Software

Cloud

Zoho extends enterprise strategy with new partnership with Tata Consultancy Services

November 18, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zoho extends enterprise strategy with new partnership with Tata Consultancy Services
Large GSIs are a critical part of Zoho’s push into larger enterprise deals, and they believe the TCS partnership will be a fruitful one in Canada.

Big Data

Ataccama moves from self-service to self-driving AI in second generation of its Ataccama ONE platform

November 18, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ataccama moves from self-service to self-driving AI in second generation of its Ataccama ONE platform

The second generation of Ataccama’s platform, which reworks and extends the innovations of the first generation of this offering, is now in limited beta and scheduled for GA in February,

Software

Diamanti continues software transition with standalone Diamanti Ultima Kubernetes data management solution

November 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Diamanti continues software transition with standalone Diamanti Ultima Kubernetes data management solution
While Diamanti Ultra continues Diamanti’s move from being hardware to software-focused, they are still working on putting their key storage and networking I/O offload technologies that optimize performance into the cloud.

Channel Programs

Ottawa-based digital supply chain management provider Kinaxis enhances partner program

November 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ottawa-based digital supply chain management provider Kinaxis enhances partner program
Kinaxis has seen a significant rise in demand for supply chain management solutions because of COVID, and has added significant new funds into a revamped partner program to help partners take advantage of that demand.

Backup

OpenText looks to leverage synergies from acquired SMB Carbonite-Webroot channel

October 27, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on OpenText looks to leverage synergies from acquired SMB Carbonite-Webroot channel
Prentiss Donohue, SVP of Partners and Alliances at OpenText, provides ChannelBuzz with a channel update, particularly around progress on bringing the newly acquired SMB channel into the broader ecosystem.

Cloud

Cloudify fills out multi-cloud orchestration capabilities by adding many new integrations

October 26, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudify fills out multi-cloud orchestration capabilities by adding many new integrations
Cloudify’s 5.1 release adds integrations to allow it to be an ‘orchestrator of orchestrators for all cloud environments, and also adds DevOps integrations for those environments.

Artificial Intelligence

TIBCO acquisition of Information Builders creates new channel synergies

October 26, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on TIBCO acquisition of Information Builders creates new channel synergies
By coincidence, TIBCO’s latest acquisition takes place as they are in the process of integrating the channel programs from previous acquisitions into a new and more diverse one, which should expedite the integration of the Information Builders partners.

Software

NetApp beefs up software portfolio with enhanced ONTAP, expanded Keystone and cloud SolidFire

October 20, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp beefs up software portfolio with enhanced ONTAP, expanded Keystone and cloud SolidFire
The ONTAP changes are highly significant and include the addition of both continuous data availability and S3 object services.

Managed Services

Warranty Master rebrands as ScalePad, adds software asset management capabilities

October 14, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Warranty Master rebrands as ScalePad, adds software asset management capabilities
ScalePad’s expansion of their services for MSPs to provide the same kinds of services for software that they have for hardware continues to extend their business beyond warranties.

Cloud

Sage Canadian Managing Director Nancy Tichbon bullish on Canadian market

October 9, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sage Canadian Managing Director Nancy Tichbon bullish on Canadian market
Tichbon, who has a telco background that she sees as highly relevant to the SaaS company that Sage is becoming, thinks Sage Intacct will be a key product in the Canadian market going forward.