version 5.8, a differentiator that has been absent before, because it was hard.
Data migration is a secondary feature of Komprise, which primarily moves data for archiving, but its new Elastic Data Migration capability provides a highly parallelized capability that is ideal for WAN migrations, and should increase that use case.
