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.
In addition to broadening out and strengthening their object, block and file storage portfolios, OVHcloud also announced a new AI initiative to facilitate easier deployments of AI pilots into production.
The new services which consolidate and extend security capabilities for Workspace Citrix has had in place before, are targeted around Zero Trust messaging.
NetApp’s CEO kicked off NetApp INSIGHT with the same kind of precise and combative address he generally gives in his non-virtual speeches, and explained NetApp’s strategy and why he thinks it will help customers address current problems.
Prentiss Donohue, SVP of Partners and Alliances at OpenText, provides ChannelBuzz with a channel update, particularly around progress on bringing the newly acquired SMB channel into the broader ecosystem.
On this edition of the podcast, we talk to Gavin Garbutt and Derik Belair about their new venture, Augmentt, a set of tools that aim to help MSPs, discover, optimize, and manage their customer’s cloud and SaaS subscriptions.
Together with NetApp Cloud Manager, and NetApp Virtual Desktop Management services, which are also being announced at NetApp Insight, NetApp is unveiling a differentiated suite of applications for both traditional and cloud partners to sell.
Cloudify’s 5.1 release adds integrations to allow it to be an ‘orchestrator of orchestrators for all cloud environments, and also adds DevOps integrations for those environments.
By coincidence, TIBCO’s latest acquisition takes place as they are in the process of integrating the channel programs from previous acquisitions into a new and more diverse one, which should expedite the integration of the Information Builders partners.
Because of the time of year, the Dell Technologies World channel keynote this year was much less heavy on programmatic and enablement-related announcements than normal. They did, however, introduce several executives in new channel roles, and give the expected exhortations about the importance of the channel to the company.
Company co-CEOs and co-founders Peter and Matthew Cassars reviewed additions to SherWeb’s capabilities since last year’s event, and also announced the availability of one of their in-house solutions, Performance Cloud, which is powered by VMware.
Project APEX is a vision of consolidating Dell’s cloud and as-a-service strategies, but new product is coming. The Cloud Console that will manage everything starts public preview today, and it and a new Storage as-a-Service offering on it will GA the first half of next year.
HYCU expects that the significant enhancement in the support they now provide for SAP HANA in Google Cloud will further enhance that solution’s strong momentum, which they announced was 600% year-on-year growth.
In addition to several significant announcements, which include the new Splunk Observability Suite, Splunk also announced the acquisitions of two companies, Plumbr and Rigor, whose technology will rapidly be integrated into that suite.
