Tag Archive for Automation

eXalt upgrades intelligence, customer experience in new KWaaS offering

eXalt has made B2B rules engines for IT companies for years, but has now revamped their offering for the digital era to adjust to modern customer preferences and buying patterns.

Nutanix enhances cloud platform with PernixData, Calm.io acquisitions

Nutanix makes its first foray into acquiring other people’s technology with a pair of deals designed to enhance their storage-class memory systems and improve their cloud automation and management capabilities.

Mobility-focused Pulseway launches new version of RMM solution for MSPs

Pulseway, whose RMM solution is specifically designed to work with mobile devices, has responded to customer feedback with Pulseway MSP, a version of their product designed specifically for MSPs. Major additions include white labelling capability and enhanced automation.

Artisan Infrastructure gets new name (Neverfail) new WaaS acquisition (Vertiscale)

Artisan Infrastucture’s broadening beyond its original wholesale infrastructure-as-a-service necessitated a new name change, particularly with more new offerings on the roadmap.

Nectar unveils QoS automation solution for collaboration environments on Cisco networks

Nectar also announced a second new offering, around Microsoft Skype, with a suite of cloud enablement solutions that parallels ones they had previously offered for on-prem deployments.

Enhanced Odin platform highlights Ingram Micro WPC cloud messaging to Microsoft partners

Renée Bergeron, senior vice president of global cloud channel at Ingram Micro

In addition to the Odin enhancements, Ingram Micro is emphasizing the relevance of their new referral program for Advisors, in the wake of Microsoft’s announcement that the program is being sunsetted.

Solution provider secrets of growing with Nutanix

Two of Nutanix’s top Canadian partners discuss the evolution of their companies’ relationship with Nutanix, from early days to the present and how they have become successful partnering with the company, while taking somewhat different strategies.

New Dell Validated System for SAP HANA Edge to bring HANA to SMBs

Other Dell SAP-related initiatives announced at SAPPHIRE NOW included ones around the Internet of Things, cloud blueprints to optimize SAP environments, and a new optimized architecture for SAP Foundation for Health.

Epicor promises both commitment and caution in move to the cloud

At its customer event, ERP vendor Epicor laid out its plans to become a cloud-first company, to which it asserted a strong commitment – even though the transition is greatly complicated by multiple factors.

AVG simplifies platform in Managed Workplace 10.0 to emphasize MSP business goals

The new version of AVG’s RMM platform reworks the platform around the MSPs business processes, greatly reducing installation time and building customizable customer service plans right into the RMM solution.

Riverbed responding to fundamental shift in deployment of IT services

At Riverbed’s partner event, their Chief Strategy Officer outlined a complex and model-driven paradigm of how modern IT services are being transformed digitally, and his view of how the company and its partners need to respond. Interestingly, partners seemed to get it.

IndependenceIT unveils Cloud Workspace Suite 5.0 in its biggest update ever

The move up from Version 4.2 includes the adoption of Azure Active Directory as the authentication of record, a new interface, Cloud Workspace Suite’s first app services, resource scheduling, server scaling and automatic server cloning.

Avaya urges partners to get their SDN fabric in front of customers

At an event Wednesday, Avaya strongly urged its partners to look closely at their networking fabric and the middleware which enables its automation, saying that it provides a clear path to smart computing and a strong differentiator from competitors.

Better network visibility can add thousands to your MSP bottom line. Here’s how.

IT security making poor use of analytics, Big Data: HPE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s third annual State of Security Operations Report finds that while security organizations are investing in analytics and Big Data, many are making preventable errors that give them a poor return on their investment.