DataStax, which was the driver in building Apache Cassandra, makes major changes to the platform for the first time in their commercial product, to make it more enterprise-friendly by dramatically upgrading performance and removing manual work.
As SAS seeks to add AI to all its analytics offerings, it says partners play an important role in connecting those smart systems with domain and business expertise.
Tech Data Canada has brought its subscription model for endpoint devices and related sofware and services, introduced earlier this year in the U.S., north of the border.
The channel businesses within HP’s Graphics Solutions portfolio leverages highly-specialized partners. HP, however, believes that the opportunity in this area is immense, and wants to bring more partners in, particularly from A3 printing.
HP isn’t just driving more business through the channel, but is also making changes in how it interacts with it, something which it is better able to do as a more focused company.
The program’s highlight is a fast track program to recruit high skill – not necessarily top tier – Microsoft partners by providing them with the Ziften program’s top tier benefits for a year.
HP made its first announcement of a consumer product family at a channel event, as it expects the channel will sell almost all of these new rigs, and while much of it will go through etailers and retailers, there is a VAR channel play here as well.
It’s only six weeks until the GDPR is scheduled to become operative, and Absolute has found that so many organizations are still so unprepared that even at this late date, it behooves them to introduce new readiness assessments – which their partners will be able to leverage.
HP celebrated a very strong year with their top partners at the company’s Executive Forum, outlining the direction of their strategy, and the role of the channel in it.
On the pure productivity side, Kaspersky Lab has upgraded its flagship product’s scalability, doubling the number of endpoints it can support per server, and more than doubling performance.
DataCore has a new CEO, Dave Zabrowski, and a new CMO, Gerardo Dada. They were brought in to drive the company to a leadership position that has eluded the company to date, and discuss with ChannelBuzz their strategy to bring this about.
This fourth partnering between DNS-focused Infoblox and different McAfee solutions plugs a specific hole around DNS security that is not dealt with natively by most broad security software vendors.
The McAfee integration with IBM Resilient IRP is available now, and will soon be complemented by full certification of interoperability, which will provider customers and partners with even more value.
SAS executives say the company is moving towards the channel — and how it’s building out its Internet of Things business may show what that movement looks like.