Artificial Intelligence

Blue Prism unveils Service Assist digital workforce solution for contact centres

Blue Prism sees the new offering as filling a major void in an important market, and as providing a good opportunity for channel partners who work the contact centre market.

WekaIO expands addressable market, partner opportunity, with Kubernetes CSI plugin

WekaIO’s high performance file system has primarily sold to universities and very large enterprises with AI initiatives, but they see the new plug-in as helping address AI initiatives more broadly in the Fortune 2000.

Netenrich bolsters security credentials with new Attack Surface Intelligence offering and free global threat intelligence feed

Knowledge Now, the free global threat intelligence tool, is designed to provide actionable intelligence, while Attack Surface Intelligence provides a hacker’s view of the customer’s environment, and indicating problem areas and how to fix them.

BigPanda expands channel ecosystem with additional personnel and resources

The new resources include two net new Alliance Director positions, which are being filled by Nisa Spyker, who comes from Cisco and Matt Biehler, who has had partner management roles at Bluecore and Datadog.

Ivanti unveils new Ivanti Neurons AI platform for remote workforce

Ivanti Neurons uses what the company terms hyper-automation using AI and  many types of bots to provide a secure, self-healing Autonomous Edge for remote workers.

Aparavi pivots with new data management platform with Azure and Microsoft CSP focus

The new Aparavi, The Platform, has a more robust set of data intelligence and automation capabilities than their original offering.

Automation Anywhere addresses business resilience issues with new RPA announcements

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated existing trends towards automation, but now that much of the work of responding to the new work situations is created has been done, Automation Anywhere looked to future issues around workplace resiliency at their virtualized customer event.

Aruba introduces new Aruba ESP Edge Services Platform

In addition to the new AI-powered ESP platform with predictive capabilities, Aruba has enhanced their Aruba Central network management to provide unified single pane of glass management, at scale.

Dell unveils new Dell EMC Ready solutions to spur AI in VMware environments

The channel will be the primary seller of these new solutions, which leverage the Bitfusion technology VMware acquired last year, and which has now been incorporated into vSphere.

CommScope announces new AI-powered RUCKUS Analytics cloud service

The new RUCKUS Analytics service, which supports on-prem as well as public and private clouds, adds new capabilities around prioritizing incidents, troubleshooting and health monitoring, compared to what was offered before.

ServiceNow adds Now Intelligence analytics to its platform with Orlando release

Now Intelligence consists of both new and enhanced features around the AI and analytics theme, in the same way some past releases have emphasized the enhancement of a related series of capabilities.

WekaIO launches first partner program to scale out high-perfomance parallel file system business

WekaIO, which today is also announcing a first-place finish for performance in the IO-500 Challenge, is looking to its new program’s enablement resources to drive partner expansion in specific verticals.

DataVisor launches channel program around unsupervised machine learning fraud detection solution

DataVisor has a differentiated unsupervised machine learning solution, with the initial Go-to-Market being focused on systems integrators and strategic vendor partners.

BlackBerry Cylance looking to MSP business, new products to help drive 2020 growth

It has been an eventful year for Cylance, following its acquisition by BlackBerry. May Mitchell talks with ChannelBuzz about the year coming to a close, and what to look for next year.

SAS Toronto event focuses on overcoming hurdles to successful customer AI projects

SAS partners played a bigger role than ever in the event this year, as SAS continues to move beyond its legacy direct sales days and invest more in its channel.

SwiftStack upgrades platform for Big Data and advanced machine learning with SwiftStack 7

Both the enhancements to the core platform and services around it have a strong emphasis on increasing performance and AI at the edge.