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HP Anyware adds enhanced multi-use collaboration, federated authentication, with 23.04 release

May 19, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP Anyware adds enhanced multi-use collaboration, federated authentication, with 23.04 release
HP Anyware’s remote connectivity software, which combines HP’s old ZCentral Remote Boost Software with Teradici CAS and its PCoIP technology HP acquired two and a half years ago, gets upgrades which address some key pain points.

Artificial Intelligence

HPE makes major enhancements to Ezmeral Data Fabric Software

May 16, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE makes major enhancements to Ezmeral Data Fabric Software
HPE has greatly broadened the open source tools for Ezmeral it provides customers and partners, which have largely come into the company through acquisitions.

Channel Programs

Panasas reorients growth strategy around new product and channel strategies

May 12, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Panasas reorients growth strategy around new product and channel strategies
Panasas has substantially evolved their portfolio in the last few years to become much more of a software company, and is working on skilling up their channel further to sell the new solutions.

Software

Dell announces major security, efficiency improvements to PowerStore software

May 10, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell announces major security, efficiency improvements to PowerStore software
Other storage families in the Dell portfolio are also announcing some upgrades, but PowerStore is the major one this time around.

Channel Programs

Riverbed unveils new ACE program for MSPs selling Alluvio product family

May 8, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed unveils new ACE program for MSPs selling Alluvio product family
The new MSP program, the first shoe to drop in what will be a complete restructuring of Riverbed’s partner program by the end of this year, is focused on broadening Riverbed’s presence downmarket from their traditional enterprise base for their Alluvio Unified Observability Solutions.

Cloud

Zoho Canada SMB survey shows optimism, but some concerns lurk in the data

May 1, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zoho Canada SMB survey shows optimism, but some concerns lurk in the data
62% of SMBs were positive about the future, although growth expectations for most were tempered, and views about data privacy raise some concerns.

Artificial Intelligence

Conga launches Conga Revenue Lifecycle Cloud and announces expanded partnership

April 25, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Conga launches Conga Revenue Lifecycle Cloud and announces expanded partnership
The new Conga Revenue Lifecycle Cloud fundamentally reworks Conga’s solution portfolio by rearchitecting all their applications into microservices, while the expanded partnership with Accenture turns what had been reactive joint sales to customers into common sales and engineering activity where the two companies will collaborate much more extensively than in the past.

Channel Programs

Software collaboration vendor Appfire fine tunes channel strategy in move upmarket

April 17, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Software collaboration vendor Appfire fine tunes channel strategy in move upmarket
Appfire has been selling its software for years through a channel-first strategy, principally through the Atlassian platform and ecosystem, but has now formalized and beefed up its own channel program to make partners more productive and recruit more good ones.

Software

Zoho continues to unify collaboration experience with Zoho Trident

February 8, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zoho continues to unify collaboration experience with Zoho Trident
Trident, a native app to consume Zoho Workplace, is just one of several new collaboration experiences from Zoho, which they expect will ultimately expand beyond the Workplace apps into other areas like marketing and sales.

Software

Swedish PIM vendor inriver deepens North American push with new senior executive hires

January 19, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Swedish PIM vendor inriver deepens North American push with new senior executive hires
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.