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eSentire sold its SaaS-based cybersecurity solutions direct until a couple years ago, when they added referral partners. Now they have expanded their channel program to include MSPs and resellers, and partnered with Ingram Micro to add the focused partners they want.
Check Point SandBlast Agent both protects mobile devices from zero day attacks, and provides an automated report and tools to remediate it. Check Point will also soon be introducing certifications for the channel specifically for SandBlast.
Technology from the newly announced acquisition of PSA provider Vorex upgrades Kaseya PSA tools, and propels a takeaway offer aimed at customers of competing solutions.
Significant enhancements to Sales Cloud and a new field Service component for Service Cloud will be available in new Lightning versions available this spring, in Salesforce’s second quarter.
Lenovo channel chief Sammy Kinlaw said raising System x server sales is his top priority for the year, as some partners still don’t sell these at all.
The Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform, a new, next-generation technology, leverages technology acquired with Pentaho last year to provide an appliance that is aimed at Big Data, Data Lake and Internet of Things use cases now, and at broader use cases once an all-flash version is available later this year.
Alex Hoff on Auvik’s first year in the managed services arena and what it sees coming through 2016 in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.
ChannelBuzz has learned that Walter Andri, who has been President and Managing Director at Avaya Canada, is leaving the company. Andri, who had been senior vice president of sales at Primus Telecommunications Canada, joined Avaya a little under a year ago, in late February 2015. His telco background made him highly attractive to Avaya, which…
Ottawa’s Combat Networks won the Networking Partner of the Year award from Avaya. The solution provider, which has a deep Avaya practice, also listened closely to the details about Avaya’s strategy and approach going forward.
After a long restructuring, Avaya now has its two core next-gen offerings available, and has a systematic and well thought out plan to take them to market, leveraging both its channel and internal resources better than in the past. They still have to execute on these better than in the past however.
While Avaya is not contemplating adding or dropping any distribution partners, it is working on restructuring their compensation model, to encourage them to fulfil the role Avaya wants them to play in their new go-to-market strategy.
The Dell One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Passwords offering becomes the first Dell IAM offering to be available to partners out of the gate.
New wizards and additional recovery options are also aimed at helping partners sell Arcserve UDP to larger customers than before.
Enhancements to Avaya’s program are intended to be non-disruptive while also allowing more rewards to be targeted to strategic areas. The company also pledged to be a better partner than it has been in the past.
Avaya has reorganized its marketing strategies to emphasize joint go-to-marketing initiatives with partners, with an emphasis on obtaining case studies for customers.
Santiago Aguirre, who adds Canada to his Caribbean and Latin American responsibilities, says this will leverage regional strength to strengthen Avaya in Canada, and that he won’t be disrupting Auld’s work in Canada.
Westcon’s Comstor group teams with Polycom to offer cloud-based video-as-a-service that solution providers can offer under its GoldSeal services label.
