HP announces new financing and leasing options through an expansion of their partnership with HPE Financial Services, and a new partnership with global financing firm DLL Group. They also indicated more financing partners will be added.
Barracuda’s integration of Barracuda Content Shield into the Managed Workplace RMM platform it acquired earlier the year is slated to be the first of many, as Barracuda looks to make the platform a power in the MSP space.
AWS is a key partner in Talend’s cloud strategy, which this year will see the vendor sell more than half its new bookings on cloud products for the first time.
The Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform receives new multi-fabric orchestration and management and one-click automation capabilities, as well as the ability to easily manage many more sites than before.
Based on Intel’s Gen 10 NUC, the small form factor HE150 has the same software stack as Scale’s HC3 appliance, but is aimed at even smaller sites without even a small server closet, as it takes up only the space as three stacked smartphones.
McAfee’s integration of container security into its existing IaaS framework also brings security earlier into the DevOps cycle, to make it easier for developers to bake it in.
ExtraHop, which has shifted the emphasis of their business to security with Network Detection and Response, is looking to be seen as the NDR vendor of choice for the channel.
Both the Panzura Freedom cloud file services and Vizion.ai cloud data management and analytics service are now in the AWS Marketplace, which the company thinks will help channel partners as Panzura completes their transition to a 100% channel-led model.
The integration with the new service will speed up the time that MVISION Cloud for Amazon Web Services requires to map relationships between data indicating potential anomalies, and let humans collect the dots faster.
The new APN Global Startup program is aimed at ISV partners, as are changes to Marketplace policies. The new competencies impact both consulting and ISV partners.
Doug Yeum, who is at his first Re:invent as global channel chief talked with ChannelBuzz about his objectives in his new role, which reflect the fact he is not from a traditional channel background.
Cyberhaven also announced the close of their Series A funding round for what they term the industry’s first Data Behavior Analytics solution. While they are still in proof-of-concept stage, most of their sales go through channel partners.
Komprise has been able to move data to the cloud before now, but this is their first cloud native offering. Going forward, the plan, in fairly short order, is to get similar offerings available for the other big cloud providers
In what is likely one of the longest [but most interesting] stories ever to appear in ChannelBuzz, AWS CEO Andy Jassy outlines the dozens of announcements made so far at Re:Invent.
AWS-focused CloudRanger only sold direct before their acquisition, but now sell through Druva partners as well, and believes the changes will increase partners’ ability to sell to larger customers.
AWS-focused startup Clumio ramps up their support of the platform on which they were built, while also achieving recognition from AWS for their achievements.
The new orb is for the AWS Serverless Application Model that builds serverless applications for AWS Lambda, and meets a demand CircleCI says is now taking off.
Marcel Escorcio talks with ChannelBuzz about the major new additions to the Hitachi Vantara lineup announced at NEXT, and their implications for Canadian partners.