The improved functionality will help Intronis partners have discussions with customers about providing higher-value recovery strategies rather than simply selling storage.
Industry organization CompTIA introduces its first vendor-facing trustmark, a program to certify cloud vendors that are looking to court solution providers.
The company rolls out smaller and less expensive appliance alternatives to Dropbox, and emphasizes that it relies on partners to show SMBs that their upfront cost is cheaper over time.
The new Workflow Manager feature will particularly help larger partners and those whose business revolves around remote app and remote desktop delivery. The company also discussed a new upcoming relationship with Google.
IBM and Microsoft enter the Leaders category in cloud in Canada for the first time, while eight companies classified as Major Players are closely grouped.
Avnet Technology Solutions’ Dan Allaby offers some guidance to solution providers looking to add to their lineup of cloud-based services.
Axcient looks to recruit VAR partners with a model that will pay them more up front than they could make with a traditional hardware-software sale.
While converged backup is becoming more common, Infrascale’s offering, which includes WAN optimization and a cloud gateway, is unique.
Vorex is broadening out from a direct sales model to enlisting a channel, signing up MSPs and VARs directly, and launching the first of what they intend will be multiple partnerships with RMM vendors.
The new version of Mitel’s cloud communication enhances partner capabilities to offer customers new functionality, while helping the partners deploy and provision their resources more effectively.
Avnet Technology Solutions poses some thought-provoking questions for Canadian solution providrs building out their cloud business in this contributed blog.
The long-time cloud backup solution’s new features include Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service enablement, open infrastructure support for FreeBSD on ZFS and CentOS, and integration with Linear Tape File System for archiving.
Alberta’s oil-related problems are leading to more interest in cloud and managed services, which can be funded from operational budgets at a time when staff and capital budgets are being trimmed.
SAP Business Suite is reinvented in SAP S/4HANA, where the S stands for Simple and the 4 for the fourth generation.
On the eve of its partner conference, VMware introduces major new releases of vSphere and vSAN, outlines its vision for virtual networking across clouds.
Avaya sales boss Pierre-Paul Allard tells the company’s partners they have to ramp up their cloud game or they risk losing relevancy with their customers.
Quantum’s new cloud offerings are integrated within their workflow strategy, and are based on the public cloud as a backup tier within that strategy.
While this is a minor release of Business One, it contains some interesting upgrades, especially for those who use it on HANA rather than SQL.
Business analytics joins unified communications, collaboration, and file-sharing among PanTerra’s service offerings.
Azure becomes the first public cloud supported by Avamar outside the EMC federation.
