Data migration is a secondary feature of Komprise, which primarily moves data for archiving, but its new Elastic Data Migration capability provides a highly parallelized capability that is ideal for WAN migrations, and should increase that use case.
Cobalt Iron has already had a strong partnership with IBM because of an integration between their backup solutions, and the Arrow relationship will extend this, including bringing IBM’s Spectum Protect into the ArrowSphere cloud.
Aptum, formerly Cogeco Peer 1 until a rebranding last year, revamped its Go-to-market strategy going forward and is executing on that amid the disruption caused by the Wuhan coronavirus.
Zerto is also emphasizing that several enhancements around the public clouds and VMware will be of particular interest to MSP partners.
Google expands its U.S. agreement with the distributor to Canada, putting “the last cloud titan” on Ingram Micro Canada’s cloud linecard.
NetApp and Talon were already strategic partners, but the acquisition and integration of Talon’s technology into NetApp Cloud Volumes will expose it to a much broader audience than the large enterprises who have been buying it.
The gist of VMware’s new partner program has been public knowledge for many months, with the company emphasizing the depth of the program’s rethinking. While multiple programs have been harmonized into one, the Carbon Black, VeloCloud and Pivotal ones remain outside, but are not far off on the road map.
While Exabeam introduced a SaaS offering in 2018, the new offering is a multi-tenanted version of their traditional big iron product. Exabeam also announced new features for their core SIEM offering.
Panzura CSP partners will be the key Go-to-Market for the newly optimized service, which leverages Intel’s new memory technology to produce a 3-5x performance increase.
CloudBolt also announces new integrations for IBM Cloud, IBM Cloud for Government, VMware Cloud on AWS, and Red Hat OpenShift in their 9.2 software release.
After having started a major revamp of its partner program a year ago, Palo Alto Networks is now in the final stages of development of a comprehensive model for expanding partner services capabilities further.
The enhanced cloud presence in Canada complements the findings of a new Barracuda study being released today, which emphasizes that the network is increasingly moving to the public cloud, making partner capabilities there more important than ever.
Distributor Pax8 partners with one of their resellers to add their enterprise-grade SOC service as something that Pax8’s other partners can resell.
D&H is also launching the related DaaS Lifecycle Management program in Canada, thus bringing two programs north which have been successful in the U.S.
RocketCyber is broadening out their ecosystem with their first cloud apps, and with a new AppStore for third-party apps, with SecureNow being the first.
Avaya is introducing new cloud services through their RingCentral partnership, and is aggressively expanding into the Master Agent channel, but even as a Canadian channel exec moves on, the company still sees its stability in Canada as a major asset.
New Avaya channel chief Jon Brinton lays out Avaya’s channel strategy for the year ahead, which unsurprisingly emphasizes the new Avaya Cloud Office but also focuses on developing new channels.
Avaya kicked off the first day of their big customer event by focusing on their partnership with RingCentral and how it fits into their overall vision. They also announced the Avaya Cloud Office UCaaS solution with RingCentral, which will be available later this quarter.
Ivanti looks to reverse past errors by introducing a Chief Customer Officer and a focus on making customers happy rather than end-of-lifing their products. That will see renewals centralized in a new business unit. That change to channel policy is accompanied by another in which the company will focus on far fewer partners.
Liquit has become Microsoft WVD-certified, and will focus on working with the WVD channel to build up its North American business.
