Partnerships

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.

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.

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.

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.

HPE GreenLake is focal point for HPE Discover announcements

HPE kicked off its Discover event with a flurry of announcements around HPE GreenLake, including GreenLake Lighthouse, Project Aurora, Silicon-on-Demand, a new Compute Cloud Console – and eight new services.

DH2i addresses SQL Server for Containers problem with Kubernetes through DxE for Containers

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.

StorMagic, Zerto collaborate on HPE validated joint solution through HPE Complete program

HPE brought the two vendors together to design a validated solution on HPE Proliant servers, which combines Zerto’s high resiliency with StorMagic’s lightweight software for edge deployments.

Blancco partnership with ServiceNow makes its data erasure software available in ServiceNow store

Blancco is primarily looking to use the new integration to deepen their relationship with existing mutual customers, but also hopes to add a few new Fortune 1000 companies who are on the ServiceNow platform.

Rubrik, NetApp extend partnership with Go-to-Market relationship

The Rubrik Go Foundation Edition, and Rubrik Go Business Edition SKUs will appear on NetApp price lists starting May 17, providing multiple benefits to the companies’ field sales forces and joint channel partners.

Aunalytics launches first Alliance Partner Program to highlight and support their analytics integrations

Aunalytics’ first program for strategic partners includes major ISVs, but also MSPs and other partners with joint solutions based on deep technical integrations.

Redis Labs continues theme that best use of Redis is as a database with second-day partnership marketplace announcements with AWS and Google

The Google announcement was for the private preview availability of Redis Enterprise on Anthos with GKE, and the availability of Redis Enterprise on the GKE Marketplace, while the AWS announcement makes all of the Redis Enterprise Cloud expanded offerings available in the AWS Marketplace.

Lenovo targets growing AI market in mainstream enterprises with five new ready to deploy AI solutions

The emphasis with the five new offerings, using technology from Addfor, Everseen, cnvrg.io, SAS and NetApp, is on the solutions’ ease of deployment, removing a barrier that has stymied many enterprises from getting AI products into production.

Dell partners with Druva to introduce Dell EMC PowerProtect Backup Service

In addition to the new offering, which will let Dell partners who were already working with Druva apply that business to the Dell Partner Program, Dell is also announcing the addition of Google Cloud to the Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager cloud ecosystem, and the ability to lower snapshot retention costs with joint availability of PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager and PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition.

Equinix Metal includes Toronto in first 18 metros, as its first managed appliance-as-a-service solutions also roll out

Equinix Metal launches with integrations from hardware providers Dell and Pure storage, and with software ones from Mirantis Container Cloud and Cohesity Helios, but they expect many more beyond these early adopters.

New Redis Labs Chief Business Development Officer views channel as key to expanding AI and machine learning Go-to-Market

Taimur Rashid, who joins Redis from Microsoft, talks with ChannelBuzz about his plans to expand the company’s business in the AI space, which he said is still very small compared to its total potential.

Illusive launches automated detection and response program with vendor partners to further shorten threat response time

Deep integrations with vendors like Crowdstrike, CyberArk, Palo Alto Networks, and Azure’s Active Directory and Sentinel make automation more precise, and let analysts move to immediate response instead of doing further investigation.

GitLab expands partnership with IBM to IBM Cloud Pak

GitLab has worked with IBM previously around IBMs mainframes and component parts of the IBM business like Red Hat and OpenShift, but the new partnership, with a strong Go-to-Market led by IBM, will be much more comprehensive.Today, DevOps lifecycle platform provider GitLab is announcing the expansion of their strategic alliance with IBM that expands GitLab…

BackupAssist partners with Wasabi for new low cost cloud backup offering

On the heels of the latest release of Version 11 of their BackupAssist Classic offering, BackupAssist announces a new integration with Wasabi with their flagship BackupAssist Classic, which complements an existing integration with BackupAssist ER.

StorMagic expands HPE relationship with Edgeline validation

StorMagic, which has a Go-to-Market partnership with HPE for their HCI software, has extended that from the initial ProLiant focus earlier this year to the edge-focused HPE Edgeline servers