VMware announced some major extensions to its strategic partner ecosystem, with the primary focus being deepening their joint focus around hybrid cloud strategy.
In the two years since the IGEL Ready program began, IGEL has added 30 new partners to it, but this includes some major OEMs as well as more specialized players.
Executives from Toronto-headquartered Compugen and Halifax-headquartered Mobia discussed their takeaways from last week’s HPE Discover event, and how they can drive their businesses forward.
The launch of HPE GreenLake in Canada in particular, because it coincided with Equinix’s physical expansion in the purchase of additional Canadian data centres, has been an important factor in Equinix’s growth in Canada.
In addition to a major announcement extending the SUSE-HPE partnership, SUSE announced that HPE has adopted SUSE Rancher K3S as their container of choice for GreenLake as-a-Service delivery, that the two companies will expand their engineering collaboration, and that SUSE Rancher and SLES Micro SKUs will be added to the HPE OEM price list in October.
As is customary with relationships involving HPE’s venture arm, HPE has also made a strategic investment in Alation.
Security is the focus of the IT Nation Secure event, and, unsurprisingly, security updates and roadmaps were the focus of the opening keynote.
TeamViewer’s strategic partnership with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team, which they recently highlighted at the Miami Grand Prix, has become an important component of strategy in their drive to expand their enterprise presence, as well as to build on their relationships with other car companies.
A key element is the reintegration of channel and alliances strategy into one overarching approach, even though they are managed by two separate executives.
Vcinity offers a unique solution in the marketplace which doesn’t move data to the cloud, but provides the same effect while allowing the data to remain in place.
The integration of Vade’s Microsoft 365-focused email solution into Liongard’s automated documentation solution will further expand Vade Secure’s presence, and is slated to be followed by additional integrations in 2022.
Illumio launches its first strategic partner program ever with 33 partners, and a process to expand the number of integrations by helping partners do more of the development work, and then have the solutions validated by Illumio.
Stellar Cyber will provide increased enhanced visibility and automated incident correlation to impacted Barracuda solutions, as well as benefits specific to Barracuda MSSPs.
The program is designed for organizations looking to repurpose their x86-64 compatible devices with IGEL OS, and the assessment identifies which machines will and will not be good candidates for conversion.
The integration, Addigy’s first around Windows-level license management, was made in advance of next week’s Acronis customer event.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
