At its ChannelCon event, CompTIA reported results of research it commissioned on why the tech industry is increasingly failing to recruit suitable numbers of young players. Those findings indicated the industry has been using completely ineffective strategies, and needs to work on coming up with a different approach.
SecuriSync had backup technology before that Intermedia considered to be better than their standalone backup offering. Now the backup has been further rounded out, and SecuriSync has been upgraded to a formally converged offering, at the same price as the old file sharing service.
Druva is mainly focused on the enterprise space, and its new MSP channel will give them a stronger presence downmarket. They are especially looking to recruit new MSPs who have no data centre.
One interesting data point was a 220 per cent year over year increase in server revenues, when most distributors indicated that sales from Microsoft’s dropping support for Server 2003 had been disappointing.
While Sage is doing well in Canada, new cloud initiatives should strengthen it further. A cloud option for their Sage X3 offering is now available. Sage Live, a new type of cloud accounting product is now available in the U.S., will soon be in Canada, and will require new types of value-added partners.
The new offerings benefit from the thirteenth generation of Dell servers, but also have new configurability and support flexibility options which can bring down the price point significantly.
Two new systems were announced, the FlashSystem 900, a pure speed system aimed at traditional flash use cases, and the V9000, which IBM believes can replace high end spinning disk arrays.
Azure becomes the first public cloud supported by Avamar outside the EMC federation.
SAP’s new strategic investment in Canada is part of a strategy to help its Canadian channel partners significantly grow their cloud business
Imation sees a strongly developing market for Windows to Go, and wants partners with the right Microsoft competencies.
New program to roll out over 24 months, will introduce new Cisco partner requirments for Gold around Hybrid IT, cloud, and managed services.
On the eve of Interop, HP debuts its own unified enterprise networking architecture
