AWS Re:Invent may have been virtual this year, but two things didn’t change: a three hour keynote unveiling new services from CEO Andy Jassy, and dozens of new services.
A new survey sponsored by Volterra finds while almost 9 in 10 organizations use cloud-native apps, the vast majority don’t run many business apps on Kubernetes or on microservices.
The general theme of the customary business strategy component of the AWS CEO’s Re:Invent keynote is that management rather than technology holds the keys to building an effective culture of innovation.
The two companies see Ingram being able to help their partners develop much more robust AWS practices with the nOps technology, starting with a small number of ones with deep AWS practices, but ultimately expanding more broadly.
The Canadian version of Sage Marketplace launches with over 35 validated apps, some of which are larger players, some of which are Canadian companies, and with VAR partners as well as ISVs being encouraged to submit their solutions.
The Stratusphere experience monitoring and diagnostics solution also gets many new metrics provided from endpoints, and a new API Builder.
Innova, which had previously focused more on public cloud management, sees the new SaaSOps practice area as a way for them to stay ahead of the trend towards SaaS.
This Rubrik release, like its predecessor, is focused more on incremental changes to better facilitate large enterprise workloads, but 2021 is likely to see a return to some eye-catching new applications.
McAfee’s Cloud Native Application Protection Platform is still in beta, but is announcing a series of major integrations with AWS services to streamline deployment and management.
Large GSIs are a critical part of Zoho’s push into larger enterprise deals, and they believe the TCS partnership will be a fruitful one in Canada.
Pax8’s new offering – which they believe will provide MSPs saving that it warrants being Pax8’s first paid product for their partners – makes particular use of enhancements in Microsoft’s security technology.
The second generation of Ataccama’s platform, which reworks and extends the innovations of the first generation of this offering, is now in limited beta and scheduled for GA in February,
The big changes involve making the whole Go-to-Market strategy more systematic, and include the addition of an internal sales team to work with partners, but some enhancements have been made to the partner program as well to make it more effective.
SonicWall has had zero trust capabilities before but the new SonicWall Cloud Edge Secure Access, a ZTNA offering, is their first to be cloud-based and really effective in the cloud.
MSP360 has also reworked its pricing structure, separating MSPs from end users and giving MSPs greatly preferred pricing to remove what the company decided was channel conflict which worked against MSPs.
StorMagic expands the cloud presence for the encryption key management offering it acquired earlier this year, which broadens opportunities for their channel partners.
Axcient’s new Axcient D2C removes the need for MSPs to have a physical appliance for customers, as well as the hassles of converting from another backup provider to this.
Fyde is probably best known as the maker of a free app which provides Zero Trust secure access to iOS and Android users, but they also have a commercial product, which is being rebranded as Barracuda CloudGen Access. It will be available to MSP partners in a few weeks once it has been engineered for multi-tenancy.
New PowerProtect DP series integrated appliances were the main event, but the announcement also included a key certification for their PowerProtect Cyber Recovery Data Vault and enhancements to PowerProtect Data Manager.
ESET offers details of its new Cloud Office Security product for Office 365 users.
