Cloud

Artificial Intelligence

Salesforce caps off torrent of announcements with Slack GPT and expansion of Accenture partnership

May 4, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Salesforce caps off torrent of announcements with Slack GPT and expansion of Accenture partnership
Salesforce concluded a series of announcements over the last several days with two specifically around Generative AI, including Slack GPT, which will bring Generative AI to Slack, and an expansion of their existing partnership with Accenture which will result in an acceleration hub for generative AI.

Cloud

Zoho Canada SMB survey shows optimism, but some concerns lurk in the data

May 1, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zoho Canada SMB survey shows optimism, but some concerns lurk in the data
62% of SMBs were positive about the future, although growth expectations for most were tempered, and views about data privacy raise some concerns.

Artificial Intelligence

Conga launches Conga Revenue Lifecycle Cloud and announces expanded partnership

April 25, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Conga launches Conga Revenue Lifecycle Cloud and announces expanded partnership
The new Conga Revenue Lifecycle Cloud fundamentally reworks Conga’s solution portfolio by rearchitecting all their applications into microservices, while the expanded partnership with Accenture turns what had been reactive joint sales to customers into common sales and engineering activity where the two companies will collaborate much more extensively than in the past.

Big Data

Boomi expands presence in Canada with new Vancouver Center of Excellence

April 24, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Boomi expands presence in Canada with new Vancouver Center of Excellence
The enormous scaling up of Boomi’s Canadian operations will see the immediate addition of 80 new staff, with further large growth slated for the future.

Big Data

New Boomi channel chief looks to grow channel further and better align with internal sales

April 20, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Boomi channel chief looks to grow channel further and better align with internal sales
The announcement of Dan McAllister’s appointment as Senior Vice President of Global Alliances and Channels at Boomi is but one of multiple senior changes in the leadership team just announced, including a new Chief Commercial Officer, a new Chief Strategy Officer, and a new Global Commercial Market Vice President.

Cloud

Former Maxta CEO Yoram Novick takes over as Zadara CEO to drive its new phase of growth

April 20, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Former Maxta CEO Yoram Novick takes over as Zadara CEO to drive its new phase of growth
Zadara started out selling storage as-a-service, but now focuses on offering a distributed model for cloud computing with over 500 clouds, to go up against hyperscalers whose data centres are much larger but fewer.

Backup

N2WS builds more momentum with Azure support, embrace of technically specialized partners

April 18, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on N2WS builds more momentum with Azure support, embrace of technically specialized partners
N2WS was originally a pure play AWS protection platform, with AWS being both their best partner and biggest competitor, but they more recently broadened into  Azure platform support and the Azure marketplace.

Channel Programs

Software collaboration vendor Appfire fine tunes channel strategy in move upmarket

April 17, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Software collaboration vendor Appfire fine tunes channel strategy in move upmarket
Appfire has been selling its software for years through a channel-first strategy, principally through the Atlassian platform and ecosystem, but has now formalized and beefed up its own channel program to make partners more productive and recruit more good ones.

Cloud

Pax8 expands endpoint security line card with Malwarebytes

April 13, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pax8 expands endpoint security line card with Malwarebytes
Malwarebytes is particularly strong in the SMB market, and like Pax8 is focused on MSPs, making them what Pax8 considers a good fit in their portfolio.

Cloud

Equinix looks to expand interconnect business with second Montreal data centre

April 6, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Equinix looks to expand interconnect business with second Montreal data centre
The new MT2 International Business Exchange data centre will also have energy efficiency advantages that will let temperatures be maintained at 27 Celsius, instead of the much cooler temperatures of the past.