HPE geared up for this week’s HPE Discover event with a GreenLake Day last week, when in concert with key channel partners, they held a major event to draw attention to the consumption-based offering.
Information Builders is now ibi – a term many customers called it in the past anyway.
The Toronto-based cloud accounting package looks to the distributor as a key enabler to help it get in front of VARs and MSPs that serve small businesses, but Canadian partners will have to wait until later this year.
HPE GreenLake’s consumption model is now top priority for HPE, so unsurprisingly, it is top priority in messaging to HPE channel partners at Discover this year as well.
Ted Roller makes a planned exit as channel leader – part of the business model of his company Get Channeled – and Matt Scully joins from Datto as Mailprotector’s first in-house channel chief.
At their virtualized Global Forum, SAS also previewed their upcoming Viya 4 release.
SAS will select Azure as the preferred cloud platform, and the two companies will look for ways to embed SAS’ analytics offerings through Microsoft’s stack.
Zycada is still in direct proof of concept selling, but plans to build out a channel of both MSPs and VARs.
HYCU broadens its partner program to reflect the extension of its cloud partnering strategy since it introduced its Protégé multi-cloud program.
In its first launch of these new white-labelled Intermedia offerings outside the U.S., NEC is looking to use them to re-establish a strong presence in Canada.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated existing trends towards automation, but now that much of the work of responding to the new work situations is created has been done, Automation Anywhere looked to future issues around workplace resiliency at their virtualized customer event.
The new cloud-native offering is available in four packages, starting at as little as $2500 a month.
Equinix acquires 13 BCE datacentres for $USD 750 million, with Bell becoming an Equinix Platinum Partner and reseller, and the two companies pledging a strong joint Go-to-Market commitment.
The new initiatives build on the familiar strategic principles which were outlined in last year’s next generation partnering initiative.
Clumio is offering free support for operational recovery, which is typically used in DevTest environments, to highlight that it fits in to what they say is a more holistic data protection strategy than competitors.
Datadobi sees the big market need for this not for moving S3 data from the cloud back to on-prem, but to provide more flexibility in choosing S3 clouds, in the same way that Datadobi has enabled NAS migrations between different vendors.
Mitel has been selling a wholesale private cloud offering in the U.K., and with this announcement, that model both goes global and onto the Google Cloud.
The Talend Data Trust Score provides built-in trust scores for specific data, which comes from a new Data Inventory application, and allows the user to press a button to fix many data issues.
LogicMonitor has intensified its channel focus since Mark Banfield joined the company as CRO from Datto 18 months ago.
Barracuda’s third annual snapshot of the industry finds some positive trends, particularly around the broadening of MSP security offerings, but MSPs still need to do more to keep pace with the challenges and opportunities of today’s unprecedented environment.
