Tag Archive for Big Data

RMM/PSA provider Atera upgrades performance and release time with move to Microsoft Azure Service Fabric

Atera reworked their own platform to a microservices architecture to take advantage of the new platform, which also greatly improves their ability to work with Big Data.

DNS intelligence provider Farsight Security unveils first channel program for VARs

Farsight has had an OEM program to go to market with strategic vendor partners, but now is supplementing that with a new program to expand their reach further through the VAR channel. It formalizes a route to market that has been there before, but on an ad hoc and opportunistic basis.

Attunity unveils new solutions to automate the data pipeline to Azure

For channel partners, Attunity’s new level of automation of the data pipeline to the Azure cloud frees them from migration processes that took months, and lets them provide more strategic services to customers.

Ottawa-based UEBA provider Interset sees enormous opportunity in new CrowdStrike partnership

Interset’s technology managed to interest the venture capital fund of the U.S. Intel community, but until now their exposure to solution provider channel customers has been relatively limited. They expect the CrowdStrike partnership will change that.

WANDisco adds multi-cloud capability to platform with blockchain technology

WANDisco has developed and patented DConE, its own blockchain technology that they can use today to keep data consistent across multiple clouds, and which they plan to be able to eventually use to manage distributed blockchain environments as well.

Accelerite introduces no-code, serverless platform for end-to-end AWS analytics in ShareInsights 3.0 software

ShareInsights 3.0 is the first cloud-native version of the platform, which opens up AWS analytics to more users by abstracting the entire AWS analytics stack.

LogRhythm adds more SOAR capabilities into their next-gen SIEM with 7.4 software release

LogRhythm’s ongoing integration of SOAR automatic and response technology into their SIEM has led to a SOAR adoption rate over 30 times what Gartner had projected would be the industry average for standalone SOAR products by 2018.

ZeroStack extends templated services portfolio with Inter-Cloud VPN-as-a-service

The new VPN offering comes shortly after ZeroStack launched services around GPUs, Big Data, and DevOps, in order to provide partners with services offerings with additional revenue potential.

Naveego sees joint work on customer deployment with BI vendor Sisense as portent of more vendor collaborations

Data quality vendor Naveego has announced a collaboration with Sisense around one customer, and while this is not even a formal partnership, they believe that their synergies with BI vendors and ability to work easily with their platforms make such strategic partnerships an important part of their future.

Selling Splunk: Keeping Splunk’s sales strategy up to date with Splunk Next’s technology advances

Splunk introduced six new offerings at their .conf18 user conference, which are entering beta, and which are designed to open Splunk to large numbers of new customers. That market expansion will create new opportunities for the right partners.

New OEM and system integrator tracks highlight channel announcements at Spunk .conf

The new tracks – the last of those likely for specific types of partners – were announced at this event, and will go live at next year’s Global Partner Summit. Other channel changes include some enhancements to the certification process.

Splunk enhances analytics scalability, allows separate scaling of compute and storage and enables LOB users in new platform release

Splunk’s announcements at the outset of their Spunk .conf18 event include significant new updates of their Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud platforms

Microsoft Ignite Preview: Security, AI and the Edge

Microsoft is making literally dozens of announcements at the event, with Microsoft Authenticator, which the company says will end the era of passwords, and a new Microsoft Search at the top of all 365 apps likely to catch the most headlines.

Looker upgrades their platform’s machine learning with highly complementary Google Cloud BigQuery ML integration

The integration between Looker and BigQuery ML unites all elements of data scientist workflows, so they can do all their work without having to Leave Looker.

DataDirect Networks looks to pick up Tintri at pennies on the dollar

DataDirect Networks, which has been more of a Big Data than enterprise storage player, makes an enterprise storage play by bidding for the distressed assets of Tintri, which has always had interesting tech, but which got squeezed in a tight storage market.

OpenText CEO Barrenechea unveils new platform, augmented vision at EnterpriseWorld

The OpenText CEO kicked off his company’s flagship event by situating their corporate vision and strategy within the context of the massive changes in the industry that have taken place over the last year, and situating OpenText’s major announcement at the event within the context of that strategy.

Commvault beefs up AI search capability with Lucidworks partnership

The Commvault technology integration with Lucidworks will open up new conversations with partners where they can lead around search, and build their connections to a broader array of executive contacts beyond backup.

Imanis Data upgrades machine learning Data Management Platform as it expands channel strategy

Imanis Data is looking for selected channel partners who want to emphasize data management rather than just backup, and who get that this requires selling to the C-suite.

Western Digital looks to remake both its own image – and the data centre of the future

Western Digital is looking to drive massive change on two fronts. They are emphasizing their strong enterprise data centres today, and that the company is about far more than low-cost JBODs and consumer drives. They are also emphasizing their ability to play a key role in driving the technology of he data centre of the future.