Managed Services

Backup

Kaseya upgrades their Office 365 Backup capability with Spanning partnership

April 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaseya upgrades their Office 365 Backup capability with Spanning partnership
The new offering is much stronger than what Kaseya had before for Office 365 Backup, and is something that Kaseya partners should be able to sell to their own customers at a good margin,

Cloud

Cloud distributor Pax8 adds bill-forward consumption billing option for ConnectWise MSPs

April 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloud distributor Pax8 adds bill-forward consumption billing option for ConnectWise MSPs
Pax8 has converted its recommendations that MSPs practice bill-forward consumption-based billing into a console option for ConnectWise, and plans to offer the same for other RMM and PSA vendors.

Channel Programs

SonicWall adds MSSP program to their SecureFirst Partner Program

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SonicWall adds MSSP program to their SecureFirst Partner Program
The SonicWall SecureFirst MSSP Program provides customized services generation capability for experienced MSSPs, blueprints for those newer to the space, and white-labelling of the experienced MSSPs’ services for partners just making the move.

Managed Services

MSPs will be able to add more services with new DH2i cross-platform capability in 17.5 software release

March 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on MSPs will be able to add more services with new DH2i cross-platform capability in 17.5 software release
The new release of the DH2i DxE software also provides automatic Windows/Linux failover for SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups, automatic Windows/Linux failover cluster on AWS and Azure, and management and orchestration of generic Linux services, including native open source databases, with automatic failover.

Cloud

New Citrix Replacement App highlights latest release of CloudJumper Workspace-as-a-Service platform

March 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Citrix Replacement App highlights latest release of CloudJumper Workspace-as-a-Service platform
Other enhancements to Cloudjumper Cloud Workspace Management Suite 5.2 include the ability to provision a full software-defined data centre in either Azure or Google with a single click.

Managed Services

BluVector targets midmarket customers, managed services partners with new release of malware detection offering

March 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on BluVector targets midmarket customers, managed services partners with new release of malware detection offering
BluVector, which spun out of Northrop Grumman last year, offers defense-grade network security, and uses a channel to reach midmarket customers.

Cloud

OpsRamp launches smaller Unified Service Intelligence solution to attract new customers

February 27, 2018 Mark Cox 1
Unified Service Intelligence is a less complex version of the core OpsRamp solution, will play in the midmarket as well as the enterprise, and is intended mainly to expose new prospects to the platform.

Managed Services

RapidFire Tools increasing effort in Canadian market

February 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on RapidFire Tools increasing effort in Canadian market
Network assessment tool maker RapidFire already does a good business in Canada, but thinks the Canadian market can be developed much more fully, and is making a major Northern push in 2018.

Cloud

HyperGrid pivots to ‘software-defined cloud’ vision as they release new version of HyperCloud platform

February 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HyperGrid pivots to ‘software-defined cloud’ vision as they release new version of HyperCloud platform
HyperGrid’s new version of HyperCloud adds new capabilities and services around workload placement, improves multi-tenancy further, and now provides support for Kubernetes as well as Docker.

Managed Services

OPAQ adds Palo Alto Networks as key partner on midmarket-focused security-as-a-service platform

February 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on OPAQ adds Palo Alto Networks as key partner on midmarket-focused security-as-a-service platform
Palo Alto Networks next-gen firewall offerings are now available as a service on OPAQ’s platform, in one of only two strategic relationships that OPAQ has.