The new Unitrends offering is designed to allow both MSP and traditional business customers to back up straight to the Unitrends cloud without needing to use a local appliance.
IT Weapons has pursued an organic growth strategy since it was acquired to become Konica Minolta’s managed services arm in Canada. The acquisition of Calgary-based Continuity Solutions is designed to further that strategy in the small business space.
Netwrix has had MSP partners for several years, but this is their first certified integration with a PSA or RMM provider, with the choice determined because the product is used by two-thirds of their MSP partners.
The Unitrends MAX appliances are targeted at the lower end of the market, providing it with failover capabilities and other capabilities which have not been available previously to these customers.
The integration of native mobile capabilities acquired with SkyGiraffe fundamentally reshapes the user experience and adds significant new capabilities, with more to come as other types of applications are addressed in the same way.
A new study finds that file sharing applications are a particular problem in SaaS security, with accidental exposure of information being the biggest source of internal threats.
Liongard has provided roundabout integration with Autotask through their existing integration with IT Glue, but the integration streamlines the process, and provides access to Autotask customers who don’t use IT Glue.
Ipanema, which Infovista acquired in 2015, is becoming an increasingly important part of their business, and the MSP channel is becoming a more important part of that, as Ipanema broadens out its channel strategy beyond large telco partners.
Atera reworked their own platform to a microservices architecture to take advantage of the new platform, which also greatly improves their ability to work with Big Data.
Canada leads the countries surveyed in both the average ransom paid to ransomware creators and the amount of money lost to downtime from ransomware, which is hardly ideal, and something that Canadian MSPs need to work smarter to prevent.
While Webroot has updated their course content and made it easier for MSPs to construct phishing lure pages, the major attraction here is likely a new Client Breach Report that the MSP can use as a pre-sales tool.
The enhanced integrations, along with IT Glue’s new Open Platform Manifesto, are both designed to reassure the market that despite the company’s acquisition by Kaseya late last year, nothing has changed with respect to their commitment to working with all the PSA players in the industry, notwithstanding their being competitors of Kaseya.
While DFLabs’ platform already supported multi-tenancy, it has added the ability to manage large numbers of divergent third-party devices at customer sites with vendor-agnostic runbooks in this new optimization for MSSP and Managed Detection and Response providers.
Envision provides a Partner Dashboard showing all customers, and a QoS Dashboard that drills down into a single customer, with more analytics dashboards on the roadmap.
OrionVM, which only sells through channel partners, continues to build out what they regard as a highly sophisticated platform, which can compete effectively against the large hyperscalers on margin because all the elements of their stack are built internally rather than licensed.
Empower provides a much more focused approach to the security sale than tools that Continuum has provided in the past, which includes a new assessment service to identify gaps in customer security, and dark web monitoring to show customers what has already been stolen from them.
Kemp extends the automation it provided previously, including adding the ability to provide alerts about other part of the stack than their vADCs.
Netsurion thinks a good part of the SMB and SME market is ripe for EDR security protection, and that their offering, designed for SMBs, will make their MSP partners managed security experts in the eyes of their customers.
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Lenovo is a relative newcomer to a market that rival OEMs Dell Technologies and HPE have been in for multiple years, but Lenovo thinks they have something to offer customers – and partners – that their competitors do not.
