Eric Barnhart’s background is in distribution, and he intends to use a distribution perspective on channel issues to help optimize Zerto partners’ abilities to leverage the total potential of the platform.
Ecessa has been in the SD-WAN space for years, but only moved into the channel fairly recently, and first concentrated on telecom resellers. Now, assisted by new channel leader Leonard DiMiceli, they are focusing on adding MSP partners.
Clumio is targeting the enterprise space, with extreme simplicity as its attraction and a long-term goal of displacing incumbents in cloud, virtual and on-prem backup with their single solution.
The New Zealand based company has just launched a version of their new platform designed for MSP partners, with channel veterans Eric Martorano, who took over as CEO last fall, and Len DiCostanzo, who built the Autotask channel before the Datto merger, steering an aggressive channel re-orientation.
SKOUT provides SOC-driven cybersecurity services that are custom-designed for the needs of the SMB market, and while they started out on a direct model, they have moved to a channel-only one for new business, and are actively recruiting partners.
Identity Maestro, which was known as ServiceControl, before a 2017 rebranding, provides identity management for help desks and has reoriented their go-to-market strategy around MSPs.
The first generation of AMD’s EPYC server processors re-established the company in that market, but was mainly a hyperscaler play. The market for the next-generation will be much broader, and a significant opportunity for Lenovo’s channel.
In a flurry of initiatives united by making Axcient easier for MSPs to use and sell profitably, the company also upgraded their hardware appliances in an attempt to cut MSP support costs.
By the end of August, CloudOak will have two MSP offerings in general release, a Business Continuity Disaster Recovery appliance that offers Rubrik technology at SMB prices, and a cloud-based Business Continuity Plan application.
Chris Pope, Vice President, Innovation at ServiceNow, talks with ChannelBuzz about the fundamental transformations of the digital economy, and how they can best be managed to maximize business value.
Cybersecurity vendor BitDefender has been making some low profile changes to their channel teams and organization to improve management of their large channel on both the MSP and solution provider sides.
Brent Allen, Pure’s Canadian country manager, thanked Pure’s customers and partners for their partnership, and talked with ChannelBuzz about the company’s progress in Canada.
A Baltimore-area MSP for over 20 years was so impressed by the potential of the compliance market that he sold his company, and set up a new one to offer services, including compliance-as-a-service, through a channel of MSPs.
The IT trade association told solution providers that they need to invest some time learning about new tech areas – even though some of them won’t develop as anticipated – to avoid scenarios where a customer knows more about these things than them.
The MSP360 rebranding builds on other changes the company has been making over the last year or so, which has included the appointment of a new CEO, and is geared to broadening their platform beyond backup.
The new portal has prebuilt campaigns for email and social, and around business continuity and cloud migration, which can be customized into the partner’s brand and colours.
While Pax8’s MSPs give them good reviews on the interface of the distributor’s marketplace, the drive to improve the customer experience has led to enhancements around ordering speed, search, and granularity around user-based billing.
Sobel, a member of CompTIA’s Executive Committee of the Emerging Technology Community, discussed what the committee has identified as the top three technologies for 2019 – as well as one that was not even on the Top Ten list, but which Sobel thinks is critical for solution providers.
Defendify offers an automated platform of 13 solutions through a single pane of glass, and is aimed at MSPs who want to expand beyond providing staple services like firewall and AV without adding tons of extra work.