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Barracuda rebrands an improved version of the Managed Workplace RMM product they acquired from Avast in 2019 as Barracuda RMM, and delivers the multi-tenanted version of CloudGen Access they promised when ZTNA vendor Fyde was acquired in November.
Major new innovations include Creator Workflows, a low-code app tool which becomes the fourth member of ServiceNow’s Workflow portfolio, and new AI-based ITOM Predictive AIOps, AI Search and Virtual Agent tools.
Zerto is announcing a series of interrelated changes involving new rebates, deal registration, and more strategic partner management, with the goal being to encourage partners to work more closely with Zerto.
Longtime Cisco Canada channel exec Rebecca Leach discusses her new role heading up AppDynamics in this country, what the company’s looking for in a partner, and where it sees the biggest opportunities in this edition of the podcast.
Fortinet’s big product news, the launch of FortOS 7.0, actually took place a month ago, although its importance meant it was strongly emphasized at the event, but their channel announcements, including new specializations and the expansion of consumption-based billing to new products, were new.
Some perpetrators of online crime and fraud don’t use advanced methods to profit at the expense of unsuspecting victims and to avoid getting caught, ESET’s Jake Moore explains
Algoblu uses some novel hardware-centric technology to virtualize the network, enabling telcos to pool network resources and splice them into separate SLA levels that allow more customized service levels. They are just starting to build out their North American channel, which in China consists of telcos, MSPs and CSPs.
The first formal integration between Qumulo and Commvault came at the request of customers who had been making do-it-yourself integrations, which will work much better now that the joint solution has been properly integrated and optimized.
EPOS, which took the US and gaming products in the 2020 split of Sennheiser, had never had a structured overall program in the Sennheiser days, but has reworked the program, believing that was necessary to scale their growth.
Vade Secure, which has over a billion mailboxes under management, mainly through ISP partnerships that also give them data for a very strong filter, came into the North American market last year, and is targeting SMB-focused MSPs.
Equinix Metal launches with integrations from hardware providers Dell and Pure storage, and with software ones from Mirantis Container Cloud and Cohesity Helios, but they expect many more beyond these early adopters.
iXsystems’ open source storage model both facilitates the economics of the new program, and brings in leads that their internal people nurture until they are ready to close, then pass them on to partners who have brought in a deal of equivalent value.
The HPE SimpliVity 4.1.0 release also provides new container integration with the Kubernetes CSI Plugin for HPE SimpliVity.
MSP Foundations is an eight-week long instructor-led course offered through Pax8 Academy, the first of multiple such courses which the cloud distributor plans to roll out this year.
James Chalmers, territory channel manager for Canada at Kaspersky Lab joins the podcast to take a look back at 2020 and preview what’s to come in 2021.
As Webex gains the ability to translate from English to 108 languages, Cisco exec Jeetu Patel details the philosophy and direction behind developing the collaboration platform.
Infocyte adds a Microsoft 365 protection solution to their platform to fill what partners had said was the biggest gap in the need for a solution that was both effective and easy to use.
