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Fastly empowers partners to strengthen customer security and expand services with new certification program

November 24, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Fastly empowers partners to strengthen customer security and expand services with new certification program
Fastly, which makes a global edge cloud platform, has announced the launch of its new partner certification program, the Fastly Certified Services Partner Program, which is  designed for technical security professionals at partner organizations, providing them with comprehensive training and certification.

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Artificial Intelligence

Network Detection and Response [NDR] vendor Corelight enhances its AI-powered threat detection capabilities

November 21, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Network Detection and Response [NDR] vendor Corelight enhances its AI-powered threat detection capabilities
Corelight expands its strength in evasive threat detection with AI-powered enhancements and integrated threat intelligence, including combining Corelight’s rich network evidence with CrowdStrike’s adversary-driven indicator feed to empower defenders with enhanced detection and response.

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Agent

Akamai Inference Cloud gains early traction as AI moves to the edge

November 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Akamai Inference Cloud gains early traction as AI moves to the edge
Organizations are putting the technology to work to improve response times and revenue, from live video intelligence to context-aware chatbots and AI-powered consumer products, and why the company just announced Akamai Inference Cloud, a platform that redefines where and how AI is used by expanding inference from core data centres to the edge of the internet.

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Cloud

SonicWall posts strong momentum from managed security services, cloud secure edge and zero trust network access solutions

November 13, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on SonicWall posts strong momentum from managed security services, cloud secure edge and zero trust network access solutions
Record bookings growth for SonicWall’s strategic solutions highlights SonicWall’s evolution into a full-scale cybersecurity leader and trusted managed services partner.

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Edge

Cisco’s Unified Edge updates UCS concept for AI era

November 4, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco’s Unified Edge updates UCS concept for AI era
SAN DIEGO — At its Partner Summit here, Cisco announced its latest server offering, taking the converged infrastructure approach it’s been taking with its Unified Computing System (UCS) lineup for many years and bringing it […]
Artificial Intelligence

Armada and OpenAI partner to produce smaller, industry-specific AI models

October 27, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Armada and OpenAI partner to produce smaller, industry-specific AI models
Edge computing vendor Armada and OpenAI  have launched a strategic collaboration with OpenAI which is focused on the deployment of AI applications at the edge, specifically through smaller, industry-specific AI models.

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Backup

Object First targets edge locations and smaller businesses with new Ootbi Mini immutable storage appliance

October 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Object First targets edge locations and smaller businesses with new Ootbi Mini immutable storage appliance
The Ootbi Mini broadens the market for Object First storage to ROBOs and smaller businesses, while also adding a honeypot feature and a beta for fleet managers which should appeal to MSPs in particular.

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Backup

Seagate, Acronis partner to deliver S3 compatible Acronis Archival Storage

September 29, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Seagate, Acronis partner to deliver S3 compatible Acronis Archival Storage
Seagate and Acronis will ally so that Acronis will incorporate Seagate’s S3-compatible  Lyve Cloud Object Storage into its archival storage offerings to help MSPs deliver seamless, cost-effective, and compliant storage.

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Artificial Intelligence

Dell makes major storage announcements on product, integration and private clouds

September 24, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell makes major storage announcements on product, integration and private clouds
Dell unveiled new PowerStore and PowerMax QLC models, a new Dell PowerFlex Ultra release, both high end and entry level Data Domain product, an extended Nutanix partnership, and new strength around their Private Cloud and Native Edge offerings.

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Artificial Intelligence

Scale Computing makes strategic updates to its HyperCore software virtualization platform

September 16, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing makes strategic updates to its HyperCore software virtualization platform
Scale Computing has just made major upgrades to the Scale Computing HyperCore (SC//HyperCore) virtualization platform, which ramp up the power of enterprise virtualization while significantly reducing complexity and cost.

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Artificial Intelligence

Intel strengthens partner ecosystem with new partner Accelerator initiatives and Partner Activation Zones

March 19, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intel strengthens partner ecosystem with new partner Accelerator initiatives and Partner Activation Zones
The two new Accelerators cover the edge and networking, joining an existing one around AI, while the Activation Zones, which are different from, but highly complementary to the Accelerators, are around Networking, Intelligent Edge, and Manufacturing.

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Artificial Intelligence

Intel looks to accelerate AI at the edge with new Edge Platform

February 28, 2024 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Intel looks to accelerate AI at the edge with new Edge Platform
Intel’s new Edge Platform offers an easier path to introducing, running, and managing AI applications at the edge, and the company stresses it’s looking to build an open edge ecosystem.

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Edge

StorMagic introduces new Edge Control feature to manage SvSAN clusters globally

October 19, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorMagic introduces new Edge Control feature to manage SvSAN clusters globally
The new feature, which is free in this initial release, will deliver the biggest benefit to larger enterprises, but will also be attractive to smaller companies at the edge, as well as to MSPs.

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Edge

Innovative fraud prevention vendor Darwinium adds new funding round

October 18, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Innovative fraud prevention vendor Darwinium adds new funding round
Darwinium deploys on a Content Delivery Network at the edge, and is designed to provide full visibility to both security and fraud detection teams.

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Artificial Intelligence

Intel CEO Gelsinger lays out vision of how developers will rule the Siliconomy

September 25, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intel CEO Gelsinger lays out vision of how developers will rule the Siliconomy
Gelsinger combined his vision for the company’s future with new announcements and the short and medium term road map to highlight the extensive changes coming, particularly from the rise of AI.

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Cloud

New Edge Orchestration capabilities highlight VMware edge announcements

August 23, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Edge Orchestration capabilities highlight VMware edge announcements
In addition to VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator, new Edge announcements include a new retail edge solution and a new managed connectivity services which will appeal to service provider partners.

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Artificial Intelligence

Dell looks to expand partner services with Project Harmony

May 24, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell looks to expand partner services with Project Harmony
Project Harmony was the one new initiative specifically for partners announced at this year’s Dell Technologies World, within the context of a news-rich event which will create many other partner opportunities.

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Edge

Dell turns Project Frontier into commercial edge product with NativeEdge platform

May 23, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell turns Project Frontier into commercial edge product with NativeEdge platform
Dell NativeEdge rethinks how the Dell edge portfolio will respond to customer needs going forward, with enterprise security, management and orchestration.

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