The new program is designed to enhance partner enablement as an increasingly broad partner ecosystem pursues IBM’s strategic focus on the hybrid cloud and AI.
The pending deal with Broadcom is only one of a variety of challenges Fine faces as she takes on the broader Americas role after a long tenure as Canadian channel lead.
They have enhanced their file service solution with scale-out cluster capability and with performance and tuning boosts, and announced the GA of their Vcinity Access object storage offering.
The integration of PAN’s Prisma Access with GCP’s BeyondCorp Enterprise lets Prisma users secure their devices through an unmanaged browser, while the Cortex platform has been strengthened by adding new proactive capabilities to Xpanse Active Attack Surface Management.
Larissa Crandall becomes Vice President of Global Channel and Alliances, the first time Veeam has brought these areas together globally under a single executive.
ThoughtSpot also made a deeper commitment to the AWS platform with the hiring of Britny Holloway as Director of AWS Global Alliances, while Rajesh Dhiman is now Senior Director, Global Systems Integrators.
The changes, announced at last week’s AWS Re:Invent event, makes it much easier for customers to move between vendors, and eliminates many of the lock-in barriers which have impacted the industry in the past.
While no major new solutions were unveiled this year at the European version of HPE Discover, they did announce a significant number of enhancements, particularly those relating to the recently announced HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise.
Adam Selipsky makes the case for continued growth even if the economic clouds are darkening, asks partners to invest in customer success at AWS Re:invent.
Veeam is also announcing a free 50-seat version of the native backup application for Salesforce, and indicated that a couple more product-specific like this one and an earlier one for Microsoft 365 are on the roadmap.
The Canadian channel is making a major move into the as-a-service market, but it involves significant changes to their business model, and thus new costs.
Barracuda is one of the first security vendors to announce support for the newly introduced Security Lake technology, which they deem ideally suited for their cloud email offering
The hyperscaler will look to return more water to communities than it uses through a combination of greater efficiency, reuse, recycling, and replenishment.
The $US 84 million of new investment will go primarily to expand their data centres in Toronto, Calgary and Kamloops, although their other five Canadian data centres will also be eligible for funds for facility expansion.
Todyl, which is available for the first time through distribution under this deal, has a platform includes six modules, which encompass over 15 different security and networking solutions