Whether it’s in spite of the pandemic or because of it remains to be seen, but the distributor’s cloud business continues to see “revenue on a rocket-ship.”
Cloud, Distribution
Ingram Micro Cloud growth continues
by Robert Dutt •
Cloud
Cloud, Distribution, Managed Services
Pax8 projects broad automation synergies from new Liongard partnership
by Mark Cox •
Pax8 is emphasizing that not only will Liongard improve the efficiency of IT documentation software, but their recent expansion of their platform capability complements other adjacent technologies, including providing integrated alerting.
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Cloud, Virtualization
Liquidware targets Work From Home market with new Stratusphere release
by Mark Cox •
More metrics which help identity and remedy issues in home environments have been added, and enhancements have been made to process optimization, dashboarders and the API builder. New vendor integrations have been added – with more on the way.
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Cloud, Distribution, Unified Communications
Pax8 continues push into UCaaS market with RingCentral partnership
by Mark Cox •
Most MSPs have chosen not to become involved in the UCaaS market, something Pax8 is trying to change, in the belief that their ecosystem can provide MSPs with more visibility than they have had from working directly with these vendors.
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Cloud, Managed Services, Security
Sonrai Security extends enterprise identity platform with new Governance Automation Engine
by Mark Cox •
Sonrai uses workflow and role-based swimlanes to address identity and workload-related issues by automatically routing actions to cloud, security, audit or DevOps teams, or deploy remediation bots to address the issue, with the customer being able to determine how they want things handled.
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Big Data, Cloud
Naveego expands from providing data quality to offering full cloud-native integration platform
by Mark Cox •
Naveego supplements its Master Data Management capabilities with broader data integration ones that make Naveego a complete data integration solution and let them get in front of customers they missed in the past.
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Backup, Cloud, Storage
Commvault expands use cases in product portfolio refresh
by Mark Cox •
The news involves reworking Commvault Data Protection and Commvault Backup & Recovery into separate products with a suite option, bringing Hedvig technology into HyperScale, expanding Hedvig support for Kubernetes, further encouraging subscription pricing, and positioning the Metallic SaaS offering to go upmarket and address the enterprise as well as the midmarket.
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Cloud, Managed Services, Partnerships
SolarWinds deepens Microsoft collaboration around Microsoft 365
by Mark Cox •
SolarWinds partners using both N-Central and RMM will be able to deliver monitoring through Microsoft Intune, with true multi-tenanted capabilities and policy consistency not available to MSPs just by using Microsoft 365 alone.
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Cloud, Security
StorMagic enters SaaS market with Key Management as-a-Service offering
by Mark Cox •
StorMagic’s first SaaS offering turns the technology they recently acquired with KeyNexus into a cloud service, and the company says more SaaS offerings are on the way.
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Cloud, Security
Barracuda becomes first to market with secure SD-WAN service built natively on Microsoft Azure
by Mark Cox •
Barracuda is touting the unique nature of its solution stemming from an exclusive partnership with Microsoft, which should last at least six months before Microsoft opens it up to other vendors.
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Cloud, Storage
Work From Home market helping to drive aggressive Panzura expansion strategy
by Mark Cox •
Panzura is announcing the granting of a new patent today which is being leveraged to support Work From Home environments, and to expand Panzura’s customer base downmarket from its core of larger enterprises.
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Cloud, Partnerships, Virtualization
IGEL looks to expand technology partner ecosystem with IGEL Ready program
by Mark Cox •
IGEL has over 90 integration partners already, but this has been managed through an ad hoc system where IGEL developers did almost all the integration work. The new program will allow strategic partners to be more involved in this, allowing IGEL to have many more partners, and ensuring the integrations stay current.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Storage
Aparavi pivots with new data management platform with Azure and Microsoft CSP focus
by Mark Cox •
The new Aparavi, The Platform, has a more robust set of data intelligence and automation capabilities than their original offering.
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Cloud, Communications
Citrix study suggests work-from-home shift will be enduring
by Robert Dutt •
Research commissioned by the software vendor show many who moved to working from home in reaction to COVID-19 will stay there, and that that digital transformation has been accelerated in response to the pandemic. What does this mean for solution providers?
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Big Data, Cloud
Boomi further builds out reference architectures with Boomi Blueprint
by Mark Cox •
Boomi situates the Integration Center of Excellence service they launched earlier this year into a fuller collection of services offerings, which will have a channel component.
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Cloud, Software
Delayed Canadian data centre one of few Zoho setbacks in COVID response
by Mark Cox •
Zoho has had a broad COVID response strategy involving multiple initiatives, which largely reflect its own philosophy as a company.
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Cloud, Software
Canadian employees think workplace tech tools aren’t the sharpest in the shed
by Mark Cox •
A new survey done on behalf of Zoho finds that while a significant majority of Canadian employees are happy with their companies’ corporate goals and their work in general, most are not happy with their technology, whether they are working in the office or remotely.
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Cloud, Partnerships, Security
Splunk sees cloud and COVID strengthening its channel play
by Mark Cox •
Splunk’s channel growth has been a logical complement to the company’s cloud-first focus, and has also helped them deal with the pandemic-related challenges and respond to its opportunities.
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Backup, Cloud, Partnerships
Commvault extends Microsoft partnership to cover Metallic SaaS portfolio
by Mark Cox •
While Metallic’s control plane was built on Azure, the Go-to-Marketing and engineering issues that have been announced around Azure are new.
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Backup, Cloud, Distribution
Pax8 strengthens Veeam ecosystem with NewCloud Networks partnership
by Mark Cox •
NewCloud brings Pax8 MSPs cloud storage and compute resources to support Veeam Cloud Connect, as well as simplification of Veeam licensing.
