The Qualys data will strengthen the microsegmentation capabilities of the Illumio platform, which maps out the relationships between applications, and programs security enforcement to defend against threats which breach the perimeter.
Trend Micro also announced a free phishing simulator for business, as well as their participation in a new vendor alliance that pledges to customers it will not assist any government in offensive cyber-operations.
The Commvault enhancement allows the indexing and searching of OneDrive for Business documents saved on Azure Stack hybrid clouds, something that will have strong relevance for compliance use cases.
The first two services around the new Cyxtera Extensible Data Center Platform are on demand connectivity and compute, with the latter enabled through a partnership with Nutanix.
The changes include better definition of tiers and requirements to advance, new competencies in all the Dell Boomi solution areas, and much better partner accessibility to resources.
Building on their cloud momentum after the integration of Skyhigh and their Security Cloud, McAfee also announced container support for their cloud workload security offering, and released a survey tracking trends in cloud usage.
StorONE, run by the same team as StorWIZE that IBM bought in 2010, has a 100 per cent channel strategy and is in partner recruitment mode. They expect the partnership with Mellanox will make them appeal to Mellanox partners as well.
New offerings include a separate cloud sandbox solution and an endpoint detection and response product, the latter being a first for ESET. ESET Remote Administrator is also being replaced with a new enterprise grade management tool.
Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence [IAI] makes monitoring and diagnosis of equipment and operational issues in industrial IoT environments much easier, and while initially a limited group of SI partners will take part, Splunk sees it as having broader channel applicability down the line.
Netsurion is looking to an integrated solution set of SD-WAN with SIEM and firewall security to significantly expand their TAM into new verticals, and is seeking to significantly expand their partner base to strengthen them in these new markets.
Cisco announces it will make its routing portfolio available on a subscription basis, and on a promo basis, will make ISR hardware free for customers with a five-year subscription.
Diamanti quickly adopted an all-channel go-to-market in the face of resellers looking for a turnkey enterprise container management solution, and now has introduced a program to support what will start off as a select value channel.
Part of the expanded services play is a new certification program to train HP print partners how to better sell security related solutions, and understand and recommend third party security integrations.
The UD 7, which serves the higher end of the thin client market with more demanding graphics requirement, also will feature the new Secure Boot validation IGEL just announced had been received for their OS.