This major series of enhancements to Pure Storage’s Kubernetes platform expands the number of use cases in which it can be deployed, and makes it easier to deploy it.
Ivanti Neurons Patch for Microsoft Endpoint Manager makes customers aware of the vulnerabilities in the Microsoft product, many of which Microsoft itself does not list, as well as how to reduce threats like ransomware through them. Ivanti Neurons for Risk-Based Vulnerability Management improves measurement, prioritization and control of cybersecurity risk, while the Digital Experience score is an important add that improves digital employee experiences.
Waterloo-based Cavelo makes a platform which assesses broad aspects of data management and regulatory reporting requirements, and, unusually for their space, is focused on the SMB and SME rather than the enterprise, and concentrates on going to market through partners.
Cribl expects Edge and its’ next-gen Edge capabilities to be sold with the flagship Cribl Stream, but notes that its ability to either enhance or replace existing agents is an asset, and that a component within Edge, Appscope v1.0, is being open sourced.
Vcinity offers a unique solution in the marketplace which doesn’t move data to the cloud, but provides the same effect while allowing the data to remain in place.
They include Virtual Storage Software Block, a new software-defined data platform that extends Hitachi’s virtual storage platform to cloud native applications, but the most interesting one for channel partners may be the VSP E1090, their new top of the line mid-range storage array.
Equalum is transitioning to a channel-first model, and sees the enhancements to the platform as major pluses for their partners.
Solarwinds has not had a full global partner program in the past, but new global channel leader Jeff McCullough is working on one, for the second half of this year.
Arcion plans to expand their sales force this year with their just-announced A funding round, but the channel is critical for them given that they have little internal sales resources.
Storage services, database services and end user computing services are also available as discrete packages, with the aim of all being to simplify things for customers and make the solutions easier for partners to sell.
Bertrand Yansouni, who has been VP of Worldwide Channel at Rubrik, is leaving that role, and is being replaced by Ghazal Asif, who becomes Vice President of Global Partners and Alliances.
Coalesce, which is working with channel partners out of the gate, thinks that while problems around data migration have largely been solved, the major challenge today is solving bottlenecks to rebuilding and documenting data moving to the cloud.
Zachary Kilpatrick arrives from Okta to grow Cribl’s channel business further, which will include the rolling out of a new channel program this spring.
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SOTI XSight adds a proactive diagnostic capability to phone analytics, something that is common in desktop and mobile PCs, but has not been part of broader mobile solutions before now.
The new channel program is designed to make things simpler, eliminating confusion by promising zero channel conflict, clarifying deal registration and establishing a minimum advertised price, and adding a new track for MSPs.
Data management startup Hammerspace has unveiled an enhanced version of its global file system, and completed their transition to a 100% channel strategy with a new channel SVP and a new partner program.
The most prominent new feature is a redo of the partner portal, which has been designed to leverage new capabilities in the just-released new version of the company’s StrongLink software.
Cribl, which makes it easier for companies to move their data around multiple tools, is planning an aggressive Go-to-Market expansion, which includes a channel that has been there from the beginning.
The formal launch of the DataOps Suite, following a soft launch in late 2020, marks the integration of Hitachi Vantara’s data products into a single microservices-based architecture.
