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Email-based attacks have been around for more than 30 years, but are still at the forefront of most security breaches. Barracuda MSP’s Mark Ballegeer talks about the evolution of email attacks, and what MSPs can do about it, in this edition of the podcast.
PG Menon of Infoblox shares how partners can help enterprises better enforce corporate compliance and policies by blocking access to unauthorized DoH resolvers in a number of different ways.
Company co-CEOs and co-founders Peter and Matthew Cassars reviewed additions to SherWeb’s capabilities since last year’s event, and also announced the availability of one of their in-house solutions, Performance Cloud, which is powered by VMware.
The Partner Summit itself, the first since Extreme remodelled its channel organization to work within regional units, got feedback on the changes and the direction of Extreme’s channel strategy.
Datto’s Rob Rae sees Datto’s successful going public on Wednesday as a significant plus for Datto MSP partners because it strengthens both the company and the MSP business as a whole.
Splunk’s .conf20 was virtual this year, which fundamentally changes how partners approach an event, but the themes of interest to the channel this year are the same as if the event had been physical.
Project APEX is a vision of consolidating Dell’s cloud and as-a-service strategies, but new product is coming. The Cloud Console that will manage everything starts public preview today, and it and a new Storage as-a-Service offering on it will GA the first half of next year.
Digitalware sees their new offering as unique in the market, because while many types of offerings do some of what they do, no one does all of it.
HYCU expects that the significant enhancement in the support they now provide for SAP HANA in Google Cloud will further enhance that solution’s strong momentum, which they announced was 600% year-on-year growth.
ESET Canada channel leader Cam Leetham discusses how parnters’ security practices and strategies have changed as a result of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to several significant announcements, which include the new Splunk Observability Suite, Splunk also announced the acquisitions of two companies, Plumbr and Rigor, whose technology will rapidly be integrated into that suite.
In a preview to his keynote today at the Acronis Global Cyber Summit, Serguei Beloussov said that traditional backup and traditional resellers are obsolete in a world of cloud and MSPs, and Acronis is expanding its infrastructure and partner enablement to respond to that change.
The new TrueNAS SCALE rounds out the company’s software options, while the R-Series, which addresses non-mission critical use cases, and can still scale to huge capacities when paired with the HCI software, adds to the hardware options.
The ONTAP changes are highly significant and include the addition of both continuous data availability and S3 object services.
The new training, which has been redesigned to be both massively scalable and capable of being deeply personalized, will be free in 2020 for existing Acronis partners.
Education has been turned on its head by the response to the pandemic. Katina Papulkas of Dell Technologies offers some thoughts on how embracing the ideas of esports can get students more engaged.
In addition to their Prisma Cloud 2.0 announcement, Palo Alto Networks has announced the availability of their first Canadian-based cloud region.
