Tag Archive for Azure

Ingram Micro brings platform businesses together under CloudBlue brand

Ingram Micro announces CloudBlue, a new brand for its cloud platform business, planning to ramp up its offerings for service providers and Cloud Marketplace customers alike.

VMware expands NSX platform into Virtual Cloud Network portfolio

The new portfolio is largely an extension of existing NSX capabilities, but there are some new wrinkles, and VMware’s choice to lead the business unit may be particularly well-timed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Veritas adds cloud-based data protection for Azure and Google with CloudPoint 2.0

While CloudPoint 1.0 was all about snapshotting, 2.0 layers on additional data protection capabilities. It’s available now for Azure and Google, with AWS not that far off.

Cogeco Peer 1 addition of Managed Microsoft Azure Services should be major play for growing channel

In the last year, Cogeco Peer 1 has re-embraced the channel in Canada, and sees core offerings like this one as critical to channel growth, which in turn they see as critical for the company.

eG Innovations offers native monitoring for Citrix in cloud environment in Enterprise 6.3 release

While eG Innovations has a broad portfolio of offerings, half of their revenues are related to Citrix, so the lion’s share of the enhancements in this release are Citrix-related as well.

EXCLUSIVE: Barracuda partners with browser-based unified workspace vendor Awingu

The solution will be easy for partners to put together, and is available broadly through distribution, without requiring certification. It is available now for the Azure cloud, with further cloud support on the horizon.

ITaaS software maker Nerdio enhances Nerdio for Azure with Cost Estimator

The Cost Estimator, which addresses the problem that Azure itself makes it difficult for MSPs to easily estimate costs because it is consumption-based, joins white-labelling as recent enhancements to the Nerdio offering.

New subscription-based model highlights new version of Veritas Backup Exec

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.

Tech Data looks to drive channel cloud analytics adoption with 30 Day Program

The program, which Tech Data sees as a differentiator for them in the market, is designed to provide a repeatable cloud data migration and integration framework that will provide a proof of value in under 30 days.