The new portfolio comes in three versions, with the Foundation Edition consisting of Veeam Backup and Replication v.12, the Advanced Edition adding Veeam ONE to this, and the Premium Edition adding both VeeamONE and Veeam Recovery Orchestrator.
The new offering gives both customers and Stratodesk’s channel partners much more flexibility than before.
The pending deal with Broadcom is only one of a variety of challenges Fine faces as she takes on the broader Americas role after a long tenure as Canadian channel lead.
Powell replaces Tara Fine, who was also promoted internally when she took over VMware’s global channel chief role.
Sasha Acosta has expanded both sales and sales engineer staff in Canada since his January appointment, including the hire of a channel manager.
Leostream 2022, the latest version of their enterprise platform, includes completely new and united versions of Leostream Gateway and LeosStream Connection Broker.
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.
VMware announced some major extensions to its strategic partner ecosystem, with the primary focus being deepening their joint focus around hybrid cloud strategy.
A new version of the VMware Partner Program set to roll out next February, making this inaugural VMware Explore event a very interesting one for Canadian partners.
Ricky Cooper, who has now formally assumed the permanent role of VMware global channel chief, talked with ChannelBuzz at the VMware Explore event about the initiatives they have planned even before the newly announced changes to the partner program kick in early next year.
CEO Raghu Raghuram gives his perspective on where the company is headed, and the new opportunities available to their broad ecosystem.
VMware’s traditional data centre solutions have been fundamentally redesigned and upgraded to make sure they remain a strong fit within the company’s broader multi-cloud strategy.
VMware Aria, which consists of VMware Aria Graph, a graph-based data store technology within VMware Aria Hub, allows for effective management of the entire multi-cloud environment.
In the two years since the IGEL Ready program began, IGEL has added 30 new partners to it, but this includes some major OEMs as well as more specialized players.
The new solution, now available in beta, integrates Teradici CAS and HP ZCentral Remote Boost into a new HP Anywhere offering that will provide secure access to digital workspaces from any mix of infrastructure to any device.
The expanded VMware relationship also gives partners and customers the ability to deploy the Stratodesk NoTouch Center management solution to the VMware Cloud.
Among the many announcements, the highlight was likely around RAN disintegration, where VMware partner DISH is building the first Open RAN 5G network from scratch.
Storage services, database services and end user computing services are also available as discrete packages, with the aim of all being to simplify things for customers and make the solutions easier for partners to sell.
Stratodesk began transitioning to a channel-first model last year, which saw more than half of all sales go through partners, a percentage which had never been above 5% before.
Nerdio also expands their U.K.-based sales organization and establishes their first in-country sales presence in the Australia/New Zealand [ANZ] region, as they continue to gear up for NerdioCon in Cancun next month, which will be a rare bird these days, a strictly on-prem annual conference.
