The cloud services have the same OS as Nutanix’s on-prem software, which provides major benefits for customers – and significant new opportunities for partners.
Michael Sharun, President of the Dell EMC Canada Enterprise Division, discussed the major takeaways from the event for the company’s customers and partners.
Sage also announced new data from a survey they commissioned about small business in Canada, and pledged to work to bring together groups to lobby on their customers’ behalf.
Atmosera believes the combination of Azure’s maturity and problems many customers have had using the cloud themselves will sustain incredible growth rates for Azure-focused MSPs.
Igloo has transformed its customizable intranet offering into a portfolio of 13 solutions, offered in three separate editions aimed at different market sizes, and supported by dedicated professional services.
The latest Pax8 ConnectWise integration has optimized their interface within ConnectWise Manage to reduce the clicks in ordering, updating and linking cloud subscriptions.
The enhancements, which include support for Oracle RMAN and SQL, as well as the Hyper-V and Nutanix Acropolis hypervisors, strengthen the Rubrik enterprise play.
Breqwatr, which makes an easy-to-deploy private cloud appliance, and sells through an all-channel model, now has an OEM deal with Pure which is significantly expanding their addressable market.
A Softchoice survey finds that while customers accept Office 365 as a way of licensing software, many aren’t moving their infrastructure into the cloud.
The framework lets developers write new apps to the Palo Alto Next Gen security platform, and allows for these to be consumed as cloud-delivered security apps.
HPE formally announces its project to extend HPE Synergy to the full hybrid IT environment, which is still known by its internal code name, and which is still in the tech preview stage, but should reach beta in the fall. The company hopes it will be ready to sell by December.
In another of multiple executive moves announced by Sage, Nancy Harris, former Canada Managing Director at Sage, is also formally announced as North America Managing Director, a role she has been executing for some time.
A pair of announcements creates both a new fund to stimulate Salesforce cloud consultant partners, and a new programmatic initiative to work with this group and provide further assistance like MDF funding.
Epicor’s top technology execs discuss where the industry and the company are headed on the technology front, and Epicor’s strategy to differentiate itself.
Lisa Pope, Epicor’s new VP of Sales for the Americas, wants to recruit some top partners away from their competition, but also knows that for that to happen, more things need to change in how Epicor manages its channel.
Compared to the new Epicor ERP solution, which was just released to GA, Prophet 21 is less far along the development path, but the changes visible now from older versions are still significant.
Enhancements to the new release feature the option of a dedicated tenancy cloud deployment model, and enhanced visibility and control from January’s DocStar acquisition.