AppDirect is announcing more flexibility in its platform to allow easy selling and billing through drop shipments for customers who don’t want to sell through a marketplace.
Christian Alvarez, who comes over from Juniper where he was Global Channel Chief, also pledges a focus on simplicity, and to do a good job of listening to partners.
The business process automation app Orchestly, which was announced at the Zoholics event in April, is also now live in Zoho One, part of several new enhancements focused mainly on Zoho’s growing enterprise business.
The goal, which is partially realized at this point, is for Axcient’s Partner Success team to leverage the new Axcient Marketing Portal to provide an automated process to distribute the number of leads that has been steadily increased since Axcient opened up their trial program.
The second edition of the distributor’s global ISV contest is open to Canadian startups, seeking to find the next generation of innovative cloud offerings for solution providers to bring to their customers.
Dell becomes the first storage vendor to ship the Intel Optane SCM drives, and their synergies with the newly-enabled NVMe-over-Fabric up performance by 50 per cent and let the company tout it as the fastest storage array in the world.
The new Deep Analytics feature in the Komprise 2.11 release expands its data search and indexing, to allow for quick searches of massive amount of data across multiple sources.
VMware Canada’s Peter Near discusses the company’s upcoming acquisitions of Pivotal and Carbon Black, its Tanzu strategy for embracing Kubernetes, and the cloud opportunity in Canada in this edition of the podcast.
Iland’s Canadian expansion is part of a series of new channel-focused initiatives which include a new partner portal and an enhancement of Catalyst, a cloud assessment tool used in pre-sales.
Dell Technologies made a series of VMware related announcements on Day One of VMworld, which also included the first two Cloud Validated designs between the two companies, and the availability of a flexible consumption model. Initial availability for the Data Centre-as-a-Service offering announced earlier was also announced, but it’s not yet in Canada.
End user computing vendor IGEL is back at VMworld this year, showing off joint IGEL-VMware solutions and customers, and emphasizing that Microsoft’s support of Windows Virtual Desktop, as well as their new collaboration with VMware, are creating massive new opportunities for IGEL and their channel.
Big Cloud Fabric now manages VPCs in the AWS cloud, while Global VPCs like Google Cloud provides will now be available across the hybrid cloud for both AWS and Azure. Multi-Cloud Director is now also available as a cloud-based service.
Naveego also now uses machine learning to add the ability to profile data at the edge without having to transfer it.
The multi-tiered storage tiering system for the AWS cloud covers all layers of AWS storage, including S3, Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive, with Druva moving the data either by its own policies or ones set by the customer.
Susan Bowen, Aptum’s CEO, talks with ChannelBuzz about the company’s new brand and plans going forward.
The new release of Rubrik’s Cloud Data Management platform also adds automated Disaster Recovery orchestration and Continuous Data Protection.
While Pax8’s MSPs give them good reviews on the interface of the distributor’s marketplace, the drive to improve the customer experience has led to enhancements around ordering speed, search, and granularity around user-based billing.
NetApp’s focus over the last two years has been to encourage partners to adapt their business models to add more services, cloud, and breadth within NetApp’s growing portfolio. Global Channel Chief Chris Lamborn provides an update.
Asigra believes the new offering will appeal to MSPs looking to get away from brokerage and get more control over their customers, without having to invest in a data centre.
Most of the improvements to Stratusphere are plumbing enhancements which may be more dramatic to Liquidware partners than to customers.
