Pax8 is emphasizing that not only will Liongard improve the efficiency of IT documentation software, but their recent expansion of their platform capability complements other adjacent technologies, including providing integrated alerting.
Digital Defense adds a formal MSP tier for the first time, with the conviction that this is where their market is headed, and that if they do it right, it will provide them with major advantages.
Sonrai uses workflow and role-based swimlanes to address identity and workload-related issues by automatically routing actions to cloud, security, audit or DevOps teams, or deploy remediation bots to address the issue, with the customer being able to determine how they want things handled.
SolarWinds partners using both N-Central and RMM will be able to deliver monitoring through Microsoft Intune, with true multi-tenanted capabilities and policy consistency not available to MSPs just by using Microsoft 365 alone.
LogMeIn makes two unrelated announcements, expanding MSP opportunities in their Identity and Access Management business, and adding new hardware bundles for GoToRoom in their UCC business.
Zomentum has signed up hundreds of MSPs since their tool became available last fall, despite the pandemic’s shutting down their activities around trade shows.
Webroot’s improvements to DoH [DNS-over-HTTPS] will provide MSPs with the ability to tell customers that this is something that can significantly improve their privacy on the Internet.
With stateful applications now making up over half of containerized applications, Diamanti thinks multi-cluster Kubernetes management has become essential.
End users need to sign up by July 15. While the offer is targeted at them, it is a channel initiative, and enrollees who don’t have an MSP partner will be introduced to one as part of the program.
The enhancements to the new release of StorageCraft’s flagship data protection software are focused on filling in small gaps and connecting dots, to allow MSPs to use it as a single platform to cover all business continuity use cases.
Bringing together all the ConnectWise products so they work together as a seamless unit will build on a similar initiative Continuum had started before ConnectWise acquired them, and is expected to take 12-18 months.
The major one here is ConnectWise Fortify for SaaS Security, which adds many new capabilities to the Perch platform. ConnectWise has also rebranded the solutions it acquired with Continuum.
The MSP+ Cybersecurity Framework, and its supporting playbooks, are designed to educate MSPs from newbies to very mature how to position cybersecurity with a strategy best attuned to their own maturity, using a vendor-neutral approach.
Datto’s new annual MSP study indicates that the pandemic has led many MSPs to downgrade their growth expectations, but it also illuminates some positive trends in the industry.
Cohesity offers partners the ability to use the pricing model preferred by most service providers, as they expand their MSP channel both upmarket to large telcos and downmarket to MSPs who serve the SMB and midmarket.
Pulseway is aiming Pulseway Patch, the standalone version of the automated patching they added to their RMM last year, at SMB IT departments and at MSPs who don’t use Pulseway.
StorMagic’s SvKMS encryption key management solution is new to the MSP channel, and is being aimed at MSSPs as well as MSPs.
As existing clients and prospects struggle, MSPs must take a thoughtful approach to increase revenues, says MatMcCarthy, director of Noth American partner management for Barracude MSP
The company, which has moved to a channel-first model, expects that Synnex’s strength in Canada will help them grow their channel there.
LogicMonitor has intensified its channel focus since Mark Banfield joined the company as CRO from Datto 18 months ago.
