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Kaseya upgrades their Office 365 Backup capability with Spanning partnership

April 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaseya upgrades their Office 365 Backup capability with Spanning partnership
The new offering is much stronger than what Kaseya had before for Office 365 Backup, and is something that Kaseya partners should be able to sell to their own customers at a good margin,

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Rubrik introduces complementary Polaris SaaS platform that creates unified system of record

April 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik introduces complementary Polaris SaaS platform that creates unified system of record
Rubrik Polaris is a separate SaaS platform that provides a new turnkey offering that partners can offer to their existing install base, and which should itself generate new sales of entire Rubrik systems among compliance-minded customers.

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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.

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Strong SMB momentum makes Cohesity first winner of SHI’s Emerging Partner of the Year award

March 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Strong SMB momentum makes Cohesity first winner of SHI’s Emerging Partner of the Year award
Cohesity also met another key criteria for the award, that a vendor provide clear and consistent support to the channel.

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Acronis partners with Google Cloud, with integrations coming soon

March 7, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Acronis partners with Google Cloud, with integrations coming soon
Support for the Google Cloud will be integrated into each Acronis solution at their next release, and Acronis will release a specific backup for Google’s G Suite before the first half of the year ends.

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Expansion of Infinidat partnership to sales portents new focus in Commvault strategic alliances

February 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Expansion of Infinidat partnership to sales portents new focus in Commvault strategic alliances
Commvault also announces Andy Vandeveld, most recently at Veeam, as Vice President of Worldwide Alliances, in a move that signals an increased focus on strategic alliances as a route to market rather than just technology integrations.

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Carbonite continues aggressive acquisition strategy with definitive agreement to acquire Mozy

February 14, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Carbonite continues aggressive acquisition strategy with definitive agreement to acquire Mozy
Carbonite aims to become the dominant player in data protection, and acquisitions like Mozy are a key part of their growth plans.

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Arcserve announces cloud-first DR with near-zero cloud recovery points

January 30, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve announces cloud-first DR with near-zero cloud recovery points
Arcserve brings the technology adapted from last year’s acquisition of Zetta to market, with the ability to deliver the go-to-market potential that always eluded Zetta.

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Enhancing upstream, downstream alliances top priority for new eFolder Channel Chief Bystrak

January 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Enhancing upstream, downstream alliances top priority for new eFolder Channel Chief Bystrak
Jason Bystrak, who officially joins eFolder from Ingram Micro in another week, wants to leverage his experience to build out both a stronger system of vendor strategic alliances, and a focused distribution strategy, to extend eFolder’s reach and position them as a logical challenger to Datto.

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IT Cloud launching BDR appliance service with StorageCraft tech for small Canadian MSPs

January 18, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on IT Cloud launching BDR appliance service with StorageCraft tech for small Canadian MSPs
IT Cloud Solutions is also now offering StorageCraft Cloud Backup for Microsoft Office 365 to their MSPs.