Automation

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Data adds Robotic Process Automation solutions to line card in U.S. and Canada with Automation Anywhere partnership

March 29, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tech Data adds Robotic Process Automation solutions to line card in U.S. and Canada with Automation Anywhere partnership
Automation Anywhere’s software robotics will allow partners involved in business process automation to scale it up more rapidly and at lower cost.

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Managed Services

SOAR vendor DFLabs unveils platform optimized for MSSPs

March 4, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on SOAR vendor DFLabs unveils platform optimized for MSSPs
While DFLabs’ platform already supported multi-tenancy, it has added the ability to manage large numbers of divergent third-party devices at customer sites with vendor-agnostic runbooks in this new optimization for MSSP and Managed Detection and Response providers.

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Channel Programs

Exabeam reworks technology partner program to reflect its maturity as a SIEM company

March 1, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Exabeam reworks technology partner program to reflect its maturity as a SIEM company
San Mateo-based Exabeam has announced a restructuring of its Technology Alliance Partner Program, which sees it move from the flat program that is typical of many technology partner programs into a three-tiered program based on the nature of their strategic alliances.

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Cloud

Attunity unveils new solutions to automate the data pipeline to Azure

February 14, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Attunity unveils new solutions to automate the data pipeline to Azure
For channel partners, Attunity’s new level of automation of the data pipeline to the Azure cloud frees them from migration processes that took months, and lets them provide more strategic services to customers.

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Internet of Things

Nozomi Networks continues to address IT/OT convergence issues with Schneider Electric partnership

January 16, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nozomi Networks continues to address IT/OT convergence issues with Schneider Electric partnership
This global deal, which is a very significant one for both companies, also has implications for Nozomi Networks’ strategy of bridging the gap between IT and OT, and for their IT vendor partners like Cisco and Fortinet and their joint channel partners.

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Partnerships

HPE, Datera partner on ‘ScaleIO-killer’ solution

January 15, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE, Datera partner on ‘ScaleIO-killer’ solution
Datera, which now has EMC veteran Guy Churchward at the helm, will also join the HPE Complete program, with a strategy that remains vendor-agnostic, but which for the moment has a strong leaning towards HPE.

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Managed Services

RapidFire Tools enables MSP delivery of automated ongoing HIPAA compliance solution with new Audit Guru for HIPAA

January 9, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on RapidFire Tools enables MSP delivery of automated ongoing HIPAA compliance solution with new Audit Guru for HIPAA
RapidFire Tools also sees the new offering’s platform as being one that can handle multiple compliance regimes. It already supports GDPR, and they intend to roll out additional regulatory support this year.

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Managed Services

Liongard strengthens automated documentation platform as IT Glue acquisition by Kaseya impacts documentation landscape

December 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Liongard strengthens automated documentation platform as IT Glue acquisition by Kaseya impacts documentation landscape
Liongard’s new Metrics feature gives their MSPs the ability to generate their own metrics to provide deeper insight into issues of concern to their customers.

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Cloud

HPE extends hybrid cloud composable strategy with HPE Composable Cloud

November 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE extends hybrid cloud composable strategy with HPE Composable Cloud
The big announcement is that the composable capabilities of HPE Synergy has now been extended to rack server environments, but there are several other related goodies, including the expansion of the InfoSight predictive analytics from HPE Nimble beyond storage to all of the infrastructure.

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Channel Programs

SOAR vendor Siemplify brings in Bradd Barmettler as first global channel chief to execute transition to partner-led model

November 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SOAR vendor Siemplify brings in Bradd Barmettler as first global channel chief to execute transition to partner-led model
Barmettler’s planned initiatives include a major revamp of the Siemplify channel program. He also wants to build out a channel presence in Canada, where he has had success in the past at other companies.

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Backup

Cohesity announces additional AWS integrations around Snowball, DR and cloud backup

November 26, 2018 Mark Cox 1
At the AWS Re:Invent event, Cohesity is emphasizing the significance of the AWS partnership to the company’s growing cloud business, by formally announcing and emphasizing the significance of AWS-related enhancements that have become available.

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Cloud

Fugue publicly launches Risk Manager automated SaaS offering at AWS

November 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Fugue publicly launches Risk Manager automated SaaS offering at AWS
A standalone SaaS product drawn from their Fugue Platform, Risk Manager is a cloud-native monitoring and compliance enforcement solution that establishes good baseline configuration in regulatory environments, monitors drift from them, and has the ability to use automated remediation to correct drift if the customer wants that.

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Managed Services

Automated documentation software maker Liongard roars at ConnectWise Connect event

November 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Automated documentation software maker Liongard roars at ConnectWise Connect event
Liongard continues to extend its value proposition of automating the ingestion of data into documentation and other software platforms for MSPs.

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Managed Services

Cylance looks to further boost rapidly growing MSP business with ConnectWise integration

November 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cylance looks to further boost rapidly growing MSP business with ConnectWise integration
Cylance has made their first partnership with an RMM vendor, integrating their two flagship products into ConnectWise Automate. They have plans to expand this ecosystem further.

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Cloud

‘We want to be your transformation partner’: Boomi CEO Chris McNabb

November 7, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on ‘We want to be your transformation partner’: Boomi CEO Chris McNabb
On the first day of the main Boomi World event, the CEO laid out the company’s vision, and, joined by Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, laid out how Boomi customers can both expand beyond integration on the Boomi platform, and leverage the other Dell Technologies companies.

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Data Centre

VxRail, VxBlock get significant enhancements in Dell EMC VMware-related announcements

November 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on VxRail, VxBlock get significant enhancements in Dell EMC VMware-related announcements
A new VxRail integration with Dell EMC Smart Fabric Services provides VxRail with automated networking configuration, while VxBlock gets major awareness, automation and analytics upgrades to its software.

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Security

Okta looks to extend VMware Workspace ONE business with two channel promos

November 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Okta looks to extend VMware Workspace ONE business with two channel promos
The promos for VMware Workspace ONE Advanced and VMware Workspace ONE Enterprise are specifically for joint Okta-VMware channel partners.

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Security

LogRhythm adds more SOAR capabilities into their next-gen SIEM with 7.4 software release

November 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on LogRhythm adds more SOAR capabilities into their next-gen SIEM with 7.4 software release
LogRhythm’s ongoing integration of SOAR automatic and response technology into their SIEM has led to a SOAR adoption rate over 30 times what Gartner had projected would be the industry average for standalone SOAR products by 2018.

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Data Centre

Hitachi Vantara adds agility to data centre portfolio with hyperconverged, converged portfolio upgrades

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox 1
The HCI part of the portfolio introduces the first NVMe offering, while new support on the CI side was announced that will support very large deployments, and a refresh of the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor’s management and orchestration software was announced.

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Data Centre

Hitachi Vantara expands cloud services with Smart Data Center enhancements

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara expands cloud services with Smart Data Center enhancements
The upgrades to Smart Data Center follow up a new solution for modern policing, Hitachi Digital Evidence Management.

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