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Cloud

Adobe kicks off virtual tech customer event season

April 1, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Adobe kicks off virtual tech customer event season
Adobe’s virtual Summit, a concession to the unprecedented circumstances created by the coronavirus pandemic, becomes the first annual customer event to try the virtual approach. While new product and strategic direction received less attention than at a regular event, and customer experience rather more, for Adobe specifically, that’s likely enough.

Software

Rancher Labs puts support for over one million Kubernetes clusters on roadmap

March 31, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rancher Labs puts support for over one million Kubernetes clusters on roadmap
Today, with Rancher 2.4, the company is scaling up to go from managing a few dozen clusters in the very recent past, to 2000 today, and to a million clusters or more looking forward, as IoT edge use cases ramp up demand.

Security

Titus Illuminate 2020 integrates with new Titus Accelerator for Privacy solution

March 25, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Titus Illuminate 2020 integrates with new Titus Accelerator for Privacy solution
Titus’ integrating capabilities of their two newer product sets creates new synergies in their expanded market strategy, and is complemented by a deepening of their channel Go-to-Market model.

Artificial Intelligence

ServiceNow adds Now Intelligence analytics to its platform with Orlando release

March 11, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on ServiceNow adds Now Intelligence analytics to its platform with Orlando release
Now Intelligence consists of both new and enhanced features around the AI and analytics theme, in the same way some past releases have emphasized the enhancement of a related series of capabilities.

Artificial Intelligence

Conga enhances Digital Document Transformation Suite with new AI and automation features

February 27, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Conga enhances Digital Document Transformation Suite with new AI and automation features
Conga kicks off their annual customer event in Orlando with a broad refresh of their solution set.

Cloud

CloudBolt extends Kubernetes and Terraform support in new release of cloud management platform

February 24, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on CloudBolt extends Kubernetes and Terraform support in new release of cloud management platform
CloudBolt also announces new integrations for IBM Cloud, IBM Cloud for Government, VMware Cloud on AWS, and Red Hat OpenShift in their 9.2 software release.

Software

Strong health care opportunity in end user computing drives Goliath partnership with IGEL

February 10, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Strong health care opportunity in end user computing drives Goliath partnership with IGEL
Goliath Technologies, which provides performance monitoring for end user computing, and has a strong focus on the health care vertical, recently talked with ChannelBuzz about where they fit into the market.

Channel Programs

Ivanti reworks channel model as part of new customer for life focus

February 3, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ivanti reworks channel model as part of new customer for life focus
Ivanti looks to reverse past errors by introducing a Chief Customer Officer and a focus on making customers happy rather than end-of-lifing their products. That will see renewals centralized in a new business unit. That change to channel policy is accompanied by another in which the company will focus on far fewer partners.

Backup

OpenText lays out roadmap to drive acquired Carbonite and Webroot business forward

January 16, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on OpenText lays out roadmap to drive acquired Carbonite and Webroot business forward
Craig Stilwell, who runs the new SMB and Consumer unit at OpenText, talks with ChannelBuzz about OpenText’s strategy to make its new acquisition a successful one.

Cloud

FinancialForce unveils Winter 2020 pre-release, announces GA of Fall 2019 release

January 15, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on FinancialForce unveils Winter 2020 pre-release, announces GA of Fall 2019 release
The themes of both releases are enhancing user experience and deepening analytics, themes which will continue to be key going forward.