Cloud

Cloud

Silver Peak unveils Unity Fabric uniting cloud, internet, and WAN

August 13, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Silver Peak unveils Unity Fabric uniting cloud, internet, and WAN
Unlike traditional WAN optimization solutions, Unity’s ability to keep Cloud SaaS and IaaS traffic on the same fabric lets it intelligently route traffic to the public cloud over a secure, optimal path.

Cloud

Enterprise mobility solution provider KidoZen sees channel momentum

August 13, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Enterprise mobility solution provider KidoZen sees channel momentum
KidoZen, a very young startup with a mobile app platform which facilitates the development of enterprise mobility solutions, is seeing customer acceptance as it goes against well-known brands like IBM and SAP.

Cloud

Cleversafe, Nasuni partner on unified storage solution

July 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cleversafe, Nasuni partner on unified storage solution
The partnership creates a unified storage system that will let distributed offices and mobile employees access a single global fileshare which makes collaboration and centralized data protection possible.

Cloud

SAP Canada opens first Canadian data centre in Markham

July 29, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP Canada opens first Canadian data centre in Markham
SAP’s new strategic investment in Canada is part of a strategy to help its Canadian channel partners significantly grow their cloud business

Cloud

RackWare adds DR to cloud management solution

July 28, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on RackWare adds DR to cloud management solution
RackWare’s new disaster recovery capability in its cloud workload portability offering should enhance its growing appeal to VARs

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Cloud

SAP creates new division to serve smaller firms

July 24, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAP creates new division to serve smaller firms
SAP detaches SMBs from SMEs in a new organization which will give their on-prem focused VAR partners new opportunities with hybrid and cloud solutions.

Cloud

My Digital Shield looks to defend small biz

July 23, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on My Digital Shield looks to defend small biz
Security-as-a-service startup with a Canadian connection looks to the channel to sell enterprise-grade security to small business

Channel Programs

Webroot reworks channel program to support partner-driven model

July 22, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Webroot reworks channel program to support partner-driven model
Webroot sees a real differentiator in the marketing and sales toolkit it provides partners

SaaSMAX CEO Dina Moskowitz
Cloud

SaaSMAX sees opportunity in channel SaaS marketplace

July 18, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on SaaSMAX sees opportunity in channel SaaS marketplace
Proactively constructing links between app vendors and app resellers is proving profitable for San Diego-based channel marketplace SaaSMAX

Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice president of the One Commercial Partner organization at Microsoft
Channel Programs

Microsoft expands partner-owned billing options for cloud

July 16, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Microsoft expands partner-owned billing options for cloud
Microsoft offers up new options for partners to control billing for customers using Microsoft cloud products, and introduces new cloud programs and support.