StorMagic extends its ecosystem of large server vendor partners with HPE, although this one, unlike others with Lenovo, Dell and Cisco, is a technology integration rather than a Go-to-Market mechanism.
The expansion of their relationship with Google Cloud gives Redis Labs what they believe will be multiple ways to significantly sales for both themselves and their partner ecosystem.
vFilo’s file and object capabilities complement DataCore’s SANsymphony block storage, and while their interfaces are separate at the moment, the plan is to integrate them.
The changes will impact how channel partners monetize Dash, both by selling extra add-on features, and using it as a pre-sales tool to easily introduce customers to the technology on a small scale.
PowerOne’s autonomous infrastructure lets customers choose the outcome, and have the system’s intelligence automatically create the workload. It’s a process that Dell says took ten years to develop.
As part of an expansion of its consumption-based and as-a-service offerings, Dell’s PC-as-a-Service offering is also being extended further downmarket, to the tiniest of businesses.
HYCU, which started out with a purpose-built backup solution for Nutanix, and added one for GCP earlier this year, has introduced a major enhancement to the GCP offering.
The new capability lets MSP techs use phones and tablets for all but the most heavy duty tasks, through a built-in feature in both the iOS and Android mobile apps.
Invarosoft believes that their app-focused tool for enhancing MSP support is so fundamentally different from competitors that it constitutes a new channel of its own. The addition of new AI-based bots is designed to save time, reduce the number of tickets, and improve user experience.
It has been an eventful year for Cylance, following its acquisition by BlackBerry. May Mitchell talks with ChannelBuzz about the year coming to a close, and what to look for next year.
LumApps, which is aggressively expanding in North America and now sells more here than in Europe, has joined the Microsoft Partner eXperience program and plans to build out a strong Microsoft channel, as they have already done with Google.
Crushbank Insights uses Watson to glean emotion and sentiment analysis from help desk tickets, to provide information about how the tickets are being handled, for specific clients, and by individual engineers.
SAS partners played a bigger role than ever in the event this year, as SAS continues to move beyond its legacy direct sales days and invest more in its channel.
Zoho Docs was designed for an individual user, not as a group collaboration platform, so Zoho rebuilt it from the ground up to more effectively provide its capabilities to other Zoho One apps.
Sherweb is best known as a cloud service provider and distributor, but the company is now drawing attention to the broader value that it provides to partners.
Quickpass is focused on Active Directory and Office 365, just entered into a major product integration with IT Glue, and launched their first PSA integration with ConnectWise.
Blanco’s recent channel activity in North America has been focused more on the SMB with erasure-as-a-service, but a new partnership with SHI is targeted squarely at the enterprise and including Blancco in SHI’s holistic solutions.