Security

Cloud

Palo Alto stresses breakthrough innovation across massive range of new launches

February 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto stresses breakthrough innovation across massive range of new launches
Palo Alto identifies five areas of innovation within a wide-ranging series of announcements, although the most exciting appear to be around the expansion of threat protection capabilities, including credential theft protection.

Mobility

Absolute brings its Persistence self-healing technology to endpoints

February 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Absolute brings its Persistence self-healing technology to endpoints
Absolute leverages the technology that it embeds in firmware into an endpoint solution which provides an added level of resilience to designated applications.

Cloud

Carbon Black looks to reshape anti-virus market with new Streaming Prevention technology

February 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Carbon Black looks to reshape anti-virus market with new Streaming Prevention technology
The new Streaming Prevention technology, which will be added to the existing Cb Defense endpoint product in the spring, is designed to stop non-malware as well as malware attacks.

Security

Comodo beefs up endpoint protection solution with enhanced Mac, new Linux support

February 3, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Comodo beefs up endpoint protection solution with enhanced Mac, new Linux support
Comodo’s endpoint solution is relatively new to the market, but has posted strong adoption rates and has just been added to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

Managed Services

Webroot targets different partner segments with three new product announcements

February 2, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Webroot targets different partner segments with three new product announcements
Webroot SecureAnywhere DNS Protection is aimed at the SMB MSP market, while Webroot FlowScape Analytics is more for MSSPs and Webroot BrightCloud Streaming Malware Detection is primarily an OEM play.

Security

LookingGlass brings multiple technologies into new ScoutShield Threat Intelligence Gateway

February 1, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on LookingGlass brings multiple technologies into new ScoutShield Threat Intelligence Gateway
ScoutShield uses technology from LookingGlass’s 2015 acquisitions of CloudShield and Cyveillance to create a Threat Intelligence Gateway that integrates with the LookingGlass ScoutVison threat intelligence platform.

Channel Programs

AppRiver upgrades free email marketing tool for partners

January 31, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on AppRiver upgrades free email marketing tool for partners
AppRiver had a pre-templated campaign tool before, but it was limited to Office 365. The new one covers a broad range of their solutions, with 12 templates at launch, and more scheduled to be added.

Cloud

New Ivanti brand for LANDESK-HEAT union to focus on unified secure workplace message

January 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Ivanti brand for LANDESK-HEAT union to focus on unified secure workplace message
LANDESK had been working on rebranding itself for nine months, and the bringing together of the company with HEAT Software into Ivanti provides an ideal opportunity to create a brand – and a strategy around it – to cross-market and cross-sell all the company’s solutions.

Cloud

Barracuda adds virtual and public cloud firewalls for MSPs

January 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda adds virtual and public cloud firewalls for MSPs
Barracuda thinks that adding these other MSP firewall options will let MSPs create strong services packages with high appeal to customers.

Data Centre

New Pivot3 Canada country manager Grant Aitken looks to raise company visibility

January 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Pivot3 Canada country manager Grant Aitken looks to raise company visibility
Pivot3’s hyper-converged Canadian business is much stronger today in the physical security space than in compute, and addressing that is one of ex-VMware Canadian country manager’s Aitken’s top priorities.