This is all part of a change in strategy following the company’s purchase by a growth-focused American venture company, which also includes the appointment of a new CEO.
Larissa Crandall becomes Vice President of Global Channel and Alliances, the first time Veeam has brought these areas together globally under a single executive.
Veeam is also announcing a free 50-seat version of the native backup application for Salesforce, and indicated that a couple more product-specific like this one and an earlier one for Microsoft 365 are on the roadmap.
Most QuickBooks data is not backed up today, in part because Quickbooks’ own backup options are limited, and expensive for smaller businesses.
Kurmi’s focus is on enterprise UC provisioning and the new version of the suite extends support for Avaya, Cisco, and Microsoft.
SAP also announced a partnership with training platform provider Coursera to train new professional developers for entry level jobs in the SAP ecosystem.
Today Sage is announcing a renewal of its sponsorship of the Canada Games movement, following up on the announcement that Sage Membership and Masterclass is now available in Canada.
The new channel program is particularly designed to support partner types like system integrators and CSPs that CloudBees has recently made a priority in their channel-building efforts.
OpenText’s new CE 22.4 release was clearly set within the Titanium roadmap, and while the final stage of that roadmap, the integration of MicroFocus, remains under wraps till the deal closes, the successful turnaround of Documentum under OpenText’s stewardship augurs well here.
Barrenechea, commenting on OpenText’s ongoing transition from an on-prem company to a cloud one, joked that being reborn in the cloud is better than being born in the cloud.
They include new Lenovo V3 Infrastructure solutions, a new Lenovo XClarity One cloud-based software management platform, and the fifth generation of Lenovo Neptune water-cooling technology.
Manager Hub, Admin Center, ServiceNow Vault and the expansion of Auto Resolution to Human Resources are all highlights of the new release.
Salesforce also unveiled some major enhancements to Slack as well as Net Zero Marketplace, a platform designed to make carbon credit purchases simpler and more transparent.
The Cornwall office fits with Zoho’s overall hub and spoke strategy, and enables the high emphasis they are placing on a bilingual strategy and being able to communicate with French speaking customers in French.
Riverbed launches a new SaaS solution on its own platform, bringing a state of the art solution to the market, on a platform that will eventually move beyond SaaS.
The new Competency Framework from SAP PartnerEdge is an explicit all-in on cloud model which does not reward on-prem projects, and which introduces seven new competencies.
CommandCTRL is a next-generation SaaS helpdesk solution, built from the ground up for that role, and while it is a separate product designed to complement Stratusphere UX, it will also play much further downmarket to SMBs and MSPs in that space.
PRM provider Impartner continues the expansion of their channel routes to market, choosing TDSYNNEX to work with in a North America-wide deal in large part because of the distributor’s close work with Microsoft.
Mark Hickman becomes one of the rare executives from outside Sage to take the Canadian country manager position, and he talks with ChannelBuzz about how he sees the company and what Sage partners can expect going forward.
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.
