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Lenovo’s ThinkSystem servers have long been certified on SAP HANA, but this is the first certification of their ThinkAgile HCI line with Nutanix, which they see as both a strong validation that HCI is ready for the enterprise, and a great market opportunity.
HYCU was created to develop and sell a custom-built backup solution for Nutanix, and this new program is designed to parallel the go-to-market strategy for the upper SMB and midmarket that Nutanix launched with their Velocity program in June.
Pax8 bolsters MSP choices in email archiving and Office 365 backup with Dropsuite, while emphasizing that they have some technology and pricing features that partners should find attractive.
Kaspersky Web Traffic Security is a complete rewrite of the code base of the prior application in the Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway, which adds additional security engines and the latest machine learning and deep learning technologies.
TP-Link adds a new cloud controller to the Omada line they introduced almost a year ago. Aimed at SMBs, the Omada family is a hybrid cloud platform to manage decentralized wireless networks.
Lexmark has unveiled three new Lexmark Cloud Services on a new purpose-built cloud platform, with more services to come. While one service, Lexmark Cloud Print Management, is direct, the other two are channel, provided free for partners to offer, and where they fully control the contracting with the customer.
Trend Micro has opened its second Canadian research centre, a 22,000 square foot facility in Toronto’s Liberty Village. The space will be used to dissect threat, and to host partner and customer meetings and events.
Veritas introduced Garth Scully as new Canadian country manager and Rita Loncar as new Canadian channel chief as it sets out on a new strategy that gives the Canadian organization more autonomy.
Red Hat Canada boss Luc Villeneuve has spent the last few years investing in his partners, and now he’s seeing partners returning the favour, helping to drive significant growth for the open-source giant.
NetApp asked its partners to place bets this year on the cloud, on HCI and on all-flash, with the first two acknowledged as being a significant ask for some partners. Almost two quarters in, the company said that results so far have been good.
NetApp made a flurry of announcements on Wednesday at Insight extending their data fabric, with special relevance to developers and architects, emphasizing their cloud-first focus, and articulating their hybrid and multi-cloud proposition.
NetApp introduced multiple announcements upgrading their data fabric on Wednesday, with the most interesting likely being the availability of the technology they acquired with Plexistor in 2017 that uses persistent memory to generate ultra-low latency and much higher performance.
Although Canadian businesses have lagged their counterparts south of the border in the move to the cloud, McAfee Canada head Bryan Rutledge says the company’s cloud-first Mvision shift is well-timed for Canadian partners.
While digital transformation has become a motherhood term in the tech industry, NetApp CEO George Kurian kicked off the opening keynote at NetApp Insight by saying NetApp is now emphasizing that successful digital transformation requires adherence to four core principles.
NetApp is touting the new Azure NetApp Files as a huge extension of their Microsoft relationship, which gives them a level of integration with their Azure cloud that Microsoft has not done before with anyone. Other announcements include the General Availability of NetApp Cloud Insights, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and new ONTAP support for NetApp HCI.
TeamViewer has many customers, but hasn’t had much relevance for the channel in North America until this year, when they fundamentally reshaped their go-to-market approach to offer channel partners a solutions focus that the company thinks they will find attractive.
In addition to expanding their capability for the customer to access file data in object clouds, Komprise announced support for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
