The bundled offering, which will go to market through the companies’ joint channel partners, is seen as a particularly strong offering in ICS and IoT environments.
The follow-up to last year’s original ThinkSmart Hub 500, which was for Skype for Business, continues Lenovo’s strategy of building out their Smart Office portfolio, and in the teams space in particular.
Check Point sees CloudGuard Log.ic as an ideal product for MSSPs, and it was designed out of the gate for that market.
The new changes to the Netskope partner program are the latest in a series of initiatives designed to deepen training and affiliated resources, particularly around the cloud.
The Orca technology is based on its ability to provide full stack visibility into an organization’s complete cloud footprint, through a simple integration into the cloud infrastructure layer that can assess the security state of every discovered asset within a couple of minutes.
CIRA has now deployed an API for its D-Zone DNS Firewall, and integrated it with Ottawa-based Field Effect Software’s monitoring and analysis platform, in what CIRA hopes will be the first of many such partnerships.
The new portfolio is targeted at the sub-100 market, although it can scale higher than that, and will go to market solely through channel partners.
The new model, designed for a single processor Lenovo SR250 server, is aimed at chains with very small deployments which typically have been using a PC at these remote sites.
Merlin will run Cyber Observer’s sales and distribution in North America, in addition to leading their $8 million Series B funding round.
This partnership, which is of great strategic importance to Open Systems, coincides with their making a major push into the North American market through a channel-focused strategy.
Information Builder Summit this year did not see any splashy new technological announcements or partnerships, but there were some significant new items, with some still in tech preview.
Unstructured Data Management-as-a-Service adds former Qumulo channel leader Jim Choumas as Vice President of Channel, while channel veteran Leonard Iventosch becomes Chief Channel Advisor.
The enhancements to the StaffConnect platform make the management capability much more flexible and granular, which is of particular importance to larger customers.
The deal reunites SonicWall with old partner Secure Designs Inc., and expands their channel with a different type of partner than those which they typically work with.
The key theme stressed by Vella, in his first presentation at the company’s big customer event since replacing the founder and longtime CEO this year, is that Information Builders is committed to redesigning processes that allow for true scalability by ensuring data is trusted, so that tools will actually be used.
A highlight is a new War Room module designed to facilitate crisis management by letting the SOC collaborate easily with other parts of the company, like PR, legal, and the CEO.
The new product, sold only through the channel and available as an Express Pack, isn’t bringing NetApp down into the SMB space, but is rather aimed at customers with predictable environments.
The SDK is part and parcel of AtScale’s move to a more agile quarterly release cycle. The platform also improves analytical query and security capabilities.
New biometric multi-factor authentication, and Dynamic Perimeter geofencing are the two new security capabilities.
New channel chief Eddie DeWolfe said that while Fidelis has not been consistent on channel policy in the past, the company’s new CEO and executive team is now firmly committed to being channel focused.
