The new AWS services include a service to get started in IoT, one to manage fleets of devices, ones for security and analytics, one for small devices without CPUs, and one to run machine learning at the edge.
AWS’ Global Partner Summit was chock full of news, including a redo of the partner program, new competencies in machine learning and networking, with more on the way, and major changes to AWS Marketplace.
Datrium is offering its backup and DR recovery for the AWS cloud as basically a managed service, where the customer works through the Datrium interface and doesn’t have to learn the intricacies of managing AWS.
On the heels of a key new partnership with HPE, the extension of the WekaIO relationship with AWS significantly strengthens the startup’s go-to-market positioning.
Being named an Advanced Tier partner deepens the joint sales relationship between Komprise and AWS, provides access to co-marketing funds, and gives them a dedicated AWS partner manager.
Veritas is hoping that many of its customers will move to its new subscription option, while also emphasizing that the new model’s simplicity will make life easier for partners.
Salesforce and Google have announced a major extension to their existing partnership, which will see much deeper integrations. It will not, however, place Google in a preferred position above AWS as a public cloud provider. “This is the best of both worlds for our mutual customers,” said Ryan Aytay, EVP Business Development and Strategic Accounts…
Arbor Networks has reached the SME space mainly through managed services until now, but is now offering alternatives in appliance, virtual, and AWS instance form factors.
NetApp has announced upgrades to key software products that make up their Data Fabric, including ONTAP 9.3.
NetApp indicated no plans to extend this service capability to AWS, although from a functionality purpose it is the logical extension of this deal.
VIPRE Endpoint Security – Cloud Edition, is a built for the cloud solution, not its server product ported into the cloud.
Data management vendor Rubrik also adds support for the Google Cloud Platform, extends their AWS support, and improves management security for MSPs.
Comtrade launched their purpose-built solution for Nutanix three months ago. The new version includes the ability to set Nutanix Storage Dense nodes as backup targets, and adding autodiscovery for Microsoft Active Directory.
The changes, which will see partners who sell through the cloud Exchanges receive back-end rebates and program credit for the first time, are part of a new initiative that establishes a new Sophos Cloud Security Provider cert in the company’s partner program.
ATADATA has always sold through the channel, but it has mainly been on an ad hoc basis. Now they are formalizing things with their first channel program, and are looking to add partners who are a good fit.
The Azure component is especially significant, as Zerto becomes the first vendor to support replication from the Azure cloud, as well as into it.
The new enhancements make multiple software-based upgrades to the Tintri platform.
Barracuda Backup joins their firewall solutions in being authorized and enabled for the AWS cloud, with the Azure cloud next on the priority list.
Agiloft still has no partners in Canada, but they are hoping that their just-announced capacity to offer Canada-based hosting of their business process automation offerings will change that.
The enhancements, which include support for Oracle RMAN and SQL, as well as the Hyper-V and Nutanix Acropolis hypervisors, strengthen the Rubrik enterprise play.
