For the time being, the deal is only in North America and will not be expanded soon into the other big public clouds, even through Pax8 has a long-standing and close relationship with Microsoft.
While LiveVox has been around for years, their channel is really less than a year old, and the new partner program is designed both to attract quality new partners and to get new and existing partners up to speed.
The channel is relatively new in Lightbits’ strategy, but the new channel leader was brought in to scale growth in accordance with what has become a channel-first strategy.
A new global study by Spiceworks Ziff Davis into the state of server and client computing devices has found that despite the rise of the cloud, computer hardware still accounts for the largest portion of overall tech spending, at 30% of overall IT budgets.
Wasabi’s overall business has posted very strong growth over the last several years, but the lack of a Canadian data centre has created some data sovereignty issues that, until now, have limited their growth here.
San Diego also upgrades the Now platform’s RPA bots, and introduces three new out-of-the-box solutions for specific verticals
Twelve new GreenLake services were introduced, eight of which are modular channel-friendly services from HPE Aruba, two of which are brand new GreenLake services, and the final two are upgrades of services announced last year.
Skyhigh Security will be deeply focused on the Security Service Edge [SSE] while Trellix, spun out of Symphony earlier this year will be focused on the EDR [Extended Detection and Response] business. Gee Rittenhouse, who was previously the Senior Vice President/GM of Cisco’s Security Business Group, becomes Skyhigh’s CEO.
Vcinity offers a unique solution in the marketplace which doesn’t move data to the cloud, but provides the same effect while allowing the data to remain in place.
Armorblox has expanded its use of Natural Language Understanding from the solution’s core engine to specific business workflows, like preventing data loss in Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Exchange and Google Workspace.
Veeam is the market leader in this space, but they see it as an almost complete green fields opportunity since their share is 8.5 million users in an area Microsoft estimates at 300 million today, growing to 500 million in 2025.
This is the sixth major redo of Zoho’s low code platform for both developers and Line of Business users, but the changes are so significant that the company says it is essentially a next-generation product.
Storage services, database services and end user computing services are also available as discrete packages, with the aim of all being to simplify things for customers and make the solutions easier for partners to sell.
AppDirect is already strong in Canada, and in Quebec, which was ITCloud.ca’s original base before it established a national presence, but AppDirect plans to expand in Canada further, and wants to build ITCloud.ca, which will retain its brand, into Canada’s largest provider of cloud services.
While many Cybereason security partners will be less familiar with cloud concepts and terms, the solution is designed so any Cybereason partner will be able to offer it to customers.
With Microsoft 365 license costs set to rise in March, Quest says these new changes will help organizations recoup some of that by saving time and money managing Microsoft 365 Licenses.
Vultr competes with the big cloud providers, focusing on core compute, storage and networking services, and offering customers lower prices and partners higher margins.
Extreme announced new partnerships with Manchester United and the NHL, and the appointment of Scott Peterson as their Senior Vice President of Global Channel Sales.
The transaction almost doubles Benchmark’s size, giving them the strength to tackle larger customer accounts, and it continues the company’s transition over the last several years to become more of a software and services provider.
Cloudflare’s services offerings centred around SASE and Zero Trust are being revamped with new support mechanisms, including an MSP licensing plan targeted at smaller partners, as well as with new program paths and a new MSP accreditation.
