Manager Hub, Admin Center, ServiceNow Vault and the expansion of Auto Resolution to Human Resources are all highlights of the new release.
The new ThreatWise offering becomes the ninth item in the Metallic catalogue, and offers what the company calls unique cyberdeception capabilities that fills out their solution with protection against data exfiltration that are now commonly part of ransomware attacks.
As is customary with relationships involving HPE’s venture arm, HPE has also made a strategic investment in Alation.
ServiceNow has rolled all of its customer service offices into a single consolidated one, for customers who want that, backed by additional service, training and support.
The new solution, suitable for a broad range of customers, digitizes lower‑value tasks so teams can focus on the work that matters most and deliver the highest‑value outcomes
Cribl sees Cribl Search as completely differentiated in the market because it searches data in place, without the need to move it, including data in data lakes.
The Leadership Summit highlights some specific initiatives, but the major focus is GitLab’s recent reconceptualization of its alliance and channel programs to get partners working more collaboratively with GitLab.
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.
