At the start of VMworld, VMware introduced both their new Cross-Cloud Services, as well as some of the services and technical previews which will be available out of the gate.
Newly announced app modernization initiatives include the free VMware Tanzu Community Edition, the free VMware Tanzu Mission Control Starter, as well as the second phase of the Tanzu Application Platform Beta, and new NVIDIA GPU support for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.
Cloudera is looking to its new venture capital backing to intensify its previously designed strategy of increasing is channel presence, particularly as they roll out SaaS Cloudera Data Platform solutions that are key to their strategy going forward.
These changes are especially significant for channel partners, and coincide with an intensification of TIBCO’s channel strategy also announced at the event.
At the partner keynote during the TIBCO NOW event,TIBCO also previewed a variety of other changes that will be coming to the program and its partner enablement resources over the next year.
Clumio anticipates a significant market for this solution when it hits GA in December, because AWS S3 has become a large customer pain point, and theirs is the first solution on the market for it.
The new additions to the Connect portfolio include enhancements to TIBCO Cloud integration, a new TIBCO Cloud API management offering, and TIBCO Enterprise Message Service X, which allows the messaging service to handle cloud scale levels.
Salesforce also made several sustainability-focused announcements, including its achievement of Net Zero capability across its entire value chain, their Sustainability Cloud 2.0, and the addition of DreamPass to their Health Cloud 2.0.
Datto has sold its on-prem SIRIS BCDR solution for years, but their new solution for Azure gives them their first such solution on a public cloud, along with measures to protect customers from public cloud pitfalls like egress charges and data cost fluctuations.
With a split of in-person and virtual learning at colleges and universities, post-secondary institutions will have unique collaboration needs this year. Avaya Canada’s Stephen Brash offers some thoughts on how to solve for those needs.
COVID’s turmoil has both positive and negative impacts, with the negatives including some retreat from focusing on emerging technologies.
Zack Dickson, new vice president of Cisco Canada’s partner organization, joins us on the podcast to discuss his new role and dive deep into one of Cisco’s top priorities, the ever-expanding cloud market.
McAfee is bringing the first API integration for sensitive data detection, threat protection and activity monitoring capabilities to Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Sage 100 Contractor and Sage 300 Construction and Real Estate are now available in the Sage Partner Cloud through strategic hosting partners. Two U.S.-based hosting partners have been announced, with more likely, although probably not in this calendar year.
While there are now a large range of Zero Trust solutions on the market, ones which scale down to the SMB well, and which are well suited for MSPs are rare, which leads Pax8 to think they have a winner with this new offering.
HP says that Teradici’s brand and organization will remain after closing, with Teradici CEO David Smith running that business for HP, and Teradici’s many strategic relationships remaining in place.
Anthony James, vice president of product marketing at Infoblox shares what it’s in the company’s Infoblox 3.0 strategy for partners in this guest blog.
ConnectWise announced a new reconciliation tool for ConnectWise Manage, and a simplified version of BrightGauge for analytics newbies. They also announced an extension of their partnership with SentinelOne, and provided a much anticipated update on the progress of their new universal platform.
The new Partner Acceleration Program, along with a new partner portal, are focused on better enabling global resellers and distributors, but as Nitro expands their platform approach, including eSignature as well as PDF, they are also strengthening bonds with new types of partners.
Morpheus Data, which has seen growth in the scale of their channel business and the level of partner involvement, is introducing a range of new incents, aimed at both partner companies and engineers.
