Partnerships

Computers

Addigy, Acronis announce integration to bring multi-tenanted Apple management to Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud

October 22, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Addigy, Acronis announce integration to bring multi-tenanted Apple management to Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud
The integration, Addigy’s first around Windows-level license management, was made in advance of next week’s Acronis customer event.

Managed Services

SaaS Alerts announces first third party monitoring solution for IT Glue

October 19, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on SaaS Alerts announces first third party monitoring solution for IT Glue
The announcement, being made at the Kaseya ConnectIT event, is likely to bring SaaS Alerts a significant number of new MSP partners, while being the first of the MSP-focused documentation companies to get third party monitoring will also benefit IT Glue.

Cloud

GitLab extends strength of strategic ecosystem around Kubernetes with GitLab Operator introduction to run on Red Hat OpenShift

October 14, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on GitLab extends strength of strategic ecosystem around Kubernetes with GitLab Operator introduction to run on Red Hat OpenShift
GitLab has supported vanilla Kubernetes for years, but the Red Hat integration enables it to run on OpenShift, to provide additional value for both customers and partners.

Managed Services

New ConnectBooster integration gives Zomentum partners automated credit card and ACH capabilities to get paid faster

September 23, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on New ConnectBooster integration gives Zomentum partners automated credit card and ACH capabilities to get paid faster
For Canadian MSPs, the one limitation is that payments, while in Canadian dollars, are limited to credit cards, although the ACH integration in Canada may be forthcoming at some point.

Distribution

McAfee Enterprise and IBM Security to launch joint SIEM offering through TD SYNNEX

September 21, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on McAfee Enterprise and IBM Security to launch joint SIEM offering through TD SYNNEX
The joint solution combines McAfee Enterprise’s MVISION Device-to-Cloud Platform and IBM Security’s QRadar SIEM offering, in what is the first multi-vendor solution available through the TD SYNNEX Cyber Range program.

Networking

Linksys, Fortinet expand partnership around Linksys HomeWRK for Business covering both corporate and personal accounts

September 13, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Linksys, Fortinet expand partnership around Linksys HomeWRK for Business covering both corporate and personal accounts
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.

Partnerships

Qumulo and HPE extend partnership with highest density file solution on market

August 27, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Qumulo and HPE extend partnership with highest density file solution on market
The new ‘291T’ solution has 291 TB of NVMe storage, giving it 23% more density than any other competitive solution in the market today.

Hyper-converged

Scale Computing sees enormous opportunity in full-stack solutions being created by expansion of IBM’s edge ecosystem

July 9, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing sees enormous opportunity in full-stack solutions being created by expansion of IBM’s edge ecosystem
IBM’s expansion of its ecosystem around IBM Edge Application Manager, which added Scale as a partner, not only brings them in for their traditional ecostructure branch-office-in-a-box play, but will likely make them part of more complex solutions with other third-party vendors.

Managed Services

LogMeIn brings LastPass into PSA environment with ConnectWise, Datto integrations

July 6, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on LogMeIn brings LastPass into PSA environment with ConnectWise, Datto integrations
LogMeIn’s LastPass password management product wasn’t even sold through MSPs a year ago, but since then they have redesigned it to fit that market’s needs, signed cloud distribution deals, and now inked PSA integrations as they expand their MSP presence.

Hyper-converged

StorMagic, Hivecell partner on first HCI PaaS for the Edge

June 30, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorMagic, Hivecell partner on first HCI PaaS for the Edge
The partnership between two edge-focused HCI vendors will see StorMagic’s SvSAN software provide High Availabiity to Hivecell’s edge  Platform-as-a-Service devices.