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Addition of Aruba to GreenLake, new cloud services, highlight flurry of HPE GreenLake enhancements

March 22, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Addition of Aruba to GreenLake, new cloud services, highlight flurry of HPE GreenLake enhancements
Twelve new GreenLake services were introduced, eight of which are modular channel-friendly services from HPE Aruba, two of which are brand new GreenLake services, and the final two are upgrades of services announced last year.

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Skyhigh Security becomes second ex-McAfee property spun out of Symphony Technology Group

March 22, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Skyhigh Security becomes second ex-McAfee property spun out of Symphony Technology Group
Skyhigh Security will be deeply focused on the Security Service Edge [SSE] while Trellix, spun out of Symphony earlier this year will be focused on the EDR [Extended Detection and Response] business. Gee Rittenhouse, who was previously the Senior Vice President/GM of Cisco’s Security Business Group, becomes Skyhigh’s CEO.

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Vcinity launches partnership with Dell to take their hybrid cloud solution to market through Dell’s OEM Engineered Solutions program

March 11, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Vcinity launches partnership with Dell to take their hybrid cloud solution to market through Dell’s OEM Engineered Solutions program
Vcinity offers a unique solution in the marketplace which doesn’t move data to the cloud, but provides the same effect while allowing the data to remain in place.

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Armorblox fully integrates its Natural Language Understanding within its DLP in major upgrade

March 10, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Armorblox fully integrates its Natural Language Understanding within its DLP in major upgrade
Armorblox has expanded its use of Natural Language Understanding from the solution’s core engine to specific business workflows, like preventing data loss in Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Exchange and Google Workspace.

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 adds self-service restore portal and cloud object storage integrations

March 9, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 adds self-service restore portal and cloud object storage integrations

Veeam is the market leader in this space, but they see it as an almost complete green fields opportunity since their share is 8.5 million users in an area Microsoft estimates at 300 million today, growing to 500 million in 2025.

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Zoho unifies BI and integration platform within next-gen low code Zoho Creator Platform

March 3, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zoho unifies BI and integration platform within next-gen low code Zoho Creator Platform
This is the sixth major redo of Zoho’s low code platform for both developers and Line of Business users, but the changes are so significant that the company says it is essentially a next-generation product.

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Nutanix reworks product portfolio into simplified Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Manager segments with consistent operating and pricing models

February 15, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix reworks product portfolio into simplified Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Manager segments with consistent operating and pricing models
Storage services, database services and end user computing services are also available as discrete packages, with the aim of all being to simplify things for customers and make the solutions easier for partners to sell.

Renée Bergeron, senior vice president of global cloud at Ingram Micro
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AppDirect deepens Canadian presence with ITCloud.ca acquisition

February 11, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on AppDirect deepens Canadian presence with ITCloud.ca acquisition
AppDirect is already strong in Canada, and in Quebec, which was ITCloud.ca’s original base before it established a national presence, but AppDirect plans to expand in Canada further, and wants to build ITCloud.ca, which will retain its brand, into Canada’s largest provider of cloud services.

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Cybereason adds new Cybereason XDR for Cloud Workloads to fully extend detection and response into the cloud

February 9, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cybereason adds new Cybereason XDR for Cloud Workloads to fully extend detection and response into the cloud
While many Cybereason security partners will be less familiar with cloud concepts and terms, the solution is designed so any Cybereason partner will be able to offer it to customers.

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Quest Software adds proactive management capabilities to On Demand License Management

February 9, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Quest Software adds proactive management capabilities to On Demand License Management
With Microsoft 365 license costs set to rise in March, Quest says these new changes will help organizations recoup some of that by saving time and money managing Microsoft 365 Licenses.