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HEAT sees major tech, business benefits in acquiring Absolute Manage, Service businesses

September 22, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The strategic acquisition of assets Absolute wanted to divest to focus on its core business continues HEAT’s transition from FrontRange’s old SMB business to an integrated endpoint management platform that increasingly appeals to enterprises

Intronis stresses better user experience with Summer Release ‘15

June 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

A new dashboard provides a macro-level view that did not exist before, and a new Executive Summary report generator provides customers with brandable and customizable snapshots which demonstrate the MSP’s value.

SAP Anywhere SMB front office suite to debut in China market

May 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

SAP is describing SAP as a new type of product, which allows SMBs to manage front office applications using real time analytics, and which has been built and priced specifically for this market.

GhanghorCloud emerges from stealth with new information security and compliance solutions

April 15, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

GhangorCloud’s security solutions have a higher degree of policy automation, which helps reduce their cost, especially on the OPEX side. They also use real time identity management for more stringent access control by individuals to specific data.

Arrow to bring Permabit’s data efficiency appliance to IBM storage partners

April 9, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Permabit’s deal with Arrow to bring its data efficiency appliance designed to let the older OEMs compete with the new hyperscale vendors makes IBM the third vendor to bring this technology on board, following EMC and NetApp last fall.

Qumulo breaks stealth with data-aware scale-out NAS

March 16, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Qumulo’s software, sold as 1U appliance nodes, integrates real-time data analytics directly into storage, to make data and storage resources much more visible. They sell only through the channel.

MSP Unified Office adds analytics to managed hybrid cloud

January 28, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

A year out of the gate, Unified Office is going after the 10-100 space with a high-quality VoIP offering sold through channel partners, and has now added an optional analytics suite.

Canadian C-levels clueless on cloud?

October 31, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

A new survey commissioned by Microsoft found under 5 per cent of Canadian C level execs understand what the cloud is, but the reality is somewhat different.