Automation

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.