The new Prisma SASE combines Prisma Access’ security capabilities and Prisma SD-WAN into a converged service that provides Zero Trust Network Access, Cloud Secure Web Gateway, CASB, Firewall as a Service and SD-WAN into a single solution managed with a unified dashboard.
The companies see this combination of enterprise grade support for both corporate and personal accounts in the same device as a first in the market, fulfilling a need that has grown significantly during the pandemic.
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.
Tigera has been selling commercial products using the Calico Open Source it developed for about two years, but within the last six months, increased channel interest has led them to develop that channel, now supported by a partner program.
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.
Extreme sees Ipanema’s cloud-native SD-WAN technology as significantly fortifying their existing SD-WAN capabilities, and as strengthening their Infinite Enterprise strategy.
Anthony James, vice president of product marketing at Infoblox shares what it’s in the company’s Infoblox 3.0 strategy for partners in this guest blog.
The deal comes on the heels of the Capsule8 acquisition earlier this month, which also further built out Sophos’ ACE technology.
The funding and the acquisition both involve equity firm Great Hill Partners, but Auvik is stressing that while this will allow Auvik to solve a broader range of customer problems, and could lead to select acquisitions, they aren’t about to start buying up companies like chocolates.
Enhancements in the new version include adding reducing the time it takes to protect against attacks, by providing more flexibility to automated security enforcement, by improving Intelligent Visibility and by adding new SuperClusters to scale up the number of supported workloads.
Most of the changes require more partner investment in training in exchange for more rewards. The two new roles, Developer and Advisor, are still not quite ready, and are scheduled to go live in August.
Versa began as an SD-WAN vendor, but has been rapidly transitioning into the SASE market, will spend much of the fresh $86 million raised on sales and marketing, in a market in which many customers still don’t really know what SASE is.
The new Threat Prevention capability, which comes through Webroot BrightCloud, is accompanied by a choice of packages with or without the capability, as well as deployment options which allows for data to be assessed at the edge.
The component of the news likely to turn the most head is the new AOS 10, which brings together WLAN and SD-Branch within a single operating system.
Microsoft gets a huge numbers of downloads for SQL Server containers, but its stateful containers have issues with stateless Kubernetes and kept them in DevTest environments. DxE for Containers was built to change that.
The purchase by Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners won’t affect ExtraHop’s status as a standalone company, but it will mean more R&D money to expand into natural adjacencies, and more opportunities for channel partners.
The two big news pieces here are the delivery of an open cloud-native telecom ecosystem and a new Dell Technologies open telecom ecosystem lab.
Infoblox 3.0 is a vision and a strategy, not a new product set, but it’s an important vision and strategy, which provides an integrated cloud-native management console for their on-prem and cloud products alike.
The changes, which are focused on the Prisma Cloud’s Cloud Security Posture Management module, primarily deal with long-standing issues that the industry has not addressed well because they are difficult.
Cisco’s ‘Future Cloud’ event today also introduces multiple additional cloud capabilities, including Cisco Service Mesh Manager, the expansion of Cisco Cloud ACI into GCP, and a new ThousandEyes integration with the Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Series for SD-WAN and Cisco Nexus 9000 switches.
