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Cloud

Kaspersky Lab reaches for the public cloud with new Hybrid Cloud Security solution

April 18, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaspersky Lab reaches for the public cloud with new Hybrid Cloud Security solution
The new offering, the first from Kaspersky Lab to provide public cloud protection, will start with support for the AWS and Azure clouds.

Cloud

DataStax makes major enhancements to Apache Cassandra with DataStax Enterprise 6

April 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments 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.

Backup

Pivot3 announces cloud version of their HCI offering for the AWS Cloud

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments 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.

Backup

Veritas broadens partner opportunities for NetBackup with RestAPI

March 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments 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.

Cloud

McAfee enhances Cloud Security Platform in extending its support to Azure

March 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments 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.

Networking

Fortinet adds 11 new vendor partners to Fabric-Ready program in embrace of co-opetition strategy

February 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Fortinet adds 11 new vendor partners to Fabric-Ready program in embrace of co-opetition strategy
Fortinet now has 42 strategic vendor partnerships, which include many direct competitors, and these relationships are critical to their Security Fabric strategy.

Cloud

HyperGrid pivots to ‘software-defined cloud’ vision as they release new version of HyperCloud platform

February 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HyperGrid pivots to ‘software-defined cloud’ vision as they release new version of HyperCloud platform
HyperGrid’s new version of HyperCloud adds new capabilities and services around workload placement, improves multi-tenancy further, and now provides support for Kubernetes as well as Docker.

Mobility

Riverbed enhances SteelConnect SD-WAN with Xirrus integration, AWS and Azure direct connectivity

February 21, 2018 Mark Cox 1
A third enhancement, new SteelConnect support for LTE uplinks, is more of a niche feature in North America except in remote regions, although it is still sometimes used as a backup system.

Cloud

Is 2018 the year for Desktops-as-a-Service?

February 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Is 2018 the year for Desktops-as-a-Service?
A solution provider panel at the recent IGEL customer event discussed the evolution of the DaaS market and what they see as the opportunities – and pitfalls – for the channel.

Cloud

Palo Alto Networks to enhance full range of protection for full range of public clouds

February 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks to enhance full range of protection for full range of public clouds
Improvements to Palo Alto Networks’ Next-Generation Security Platform will extend inline, API-based and host based are protections for all three major public clouds.