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.
Secureworks has worked with channel partners before, but informally in the field. Their first formal channel program is a single-tier one designed explicitly to be very easy for partners to use.
Barracuda’s third annual snapshot of the industry finds some positive trends, particularly around the broadening of MSP security offerings, but MSPs still need to do more to keep pace with the challenges and opportunities of today’s unprecedented environment.
Florida-based MSSP CyberPeak is the newest managed services partner for Respond, which initially targeted enterprises when they came to market last summer, but has since added a strong channel emphasis.
Liongard has added $17 million in new funds, bringing them to $23 million in the last three years, with much of the investment going into engineering and roadmap plans.
BetterCloud sees OneLogin’s recent shift to a channel-friendly approach as significantly enhancing their own Go-to-Market capabilities.
Acronis expects most MSPs to move from Backup to Cyber Protect, and is offering a promo through the end of July to encourage this.
NetApp sees its acquisition of a Workspace-as-a-Service provider and Citrix competitor as a logical complement to its own back-end presence in the space, which will create new synergies for customers.
