May 23, 2018Mark CoxComments Off on Security, compliance and usability are enhancements in Pulse Connect Secure 9.0 release
Features likely to be of significant interest to the partner community include new Android on-demand capability, as well as deployment capability on AWS as well as Azure.
May 16, 2018Mark CoxComments Off on Veeam cloud company N2WS expands AWS solution support with Cloud Protection Manager 2.3 release
N2WS makes a sexy announcement expanding NoSQL support around Amazon DynamoDB, a solid announcement expanding support for Amazon Aurora databases, and a RESTful API announcement that will be of particular interest to channel partners.
May 4, 2018Mark CoxComments Off on Splunk stresses simplicity for smaller logos with no- or low-cost Insights for Infrastructure
Insights for infrastructure is aimed at the sub-$500 million segment, and while not an exclusive channel play, the channel will be an important part of the go-to-market strategy. It will also be available to MSPs, albeit in the single-tenant version that is standard for Splunk.
April 26, 2018Mark CoxComments Off on Liquidware strengthens DaaS appeal with new ability to save direct to object-based cloud storage
Liquidware also thinks that the capability to save directly to the AWS, Microsoft and Google object storage clouds, which is a first in this space, will also appeal to customers with a hybrid desktop computing strategy, who are not yet ready for a full move to DaaS.
April 17, 2018Mark CoxComments Off on DataStax makes major enhancements to Apache Cassandra with DataStax Enterprise 6
DataStax, which was the driver in building Apache Cassandra, makes major changes to the platform for the first time in their commercial product, to make it more enterprise-friendly by dramatically upgrading performance and removing manual work.
March 27, 2018Mark CoxComments Off on Pivot3 announces cloud version of their HCI offering for the AWS Cloud
The features of the next-gen Pivot3 Acuity platform introduced last year are being migrated to the cloud, beginning with using its dynamic provisioning capability for backup and disaster recovery.
March 16, 2018Mark CoxComments Off on Veritas broadens partner opportunities for NetBackup with RestAPI
In addition to introducing RestAPI for the first time, Veritas also extends the ability to support modern workloads that was first introduced in the previous NetBackup release.
March 9, 2018Mark CoxComments Off on McAfee enhances Cloud Security Platform in extending its support to Azure
The McAfee Skyhigh Security Cloud for Azure provides an enormous opportunity for the channel, with 50 per cent of enterprise customers projected by Gartner to buy their first CASB by 2020.