Timothy Kasbe was hired by Zoho two months ago as their first head of enterprise sales, and he is looking to shake up the enterprise software space by leveraging some traditional Zoho strengths, as well as utilizing newer ones, like enterprise-focused channel partners.
Sage introduces significant enhancements to its midmarket ERP offering which include advanced options and functionality in the AWS cloud, improved API capabilities, and the start of what will be a major reworking to make user experience delightful.
At the Zoholics event, Zoho discussed its distinct corporate culture and its growth strategy extensively — and stressed the relationship between them.
Commerce Plus is not part of Zoho One, but is a separate offering, which sits on top of it. Zoho also indicated the identity of a forthcoming second vertical solution.
The new Zoho MarketingHub app provides coordination of other marketing applications, both ones which are part of Zoho One and those outside it, while Zoho Orchestly enhances business process automation.
The designs, one around HPE SimpliVity and the other a ProLiant/Nimble combination, run in the GKE environment, and will be available both through a standard reference architecture and through HPE’s GreenLake consumption-based as-a-service offering.
Lacework has a unified multi-cloud security solution that offers customers multiple types of protection in the cloud, and has begun building out a channel of focused security specialists who want a compelling message for customers transitioning to the cloud world.
HPE adds Nutanix and its free AHV hypervisor to their HPE GreenLake consumption-based service, while Nutanix’s channel gets to sell an integrated appliance which combines HPE servers with Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software.
To highlight the importance of cloud visibility, Sophos is also concurrently releasing a new report highlighting the extent and persistence of attacks on cloud honeypots.
Ed Rodriguez talks at length with ChannelBuzz about his perception of his new assignment, how he hopes to increase channel business in Canada, and some major changes, which add new resources, that have been implemented to help make this happen.
The enhancements include ease-of-use things like flipping the media player from horizontal to vertical, so that it, and the text to speech and associated analytics, run top to bottom instead of side to side, like everything else in mobility.
NetSuite channel chief Craig West joins the podcast at the company’s SuiteWorld event to discuss its new SuiteLife partner engagement model and all things going on in the NetSuite channel community.
IBM is making a broad series of storage announcements today at an event in Rome, with completion of the Storwize refresh with the V5000 series, including new NVMe models, being the highlight.
Axcient has named Gina Thompson as Vice President of Channel and Worldwide Distribution.
A new study finds that file sharing applications are a particular problem in SaaS security, with accidental exposure of information being the biggest source of internal threats.
The announcement that the technology Adobe acquired last year with Magento is now generally available as Adobe Commerce Cloud was a major highlight of Adobe Summit. For Adobe ecommerce vendor partners who have worked with Adobe in this space, the consequences are not yet clear.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared at the Adobe Insight event to highlight the extended initiative, which also saw a demo of how Unilever uses ODI to help reduce their plastic packaging.
Adobe kicked off its Adobe Summit customer event in Las Vegas with its CEO explaining how Adobe ate its own dog food to digitally transform and fundamentally reshape what had been a successful business. He was then followed by Best Buy’s CEO, who described how his company had followed the same strategy to revitalize a company that had been on many endangered lists.
Adobe’s $1.68 billion acquisition of Magento last summer brought with it a large channel, a huge developer ecosystem and a commitment to open source. All are embraced in the new Adobe Commerce Cloud, which is now in General Availability.
Adobe also announced a brand new partnership with ServiceNow which the companies say will lead to significant advances in the integration of customer experience data.
