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Jean-Ian Boutin of ESET’s Montreal research centre joins the podcast to discuss Lojax, the first UEFI-infecting malware, and what solution providers need to know about this new type of attack.
Scott Strubel, Commvault’s vice president of worldwide channels discusses the impact of the recent changes to Commvault’s channel operations, and what still remains to be done.
Red Hat is in the middle of a journey to change how it segments and goes to market in SME. It shared its plans, and where it needs help from partners, at this week’s North American Partner Conference.
Red Hat’s CIO says partners who approach customers’ CIOs with the dazzle of digital transformation will fail, while those who show empathy for CIOs’ challenges — and offer a path forward — will win the day.
MSSP partnerships are critical to Carbon Black’s go-to-market, and their partnership with Secureworks, which is one of their oldest, has now been extended.
In what CEO Bob Hammer calls the key to Commvault’s strategy, the company has expanded its appliance from the original model into a full family, with a smaller one node offering for remote offices below it in the market, and a much denser model for larger deployments.
Commvault’s senior executives kicked off their opening keynote at Commvault GO on Wednesday, and while they introduced several new solutions, the highlight was their new Command Center interface.
BI provider Looker is kicking off their JOIN 2018 event in San Francisco with the launch of the latest version of their platform
Red Hat sees opportunity for partners as more customers come to the open source software giant seeking help with their own digital transformation strategies.
Lexmark has reoriented its channel to add a strong SMB focus to their historic focus on the high end of the channel space, with a new branded line covering the whole gamut of the product line, with channel-friendly pricing and policies.
The new Caringo single server offering, which is aimed at smaller and midsize intense data users like media post-production houses, is likely to be the most interesting thing here to channel partners.
Zerto 6.5 has new feature enhancements, which will be of particular interest to Cloud Service Providers, but the most significant news here is more likely the continued moves towards their upcoming version, which they see as a massively disruptive offering.
Nozomi Networks is an ICS startup with a lot of momentum, and in a world where IT and OT are increasingly converging, is deepening its IT strategic and channel partnerships to wind up on what they think will inevitably be the winning side.
Commvault is making several extremely significant strategic partnership announcements at their GO event. The one with HPE extends an existing relationship, so in terms of new business, may not be as significant in terms of new revenues, but it is still important as clear statement of their go-to-market strategy.
Sophos supplements their Intercept X Advanced deep learning offering with EDR investigation and response capability, designed to save larger companies with SOCs time with EDR that is relatively easy to use, while giving partners downmarket access to the technology, particularly through MSPs. It is now in the early access stage.
The joint solution is targeted at larger customers, and will initially go to market through a select number of the two companies’ joint channel partners, before having its availability broadened out subsequently.
The newly announced ones are the Voyager 4200 UC, aimed at the ‘corridor warrior,’ and the Savi 8200, which extends the range of the Plantronics line that supports deskphones, mobile phones and PCs. They also recently announced the Elara 60 series, which is a mobile phone station.
