AWS Outposts, whose General Availability in the U.S. was announced last month at the AWS Re:Invent event, have now been extended to Canada, where the company sees strong demand from a variety of customer use cases.
At IGEL’s Disrupt in Nashville, the company announced that their native Linux client support for Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available.
Defendify, whose SaaS cybersecurity platform is targeted at the 500 seat and under market, has also filled out their senior executive ranks with net-new sales and marketing hires.
Citrix reiterated the need for partners to move into Citrix Workspace, laying out the advantages for doing so, and indicating new support to help them align their business with where Citrix is going.
The themes of both releases are enhancing user experience and deepening analytics, themes which will continue to be key going forward.
TIBCO talked with ChannelBuzz at AWS Re:Invent about how the company has pivoted to an increasingly hybrid and cloud-native world, and how partners like AWS are now a core part of that strategy.
Citrix completes the integration of the Sapho technology acquired this year into Workspace, and while Citrix offers many integrations with key apps out of the box, they also provide an SDK which will provide a rich opportunity for partners.
The Toronto-based online business platform company earns $100,000 in go-to-marketing support from Ingram and a chance for $1 million in cash at next year’s Ingram Micro Cloud Summit.
Coincident with the announcement of Barnes’ official appointment, Hammerspace announces their first channel partner program.
AWS is a key partner in Talend’s cloud strategy, which this year will see the vendor sell more than half its new bookings on cloud products for the first time.
ExtraHop, which has shifted the emphasis of their business to security with Network Detection and Response, is looking to be seen as the NDR vendor of choice for the channel.
Both the Panzura Freedom cloud file services and Vizion.ai cloud data management and analytics service are now in the AWS Marketplace, which the company thinks will help channel partners as Panzura completes their transition to a 100% channel-led model.
The integration with the new service will speed up the time that MVISION Cloud for Amazon Web Services requires to map relationships between data indicating potential anomalies, and let humans collect the dots faster.
The new APN Global Startup program is aimed at ISV partners, as are changes to Marketplace policies. The new competencies impact both consulting and ISV partners.
Doug Yeum, who is at his first Re:invent as global channel chief talked with ChannelBuzz about his objectives in his new role, which reflect the fact he is not from a traditional channel background.
In what is likely one of the longest [but most interesting] stories ever to appear in ChannelBuzz, AWS CEO Andy Jassy outlines the dozens of announcements made so far at Re:Invent.
AWS-focused CloudRanger only sold direct before their acquisition, but now sell through Druva partners as well, and believes the changes will increase partners’ ability to sell to larger customers.
AWS-focused startup Clumio ramps up their support of the platform on which they were built, while also achieving recognition from AWS for their achievements.
The new orb is for the AWS Serverless Application Model that builds serverless applications for AWS Lambda, and meets a demand CircleCI says is now taking off.
Marcel Escorcio talks with ChannelBuzz about the major new additions to the Hitachi Vantara lineup announced at NEXT, and their implications for Canadian partners.
