Artificial Intelligence

ServiceNow San Diego release emphasizes increased productivity from Next Experience interface redesign

San Diego also upgrades the Now platform’s RPA bots, and introduces three new out-of-the-box solutions for specific verticals

Salt Security unveils improved channel program, new channel chief

Jon Peppler, Salt’s new Vice President of Worldwide Channels, sees extraordinary growth in the API Security market as almost certain, and that an enhanced channel program is needed to help partners meet demand.

Zoho adds new apps, services and platform enhancements to Zoho One

Zoho’s new enhancements to their business operating system with over 50 apps continues their quest to more full integrate them, so that they effectively operate as one united system.

Analytics and data science enhancements highlight changes to TIBCO Predict and Unify portfolios

These changes are especially significant for channel partners, and coincide with an intensification of TIBCO’s channel strategy also announced at the event.

Hitachi Vantara launches Lumada DataOps Suite

The formal launch of the DataOps Suite, following a soft launch in late 2020, marks the integration of Hitachi Vantara’s data products into a single microservices-based architecture.

Ivanti strengthens patch management with RiskSense acquisition

RiskSense adds risk-based prioritization drawn from a red team attackers’ perspective, to complement the existing Ivanti technology and provide a more well-founded solution.

Zoho introduces self-service Business Intelligence Platform

Zoho’s new platform combines an enhanced version of their existing Zoho Analytics solution with Zoho DataPrep, a new offering which provides data cleansing capabilities.

Five key MSP growth areas in the evolving economy

Midwestern MSP Aunalytics identifies the key trends they are seeing in managed services today, and what areas of their practice are increasing as a result.

Hitachi Vantara improves Lumada use cases and ability to handle dynamic data with io-Tahoe acquisition

The acquired technology’s ability to expand the use cases around Lumada will also expand channel partners’ services opportunities.

HPE CEO Neri ties vision into new product announcements at HPE Discover

HPE’s CEO discussed how the new announcements around HPE Lighthouse, Project Aurora, Silicon on-Demand and compute as-a-service drives HPE’s vision forward, and also commented on their just announced acquisition of DeterminedAI.

Western Digital unveils new Ultrastar Edge server family

Two versions of the new AI and machine learning-heavy servers for edge environments were announced, a balanced commercial version and a more rugged military spec version, but different versions for more specific use cases are likely going forward.

TIBCO enhances and integrates Predict portfolio for improved hyperconverged experience

The Spotfire, Streaming and Data Science solutions have been more deeply integrated on TIBCO’s platform, which improves customer time to value, and has channel partners enthusiastic.

RPA vendor Blue Prism outlines vision, product refresh at Blue Prism World

Blue Prism kicked off the first day of their three day virtual event by articulating their view of where software robotics is headed, and unveiling the new Blue Prism v7.

Aunalytics launches first Alliance Partner Program to highlight and support their analytics integrations

Aunalytics’ first program for strategic partners includes major ISVs, but also MSPs and other partners with joint solutions based on deep technical integrations.

Lenovo targets growing AI market in mainstream enterprises with five new ready to deploy AI solutions

The emphasis with the five new offerings, using technology from Addfor, Everseen, cnvrg.io, SAS and NetApp, is on the solutions’ ease of deployment, removing a barrier that has stymied many enterprises from getting AI products into production.

Aunalytics unveils first of new vertical custom platforms, Daybreak, for financial services

Daybreak provides Insight-as-a-Service to smaller banks and credit unions who lack the data scientists and budget to do this themselves. It’s the first of what will be a series of industry-specific platforms based on Aunalytics’ core engine.

COVID’s impact on the Channel in Canada: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

A study commissioned by Intel specifically in Canada found that most channel partners have suffered from the pandemic. There was a fair amount of optimism for the year ahead however, although many partners said they need help to realize emerging opportunities in the cloud, IoT and AI.

Speed major theme of ServiceNow Quebec release, through expanded AI, and new low-code app development tools

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.

New Redis Labs Chief Business Development Officer views channel as key to expanding AI and machine learning Go-to-Market

Taimur Rashid, who joins Redis from Microsoft, talks with ChannelBuzz about his plans to expand the company’s business in the AI space, which he said is still very small compared to its total potential.

NVIDIA introduces NVIDIA-Certified Systems program to identify systems validated on accelerated AI workloads

The first 13 systems from five OEMs to be certified have been announced, but NVIDIA expects that before long, about 70 systems from 15 OEMs will meet their engineering requirements for certification.