Channel Communities

Agent

Sage makes multiple announcements at Barcelona channel event

November 7, 2025 Mark Cox 0
Key news items include the addition of a new agent, a Finance Intelligence Agent to power high-performance finance teams, and the launch of AI Developer Solutions, which is designed to accelerate partner-led innovation on the Sage Platform.

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Agent

SnapLogic expands platform capabilities, including updates around Agents, MCP, and AI governance, and adding SnapLogic Intelligent Modernizer (SLIM).

November 6, 2025 Mark Cox 0
All of this makes it easier and faster than ever for organizations to advance their journey toward becoming an Agentic Enterprise, where AI agents work alongside teams to enable continuous technical modernization, connecting, orchestrating, and governing digital workforces while ensuring the data they depend on is AI-ready, trusted, and accessible.

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Channel Communities

Netrio brings Bobby Hall on board to drive partner growth and expand Netrio Go-To-Market strategy

November 5, 2025 Mark Cox 0
Hall will report directly to Mike Cromwell, Chief Revenue Officer at Netrio, but the two of them will work together to make Netrio’s channel strategy as effective as possible.

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Artificial Intelligence

MSP-centric Guardz partners with  Check Point to embed their Harmony Email into the Guardz unified security platform

November 5, 2025 Mark Cox 0
The partnership enhances Guardz’s AI-native, unified cybersecurity platform with Check Point’s patented, inline API-based email protection engine, in order to provide MSPs with the industry’s most advanced email security solutions to improve operational efficiency.

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Agent

Axoniq launches unified platform to bring explainability to enterprise AI

November 4, 2025 Mark Cox 0
The new Axoniq platform, which just launched, preserves the contextual history of every business decision, in what the company says will close the Trust Gap for AI in complex and regulated industries.

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Channel Communities

Zscaler launches new innovations for advanced end-to-end monitoring, diagnostics, and remediation

November 4, 2025 Mark Cox 0
Cloud security vendor Zscaler has launched three major new Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) innovations that help enterprises monitor and fix performance issues faster, cut issue detection by 98% and resolve issues in minutes to strengthen SLAs and minimize downtime.

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Channel Communities

TD SYNNEX partners with IBM Cloudability to empower partners with cloud financial management

October 27, 2025 Mark Cox 0
Distributor TD SYNNEX has commenced a TD SYNNEX Global FinOps Practice powered by IBM Cloudability, which is targeted . The practice is geared at helping partners build their own practice with the assistance of Cloudability.

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Agent

Cyware, Microsoft launch strategic partnership integrating Microsoft Sentinel, Defender  and Cyware Intel Exchange

October 24, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cyware, Microsoft launch strategic partnership integrating Microsoft Sentinel, Defender  and Cyware Intel Exchange
This new partnership combines Microsoft Commercial Marketplace momentum with deep integrations across Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender and Cyware Intel Exchange to accelerate threat intelligence-driven detection, sharing and response.

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Agent

Archive360 collaborates with Microsoft to deliver agentic AI that provides eDiscovery and compliance for large organizations

October 22, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Archive360 collaborates with Microsoft to deliver agentic AI that provides eDiscovery and compliance for large organizations
This strategic collaboration integrates Archive360’s governed data platform with Microsoft Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models to enable sophisticated compliance and investigation workflows.

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Artificial Intelligence

Stibo Systems launches ProductGen AI with generative AI capability

October 17, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Stibo Systems launches ProductGen AI with generative AI capability
MDM specialist Stibo Systems’ ProductGen AI is a new generative AI capability embedded in the company’s Product Experience Data Cloud (PXDC) which moves MDM out of the back office and positions it as category-essential infrastructure powering digital commerce, sustainability, and AI adoption.

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Artificial Intelligence

Armis and Fortinet deepen strategic partnership around Armis Centrix platform and Fortinet Security Fabric

October 17, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Armis and Fortinet deepen strategic partnership around Armis Centrix platform and Fortinet Security Fabric
The alliance now covers eight integrations, covering all three of Fortinet’s core product lines, with the aim of eliminating blind spots, automating enforcement, and strengthening cyber resilience of their customers worldwide.

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Channel Communities

CyberArk enhances Machine Identity Security Portfolio with new discovery and context capabilities

October 17, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on CyberArk enhances Machine Identity Security Portfolio with new discovery and context capabilities
The new capabilities include improvements to CyberArk Secrets Hub, CyberArk Certificate Manager, SaaS, and CyberArk SSH Manager for Machines 

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Artificial Intelligence

JumpCloud and Google Workspace partner to launch new Work Transformation Set on Google

October 16, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on JumpCloud and Google Workspace partner to launch new Work Transformation Set on Google
Today, JumpCloud, which makes a zero trust unified cloud-based platform  for identity, device, and access management, is taking it to Google Workspace. The two companies have announced that JumpCloud is collaborating with Google Workspace to […]
Artificial Intelligence

NetApp strengthens enterprise-grade data platform to accelerate modern AI workloads

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp strengthens enterprise-grade data platform to accelerate modern AI workloads
The two big enhancements, both new, are exabyte-scale AFX systems with disaggregated storage, and an AI Data Engine built with NVIDIA, both of which deliver on NetApp’s AI vision.

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Artificial Intelligence

Barracuda improves AI-powered BarracudaONE Platform for MSPs

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda improves AI-powered BarracudaONE Platform for MSPs
The updates are purpose-built to help MSPs accelerate threat response across multi-tenant environments, simplify operations and drive scalable growth, and include bulk remediation for email threats, PSA integrations for automated billing and invoicing, and streamlined account management.

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Artificial Intelligence

GoTo and Nexthink ally to integrate Nexthink platform with LogMeIn Rescue in move that should please channel partners

October 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on GoTo and Nexthink ally to integrate Nexthink platform with LogMeIn Rescue in move that should please channel partners
The partnership enables a new integration between LogMeIn Rescue, GoTo’s enterprise-grade remote support tool, and the DEX-focused Nexthink Infinity platform, a partnership which will have significant implications for channel partners of both companies.

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Backup

Object First targets edge locations and smaller businesses with new Ootbi Mini immutable storage appliance

October 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Object First targets edge locations and smaller businesses with new Ootbi Mini immutable storage appliance
The Ootbi Mini broadens the market for Object First storage to ROBOs and smaller businesses, while also adding a honeypot feature and a beta for fleet managers which should appeal to MSPs in particular.

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Artificial Intelligence

MinIO adds  native Apache Iceberg support to its AIStor exascale object store with new Tables feature.

October 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on MinIO adds  native Apache Iceberg support to its AIStor exascale object store with new Tables feature.
The company says this key new capability establishes MinIO as the on-prem exascale AI Data Store for secure, sovereign, scalable enterprise AI.

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Channel Communities

New Halcyon channel chief Dave Pawlowski wants partners to brand Halcyon as go-to for ransomware protection

October 9, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Halcyon channel chief Dave Pawlowski wants partners to brand Halcyon as go-to for ransomware protection
Pawlowski, Halcyon’s newly appointed Worldwide Vice President of Channels and MSSP, lays out his plans to make Halcyon a dominant player specifically in the anti-ransomware space, partnering rather than competing with EDR companies, and getting channel partners and distribution  more involved.

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Channel Communities

Hitachi Vantara, Red Hat partner to combine Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Hitachi Vantara VSP One

October 9, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara, Red Hat partner to combine Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with Hitachi Vantara VSP One
In the latest installment of an alliance between Red Hat and Hitachi Vantara, the companies announced a new solution that combines Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, to make it easier for customers to adopt a unified, hybrid cloud platform.

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