Pulseway has made 2FA available as an option for years, but the growing trend toward phishing and other attacks on users have led them to make it mandatory. So they also completely revamped the system to make it more user-friendly.
Automation platform provider Resolve, which has become a more energetic player in the market following their 2017 acquisition by a venture capital firm, sees major benefits from the deal for their channel, especially MSPs.
ReversingLabs, which just launched a new platform and won a Black Unicorn award, is formally launching a channel program as part of a move to expand sales by bringing in all new business through an expanded partner ecosystem.
The NetApp EF600 is a replacement for the EF570, and is a price-performance play aimed at HPC and other markets, where pure performance rather than some of the software features of the AFF line are required.
Four initial partners were invited to the program, and were required to take additional certifications and commit to co-hosting free Kubernetes training classes. In return, they will engage in joint sales and marketing opportunities with Rancher.
The multi-tiered storage tiering system for the AWS cloud covers all layers of AWS storage, including S3, Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive, with Druva moving the data either by its own policies or ones set by the customer.
Untangle, which has seen both the percentage of its business done through partners and by MSPs specifically grow significantly, will have new product in general release in Q4.
Probax, which sells entirely to MSPs, and has built beyond its original base in Australia to develop a good presence in the U.S. and Canada, is already seeing strong interest in the solution, which is the first of its type that Dropbox has certified.
Despite the continued improvement of security, a pair of new studies from Barracuda indicate continued end user problems, with spear phishing being a particular issue.
Channel veteran Frank Raimondi is now part of the Chargifi team, and talked with ChannelBuzz about the MSP market and its role in Chargifi’s expansion plans, as well as confirming the timeframe for Canadian distribution through Ingram Micro.
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.