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Cisco adds wireless to the Catalyst 9000 family for the first time, while a new SME- and branch-focused switch could end up running one in four ports worldwide, an executive says.
Converge has acquired five solution providers over the last year, including Ottawa’s Northern Micro, and three in the U.S. They have secured a listing on the Toronto Venture Exchange through amalgamation with a shell company, and have an ambitious plan to expand, which includes many more acquisitions.
Enhancements in Rubrik’s latest release include certification for SAP HANA, instant recovery capabilities for Oracle database instant recovery and improved Microsoft Office 365 protection on the Rubrik Polaris SaaS platform.
Unlike at the ConnectWise spring event, StorageCraft announced no new integrations at the fall event last week. The ConnectWise relationship remains critical to StorageCraft however, as they evolve their business models and practices to keep up with changes in the market.
Riverbed is also making OPEX-based subscription pricing available as an option for the SteelHead SD, bringing it in line with other appliances.
Partners who embrace software development are growing their bookings 10 per cent faster than the average, and are more completely representing the Cisco portfolio, says Cisco Devnet boss Susie Wee.
Cisco’s collaboration team kicks off a busy Partner Summit with new collaboration dongle for any screen, a smaller room-based telepresence package, and the integration of cloud calling into Webex Teams.
The Custom SSL branding overcomes an issue where browsers give insecure warnings when the customer accesses IT Glue documents. Initially, the branding is just for public documents, but will eventually cover everything.
By integrating much of its security stack into its ISR routers and introducing application-specific boosts for Office 365, Cisco is hoping to remove the need for customers to make tradeoffs between security and performance in the rapidly-growing SD-WAN market.
Advances from both the 802.11ax technology and Aruba’s own IP add new power management and IoT capabilities to the new APs.
Cylance has made their first partnership with an RMM vendor, integrating their two flagship products into ConnectWise Automate. They have plans to expand this ecosystem further.
SonicWall also makes several other announcements, with the common theme being the extension of the company’s hybrid cloud portfolio and capabilities.
XM Cyber is a startup with a differentiated platform that they describe as a ‘game-changer’ product, that simulates cyber-attacks along the entire attack path to an organization’s critical assets, and then provides actionable remediation.
AutoElevate brings a solution more commonly associated with the high end of the market to the MSP space, with full multi-tenanted and mobile capabilities.
Cisco Canada’s Wayne Cuervo discusses how its network of Innovation Centres work, and how channel partners can benefit from a lift in building new solutions by connecting with them.
ConnectWise stressed two main themes at their IT Nation Event in Orlando – the need to further empower MSPs, and the need for MSPs to develop their security capabilities. Those two themes were closely intertwined, as ConnectWise is rolling out multiple tools and programs to enhance both, with more to come.
SherWeb’s first RMM integration, with ConnectWise, is scheduled to go live in Q1 of next year, a major step for the Cloud Services Provider, who previously had no direct integration with ConnectWise.
