Partnerships

APIs

Portnox, SentinelOne integrate to enable dynamic, real-time access control

September 9, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Portnox, SentinelOne integrate to enable dynamic, real-time access control
This integration of the Portnox cloud-native unified access control platform and SentinelOne’s autonomous endpoint security lets organizations enforce dynamic, machine-speed access policies based on real-time threat detection and behavioral analysis.

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Artificial Intelligence

Splunk celebrates their community at .conf25

September 9, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk celebrates their community at .conf25
Two senior executives assessed Splunk and Cisco’s product and AI vision as well as the latest tech trends shaping the future.

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Artificial Intelligence

Cisco uses NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design for VAST Data integration

September 8, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cisco uses NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design for VAST Data integration
Cisco to offer a validated solution with VAST Data using Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA to enable faster data extraction and retrieval for agentic AI.

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Artificial Intelligence

Sage launches Workforce Intelligence, a new analytics engine for Sage People

September 2, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sage launches Workforce Intelligence, a new analytics engine for Sage People
Workforce Intelligence is a new analytics engine for Sage People and an integrated part of it, designed to give HR leaders deeper visibility, anticipate challenges and drive strategic impact through data, while empowering HR leaders with new tools to build smarter, stronger global workforces.

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Artificial Intelligence

Broadcom makes multiple announcements at VMware Explore 2025 Las Vegas

August 26, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Broadcom makes multiple announcements at VMware Explore 2025 Las Vegas
The new announcements started with Broadcom stating announced that VMware Private AI Services will become a standard component of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, making VCF an AI native platform, but they don’t end there.

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Backup

Opti9 launches new partnership with Backblaze

January 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Opti9 launches new partnership with Backblaze
Opti9, a 2022 rebranding of Canadian IaaS firm HostedBizz, has just begun an important new strategic relationship with Backblaze, which just got underway January 1

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Artificial Intelligence

Hybrid cloud infrastructure vendor Hitachi Vantara launches new partnership with Virtana and its platform suite 

December 4, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hybrid cloud infrastructure vendor Hitachi Vantara launches new partnership with Virtana and its platform suite 
Hitachi Vantara and Virtana have announced a new collaboration with AI-powered monitoring and observability vendor Virtana, which will integrate Virtana’s suite with the Hitachi Vantara  EverFlex infrastructure-as-a-service offering.

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Cloud

Cloud storage provider Backblaze ramps up Canadian presence with new Opti9 partnership

November 5, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloud storage provider Backblaze ramps up Canadian presence with new Opti9 partnership
Backblaze will leverage the new partnership to open its first data region in Canada, which will be based in Toronto, service the whole country, and become available in the first quarter of 2025.

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Partnerships

NTT DATA partners with Palo Alto Networks around Managed Detection and Response on Cortex platform

October 29, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on NTT DATA partners with Palo Alto Networks around Managed Detection and Response on Cortex platform
The expanded relationship between the two long-time partners brings NTT DATA’s Managed Extended Detection Response Service onto the Palo Alto Networks XSIAM Cortex platform, to add additional AI capabilities to threat monitoring, detection and rapid response.

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Cloud

New Sage study examines role of channel partners in evolving SMB market in Canada and U.S.

July 2, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Sage study examines role of channel partners in evolving SMB market in Canada and U.S.
Partners are engaging in significant changes to their business models to improve their capability to deliver new digitally-focused services that partners today are increasingly demanding.

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