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ECi, which acquired ERP vendor Macola last year, has made another acquisition relevant to their Manufacturing Division, purchasing Vineyardsoft, whose KnowledgeSync product was already being used by Macola and every other member of the Division. Vineyardsoft sold entirely through channels, and the plan is to expand those channels further.
The acquisition immensely strengthens Kaseya’s compliance offerings, and they immediately announced a new compliance solution from the RapidFire technology, which was sufficiently important that they delayed announcement of the acquisition for two months, until the new product was ready.
Supermicro and Samsung will jointly promote the new server aggressively because of its specific customization for the new Samsung SSDs.
Trend Micro recently made multiple announcements around different elements of their IoT strategy, with a new program that leverages and publicizes Trends vulnerability research to provide IoT device makers with risk assessment services before they go to market being particularly important.
Infoblox already has a significant number of MSP partners, and their focus has been primarily on the enterprise, but the new consumption-based pricing option is much more attractive if they are also pushing downmarket into the midmarket and the SMB.
Ken Patterson, who has over 20 years experience working for MSPs, will run the new Boot Camp series of education-focused road shows, and provide a more technically-focused Pax8 resource available at the shows they attend.
The “Driven” program for Cisco Meraki is the first program D&H has offered specifically for Cisco Meraki, and includes measures to make it easier for small VARs to become certified on Meraki, and make more money once they are.
The new capabilities come from the Proofpoint acquisition of Wombat Security earlier this year, and significantly beef up what had been Proofpoint’s TRAP automation platform.
The GTDC, which articulates the value of distribution to IT vendors, starts its most popular event tomorrow in San Francisco, in the midst of an expansion of their distribution members, and with the massive changes to the market meaning somewhat surprising good news for a very old product category, as well as for smaller VARs.
Sennheiser is targeting the burgeoning unified collaboration market for headsets with a type of competitor displacement promo which is a first for the company in North America in recent memory.
Nutanix follows up their certification on SAP HANA non-production environments in June with the expected – but still very important – announcement that they have now been certified for SAP HANA production environments as well.
Cisco and Veeam partnered around HyperFlex over a year ago around a direct snapshot integration for HyperFlex primary storage. Now they are extending that partnership with a new integration on the secondary side that leverages enhancements made in HyperFlex 3.0.
Lenovo and Pivot3 are formally announcing their Smart City initiative, which has already been operational in the field, with a number of significant customer wins.
LAS VEGAS — Pat Gelsinger does not have a lot nice to say about the state of security. In his VMworld 2018 keynote here, VMware’s CEO called the state of security “broken today” because “the industry got it wrong” in trying to bolt on security, and, as he puts it, “chasing bad.” “We’re spending more,…
The IoT bundles are designed to give resellers an easy turnkey option, and encourage more of them to get into IoT. Nine bundles, each focused on a specific vendor, are scheduled for launch, with more coming down the road.
As it launches its VMware on AWS infrastructure offering Australia, VMware sets a target Canadian launch for the first quarter of 2019, and the Canadian team says the timing is ideal for market maturity and demand.
There were few – actually no – major Dell EMC new product announcements made around their cloud infrastructure portfolio at VMworld. There were a lot of little ones, however, as well as some overarching messaging about focus and strategy.
