Microsoft’s channel chief noted that Signature Cloud Support, an exclusive partner technical benefit that is part of its new cloud competencies, has been well received by partners who have taken advantage of it.
N-able expands on its relationship with arcserve to carry the arcserve next-gen UDP solution for the first time, which is branded as N-able Backup Manager UDP.
BitTitan sees their tool to migrate DropBox accounts to Microsoft One Drive for Business or Google Drive as particularly appealing to customers looking to consolidate all their data.
Partners asked Asigra to provide an integration with the AWS cloud because AWS prices now make it feasible to use it and make money.
Mississauga-based Lynch Fluid Controls was one of the SMEs selected by SAP to talk about their business and use of SAP solutions at the SAP event.
SAP makes an SME financing pilot permanent, makes HANA cheaper by enabling it to run on E5 servers, and lets SMEs list on SAP Ariba for free.
Project Squared, a SaaS business collaboration app for chat, audio, video, multi-party meetings and content sharing, will initially be a free download, but Cisco expects to monetize it as they add more features, and they see it as a strong channel opportunity.
The distributor says its Avnet Cloud Toolset will help solution providers offer their customers an enterprise-wide view of their cloud investments.
Cloud Defender combines existing Alert Logic solutions with new analytics and security services to provide a fully managed SIEM solution which addresses the entire stack rather than specific applications.
Dell’s Cloud Marketplace puts it in a broker role with big cloud vendor partners, but while they say there will be a strong channel partner role, its specifics are still being defined.
Michael Dell personally presented the results of a survey commissioned by Dell, which found significant obstacles to the adoption of technology, which he said was a good thing for Dell and its partners.
A new survey commissioned by Microsoft found under 5 per cent of Canadian C level execs understand what the cloud is, but the reality is somewhat different.
The enhancements to Hitachi Unified Compute Platform which streamline and accelerate the process of building and managing cloud are the big news here for most HDS partners.
AVG’s commercial market strategy is now based around MSPs, who the company thinks are well positioned to handle the additional management tasks that the Internet of Things is bringing.
Cisco’s Roy Purtill and Citrix’s Michael Murphy join the podcast to discuss their companies’ latest
moves in the cloud and mobility spaces respectively.
Last year rumours surfaced that SAP was shutting Business ByDesign down, but instead it has moved it to the HANA platform, given it its own general manager, and changed its go-to-market model to better leverage partners.
Avnet Technology Solutions cloud boss TimFitzGerald discusses Packaged Cloud strategy and outlines benefits for both solution providers and their customers.
Salesforce.com busts into the analytics market with a product that is easy to use, and doesn’t require having their CRM product.
The company is announcing its first all-flash offering, the NX-9000 appliance. It is also announcing Metro Availability, a new capability which allows a customer to deliver synchronous data replication to two data centres.
RackWare is not yet using distribution in North America, but distributors growing role as cloud aggregators or brokers means they will likely look at this next year.
