Nutanix is announcing several new networking new capabilities which they believe are critical to their ultimate goal of doing in the private cloud space what AWS did in the public space. Availability of some of this is still a while off, however.
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins outlines four key technology strategies as his company and partners prepare for every industry to rapidly evolve.
The IoT announcement at this point is more strategy than solutions, with most of the product still to come. On the other hand, the AP550 access point, a top of the line product, is available today.
The RapidFire agentless tool is designed to help Datto resellers prospect, by providing a detailed assessment of a prospect’s environment, and recommending the appropriate Datto solutions. Datto will give it away free to their channel.
The Dell Technologies CEO stated his views on multiple topics in a variety of topics during Q&A sessions at the event.
ThinkAgile will initially consist of three components: their existing HX offerings with Nutanix software, beefed up with Lenovo networking; the newly announced CX line from a new partnership with Nimble Storage; and new OpenStack-based offerings that will first be limited to China, and eventually roll into other geos.
Mist is using some of its latest round of funding to build out its MSP channel, with a special focus on partners capable to adding their own value on top of Mist’s platform.
Wedge has partnered with Cylance to bring its AI-based technology into Wedge’s new enterprise product, which also marks the first time Cylance’s technology will be used beyond the endpoint.
Masergy also believes that managed SD-WAN will be a particularly strong opportunity for their channel partners.
Silver Peak also announces the hire of a team of executives to build up the service provide business, which will be expanded with other partnerships.
Gigamon is looking to get partner sales people and engineers thinking more about selling Gigamon’s platform integrated with complementary solutions from over 30 vendor partners.
Riverbed is making significant announcements today around its SteelConnect, SteelCentral and SteelFusion product lines.
Avnet Technology Solutions vice president Alex Ryals discusses the distributor’s new business unit and how the company is helping enable solution providers.
SimpleWan, which makes an offering that combines several different security and network monitoring functions, has found that the increasingly converged market warrants their development of a new channel to address customer purchasing habits.
ADTRAN executives walked media and analysts through their product strategy, with new technology that they said few will find exciting, but which is nonetheless indispensable.
ADTRAN’s messaging for its VAR and MSP partners at its Connect Press and Analyst event has been clear, and focused on the need to take advantage of developing OPEX opportunities. A couple critically important themes were not emphasized, however.
From when the carrier market will be ready for software defined networking to strategy in moving towards a white box world, ADTRAN CEO Tom Stanton shared his views at the company’s Connect Press and Analyst event.
Waterloo ON-based Auvik Networks added an MSP variant to their network management solution a year ago, and are working on a multi-pronged strategy for building it up.
The joint solution will be available through the channel of both vendors, although in Canada, the FatPipe channel is more limited, so Avaya’s channel will likely carry the ball here.
DataMAPt offers a cloud-based RMM solution aimed at SMBs which offers flexible coverage, extreme ease of use, and very low pricing for the industry.
