Archive360 supports Azure Archival, the Azure alternative to AWS Glacier, as well as Microsoft Azure Cognitive & Media Services, which allows accurate transcription of audio and video files in real time.
The changes, which will see partners who sell through the cloud Exchanges receive back-end rebates and program credit for the first time, are part of a new initiative that establishes a new Sophos Cloud Security Provider cert in the company’s partner program.
Designed to slash customer onboarding time for MSPs, the new CloudJumper Customer Management module adds automated migration to the automated quoting and provisioning that had been there before.
Netgear’s new smart cloud offering provides a free app and a free subscription for a basic version. New switches and APs are required though, and a paid version with unlimited device support and additional features will be available early next year.
Qumulo adds continuous replication technology, cross-cluster monitoring, and AWS cloud support to their scalable file storage system.
Both VMworld 2017 events ramped up cloud offerings, infrastructure and designations, as VMware rebrands its image to customers around the cloud.
While VMware has been sold in the IBM Cloud before, the new deal allows Dell EMC and its partners to resell it, beginning in Q4.
OnApp, which has a larger global share of the service provider market, enters the enterprise HCI market with their software in Intel hardware, and a channel-only model with a master reseller/distributor in each geo.
The private version of the Kaspersky Security Network, aimed mainly at regulated organizations, broadens reputation-based analysis, adds whitelisting capability, and improves third-party integration.
ATADATA has always sold through the channel, but it has mainly been on an ad hoc basis. Now they are formalizing things with their first channel program, and are looking to add partners who are a good fit.
In addition to upgrades to VxRail, VxRack SDDC, both their Enterprise and Native hybrid clouds, and new turnkey VMware Ready Systems for ‘do it yourself’ cloud deployments, Dell EMC also announced GA for XtemIO X2 and an upgrade of their Dell Data Protection Suite for Applications.
New Sage channel chief Jennifer Warawa discusses her talks with partners since taking the job earlier this year, and previews the changes that will be coming with the new fiscal year.
The new Naveego release enhances the ability to check data across different platforms, improves the dashboards, allows writing SQL against non-SQL data sets, and enhances data quality on large data sets.
It includes a variety of different engagement models, depending on the way the partner’s business is structured, and makes some adjustments to costing as traditionally done in MSP programs.
The Azure component is especially significant, as Zerto becomes the first vendor to support replication from the Azure cloud, as well as into it.
FileHold’s FastFind, Powered by dtSearch, now lets customers search for documents even when they are in a third-party application.
Barracuda Backup joins their firewall solutions in being authorized and enabled for the AWS cloud, with the Azure cloud next on the priority list.
Pax8 and Datto have announced a strategic partnership, which is what a company that has not used distribution before calls entering into its first distribution agreement.
The program’s main element is an online tool that lets partners benchmark their cloud readiness against their peers and provides insights on increasing their cloud business.
Ingram Micro was the first broadline distributor to make a big push into the cloud. Now, as the cloud opportunity expands, it is fine tuning how it makes that push.
