The new Axcient program replaces a more informal one dating from the pre-merger eFolder days, and reflects the company’s growth and improved ability to provide more support for its partners.
Deep Multi-Factor Authentication extends the passwordless authentication that comes from a partnership with Secret Double Octopus
Pure and Cohesity have partnered around Pure FlashBlade before, but this is the first jointly engineered effort, and is backed by an integrated Go-to-Market strategy as well.
The news involves reworking Commvault Data Protection and Commvault Backup & Recovery into separate products with a suite option, bringing Hedvig technology into HyperScale, expanding Hedvig support for Kubernetes, further encouraging subscription pricing, and positioning the Metallic SaaS offering to go upmarket and address the enterprise as well as the midmarket.
The new offering is a bundle of existing components, adding Acronis Backup and a choice of partner VDI offerings to the Scale HC3 platform, but it is purpose-built for organizations looking to protect home-based workforces.
Commvault global channel chief Mercer Rowe discusses why Commvault reworked its channel program just a year after they remade it last year, and why he believes the changes will incent better partner performance.
While Metallic’s control plane was built on Azure, the Go-to-Marketing and engineering issues that have been announced around Azure are new.
NewCloud brings Pax8 MSPs cloud storage and compute resources to support Veeam Cloud Connect, as well as simplification of Veeam licensing.
The enhancements to the new release of StorageCraft’s flagship data protection software are focused on filling in small gaps and connecting dots, to allow MSPs to use it as a single platform to cover all business continuity use cases.
Going forward, Veeam’s acquisition by Insight is projected to make even more resources available for channel enablement than before.
Updates were announced for Veeam Backup for Office 365, Veeam Backup for AWS and Veeam Availability Orchestrator and a sneak preview was given for Veeam Availability Suite v11, including something about Macs.
Cohesity offers partners the ability to use the pricing model preferred by most service providers, as they expand their MSP channel both upmarket to large telcos and downmarket to MSPs who serve the SMB and midmarket.
HYCU broadens its partner program to reflect the extension of its cloud partnering strategy since it introduced its Protégé multi-cloud program.
Manoj Nair, who took over as GM of Metallic in May, talks with ChannelBuzz about the launch in Canada, and what the plans are for Metallic beyond that.
Clumio is offering free support for operational recovery, which is typically used in DevTest environments, to highlight that it fits in to what they say is a more holistic data protection strategy than competitors.
Smallvbusiness-focused OneXafe Solo just came to General Availability, while ShadowXafe came to market in 2018, and its absence from Pax8’s line card until now has a story behind it.
Rubrik’s first global customer event – virtualized by the pandemic – emphasized their vision for data management and how their applications fit into it, befitting the goal of a younger company to make itself and its value proposition better known.
Acronis expects most MSPs to move from Backup to Cyber Protect, and is offering a promo through the end of July to encourage this.
While Clumio started doing VMware backup, and has added AWS to that, Microsoft 365 is the first major application they have added, with their long-term vision being a very broad workload support as part of a single service.
Some Atera MSPs were already using Acronis, and had asked for this integration to let them management the backup within the Atera management system.
