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New Year’s Podcast Series: Pat Finerty of SAS Canada

Pat Finerty, vice president of alliances and channels for Canada and Latin America at SAS Institute

SAS’s vice president of channels and alliances on why and how the analytics and AI powerhouse is building out its channel business, opportunities for solution providers, highlights of its business in 2018, and plans for 2019 in this edition of the Podcast.

Palo Alto Networks expands Google partnership to leverage Google Cloud AI capabilities

As part of the enhanced relationship with Google, Palo Alto Networks will now run their Application Framework and GlobalProtect cloud service in the Google Cloud, as they believe its analytics capabilities are the best fit for these applications.

eSentire strengthens threat hunting capabilities in MDR platform with acquisition of AI-focused Versive

Versive had been selling direct, so their technology is not well known in the channel, but eSentire thinks that it will further enhance their already strong threat hunting capabilities.

Cisco Canada emphasizes progress, passion and possibilities at Cisco Connect event in Toronto

Cisco Canada President Rola Dagher recounted Cisco Canada’s trumps over the last year, which saw Canada named as Cisco’s top theatre for growth, while also highlighting the initiative Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins launched the previous day in conjunction with Deloitte and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Splunk adds specific KPI predictive analytics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.0

The general ramp up of the ITSI predictive analytics solution also includes new integrations with VictorOps and Splunk App for Infrastructure.

Pure Storage unveils AIRI Mini as ‘game changer’ to democratize AI in the enterprise

AIRI Mini is a joint engineering initiative between Pure and NVIDIA that provides an AI-focused solution with much less compute capability than AIRI, announced in March. It thus has a much lower entry point, and the companies think it will lead to strong interactions between infrastructure teams and data scientists.

Trend Micro email writing analysis technology highlights their RSA phishing announcements

Trend Micro also announced a free phishing simulator for business, as well as their participation in a new vendor alliance that pledges to customers it will not assist any government in offensive cyber-operations.

Aruba enhances new Mobile First Architecture, and announces non-traditional partners around it

While the new partners in the ArubaEdge Technology Partner Program are decidedly non-traditional, Aruba also says they will open up new opportunities to traditional partners, in the same way the entry of voice-based telco partners in the early days of convergence created massive opportunities for the IT channel.

Paperspace launches Gradient suite to bring GPU Compute and machine learning to developers

Gradient provides tools that enables organizations to leverage GPU Compute to make machine learning easier, and the channel is one way that Paperspace is reaching new customers.

The rise of AI needs to be controlled, report warns

A new study takes a look at the potential security weakpoints that could emerge as AI continues to rise, if the industry doesn’t take the right steps to secure its creations.Much ink, digital and otherwise, has been spilled on the vast range of extraordinary opportunities enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Now,…

Cloudian, Skymind partner to democratize artificial intelligence and machine learning tools

Cloudian and Skymind will jointly create integrated AI and machine learning solutions, with the first being a security monitoring tool based on pattern recognition

Fundamental redesign of Dell Workstations enables immersive, AI-driven tomorrow

Dell is stressing that its recent workstations announcement is far more than just the latest feeds and speeds, but is part of a strategy to give customers the massive capabilities, immersive computing, and virtual reality of an AI-driven future that has already started.

Calgary’s Wedge Networks looks to channel for enterprise push with malware-blocking product

Wedge has partnered with Cylance to bring its AI-based technology into Wedge’s new enterprise product, which also marks the first time Cylance’s technology will be used beyond the endpoint.