While the two major new alliances were the splashy announcements, CloudJumper also announced the release of version 5.3 of their Cloud Workspace Management Suite.
OpenText’s expanded partnership with Google Cloud makes it a preferred cloud partner – second only to OpenText’s own cloud – as the company doubles down on their cloud strategy.
The new joint solution, provides an industrial monitoring solution for proactive maintenance that is much more scalable than what ABB had been using before, and ABB sees its ability to be sold on a consumption model as opening up new use cases.
The bundled offering, which will go to market through the companies’ joint channel partners, is seen as a particularly strong offering in ICS and IoT environments.
Dell EMC Canada’s President of Commercial Sales Paul Katigbak gives his take on some of the major announcements from the recent Dell Technologies World event.
The follow-up to last year’s original ThinkSmart Hub 500, which was for Skype for Business, continues Lenovo’s strategy of building out their Smart Office portfolio, and in the teams space in particular.
CIRA has now deployed an API for its D-Zone DNS Firewall, and integrated it with Ottawa-based Field Effect Software’s monitoring and analysis platform, in what CIRA hopes will be the first of many such partnerships.
The deal reunites SonicWall with old partner Secure Designs Inc., and expands their channel with a different type of partner than those which they typically work with.
The SDK is part and parcel of AtScale’s move to a more agile quarterly release cycle. The platform also improves analytical query and security capabilities.
The partnership with ADVA Ensemble bundles a library of over 50 third party solutions into Dell’s VEP platform, with partners being able to pick and choose the ones that fit their business.
The meet-in-the-channel partnership will see Cisco Meraki resellers sell the offering, as well as the growing number of partners who are Teridion’s sole route to market for the service.
The new program differs from Veeam’s established Alliance programs in having a broader objective of building out a Veeam ecosystem where they are embedded in others’ solutions.
Veeam hits a long-sought milestone as they looks to drive their hybrid cloud strategy with a new strategic partnering initiative.
In addition to a new IT management and monitoring solution integration, IGEL is showcasing their new IGEL UD2 Universal Desktop endpoint solution and their IGEL OS 11.
The Lenovo event in Orlando highlighted an intelligent enterprise transformation theme with show floor demos around this integration for both travel planning and IoT Smart warehouse management. Lenovo expects to see partner pickup from smaller vertically-focused boutique firms as well as larger integrators.
Longtime Microsoft partner collaborator Dell Technologies kicked off their event by bringing VMware together with Microsoft to announce a partnership between two organizations who have not been close chums historically.
The new partnership with Dell EMC joins existing ones with Cisco and Lenovo – and will be joined later this spring with another StorMagic partnership with another big server vendor.
Automation Anywhere’s announcements this week include a new partnership with Toptal, which provides human talent, and which will see the companies add Digital Workers to that talent pool. It’s part of a plan to take RPA beyond IT and embed it more broadly and deeply in business processes.
The extended partnership integrates Wandera with the Microsoft EMS suite as well as Intune, to provide Wandera and its channel with the more comprehensive type of mobile security solution they see customers wanting today.
The announcement that the technology Adobe acquired last year with Magento is now generally available as Adobe Commerce Cloud was a major highlight of Adobe Summit. For Adobe ecommerce vendor partners who have worked with Adobe in this space, the consequences are not yet clear.
