Phil Vokins, cloud services director for Intel Americas, joins us on the podcast to discuss the chipmaker’s Path to Cloud video series, all things cloud security, and what solution providers can learn from it.
While a few new services announcements were made Monday at the Global Partner Summit, the CEO keynote got the lion’s share, including ones like new Graviton3 ARM chips and related C7g Instance for EC2, AWS Mainframe Modernization to encourage mainframe migrations, and the no-code Sagemaker Canvas.
New channel leader Riya Shanmugam talks with ChannelBuzz about how she intends to grow New Relic’s channel business and how their growing AWS channel will play an important role.
AWS has launched a second Canadian region, in Calgary, to better serve western Canada, while also significantly expanding their AWS re/Start skills development programs with new initiatives that will go live in early 2022.
Kasten is one of the launch partners for the brand new AWS Marketplace for Containers Anywhere, announced on Monday, which will allow Kubernetes services to be provided on-prem as well as in the cloud.
ESET has had an exclusive relationship with Ingram Micro in Canada since 2017, and has extended that with the availability of solutions in Ingram’s Cloud Marketplace, particularly of their PROTECT bundled offerings which were introduced in 2020.
Data management startup Hammerspace has unveiled an enhanced version of its global file system, and completed their transition to a 100% channel strategy with a new channel SVP and a new partner program.
Axcient announced their extended offering for Azure at the IT Nation Connect Show in Orlando, where they saw significant interest from all types of MSPs, from mom and pops to larger ones.
Boomi emphasizes their focus on hyperautomation, as an extrapolation of their traditional integration approach, and unveils Boomi Event Streams and a new Discover catalogue.
Gul Paryani lays out the channel vision for the company going forward, and says that the Ingram Micro Award for Emerging Vendor of the Year will help their efforts considerably.
FlexxDesktop builds on Flexxible’s long experience in the VDI market, and provide a subscription-based offering that covers data centres, the edge, and any cloud.
The program is designed for organizations looking to repurpose their x86-64 compatible devices with IGEL OS, and the assessment identifies which machines will and will not be good candidates for conversion.
Illumio CloudSecure brings agentless visibility and cloud-native control capability to cloud environments, and in conjunction with the Illumio Core platform, provides full visibility in management in hybrid environments as well.
Trend Micro has served its Canadian customers who require data to be resident in Canada through its Deep Security, which is available on-prem as well as in the cloud, but Trend is now pursuing a cloud-first global strategy, and the Canadian data centre is part of that.
Many of the enhancements are part of the new version of NetApp’s ONTAP software, which include ransomware protection, NVMe over TCP support and expanded data services.
Splunk also announced a major reworking of its partner program, which is now the Splunk Partnerverse Program, and features a new badging system that unlocks paths to higher rewards.
One of the new services, Cohesity DataGovern, is specifically focused on data exfiltration, the latest tactic being employed in ransomware by cybercriminals.