Cradlepoint’s new high end wireless router enters the market at a time when Cradlepoint continues to bolster its strength in Canada, and when the 5G market here is strengthening, with a very strong spectrum auction taking place a month ago.
Addigy sells through a large MSP channel, as well as a few DMRs, but until now they have always dealt with their MSP partners direct.
The new portal, which improves ease of use and adds new functionality, is designed for reseller partners, but similar support for MSPs through the portal is on the way.
ESET sees a strong partner play in the re-engineering of their ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Windows to run natively on ARM64 devices, a market which is growing and not well protected.
The opening keynote from Ivanti’s senior executives focused on Ivanti Neurons, which was introduced last summer, and which they see as central to addressing both remote working issues and facilitating Ivanti’s converged solutions strategy.
Ivanti has completed several major acquisitions during the last year, which means customers looking for guidance about the direction their assets will be heading.
The TOUGHBOOK S1 is not a replacement for the TOUGHBOOK L1, which will continue to be sold, but it does have higher specs and is aimed at more demanding environments.
SOTI is intensifying their efforts to get partners to sell more of their portfolio, and have been adding tools and resources to make this easier to do.
The new association launches with its first ten members, which does not yet include any of the largest players in the space, and a goal of removing confusion among customers and channel partners about the multiple definitions used around remote and hybrid work.
Cradlepoint also says that it will be announcing major new channel initiatives at their Global Partner Summit in early May.
Panasonic’s top-seller has the same form factor and durability features as before, but performance, flexibility, functionality and security improvements have been made.
The Ivanti CEO discusses the strategic fit between the companies, the likely direction of the roadmap, and the plans to integrate the two channels.
Lenovo’s other big commercial announcement this week is the ThinkReality A3 lightweight smart glasses, Augmented Reality goggles co-designed with Qualcomm for either a PC or Motorola phone environment.
Wandera enters the hot Zero Trust Network Access market with its new offering, but it also sees Private Access as highly complementary to its existing Mobile Threat Defense offering.
SD-WAN Secure Home is designed to extend Masergy’ SD-WAN to home offices, while SD-WAN On the Go is a software client for mobile users needing secure access – which can also be used as a low-cost home office solution.
BlackBerry introduced its new partner program at its BlackBerry Security Summit, while emphasizing the importance of partners to the Go-to-Market strategy going forward.
The BlackBerry Cyber Suite includes two brand new offerings, BlackBerry Protect Mobile and BlackBerry Persona Desktop, a UEBA solution. It also includes the existing BlackBerry Protect Desktop and BlackBerry Optics EDR.
Jason Falovo, who was the first Meraki employee in Canada, comes to Cradlepoint, to leverage their expertise in cellular as 5G begins its rise in Canada.
The new managed service is the direct result of the pandemic, with customers outside of AtHoc’s traditional large organization market asking BlackBerry to stand up a service for them.
In addition to the new tablet, which fills a void in the portfolio, Panasonic is also announcing their Android productivity+ suite of support solutions.
