Partnerships

Scality, HPE expand partnership with new HPE Apollo 4000 integration

November 20, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The enhancement of an existing relationship between the two companies sees the jointly engineered appliance get a new unified management interface.

SAP partnership key element in Square channel push

November 20, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Square, which built its business on simple point-of-sale solutions for microbusinesses, is moving upmarket, and partnerships like their new integration with SAP are putting them in touch with an integrator channel for the first time.

Salesforce, Google extend partnership with multi-faceted collaboration

November 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Salesforce and Google have announced a major extension to their existing partnership, which will see much deeper integrations. It will not, however, place Google in a preferred position above AWS as a public cloud provider.

Bitdefender, WatchGuard partner on integrated solution

October 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

OEM licensing agreements are a significant part of the revenues of Bitdefender’s growing enterprise business.

Cloud

Containerized app vendor Mesosphere extends strategic relationships with Dell EMC, Hitachi

September 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The reseller deal with Dell EMC, and OEM relationship around the Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Container program should significantly increase Mesosphere’s growing channel business.

Aryaka enters first UCaaS partnership with 8×8 deal that creates a ‘meet in the channel’ solution

September 20, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The best-of-breed partnership is aimed at enterprises with a global presence, as well as regional customers with significant challenges.

CafeX upgrades omnichannel customer service solution for Dynamics 365

July 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

CafeX Live Assist for Microsoft Dynamics 365’s new Cosmos release facilitates chatbot-to-agent escalation, and provides an SDK for mobile customer service.

Dell EMC publicly recommits to Nutanix partnership

June 30, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

While the Dell EMC merger has raised speculation about the future of their relationship with Nutanix, Dell EMC forcefully stated at Nutanix .NEXT that the relationship is solid and will continue.