Big Data

Managed Services

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

March 15, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Channel Programs

DNS intelligence provider Farsight Security unveils first channel program for VARs

February 27, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Cloud

Attunity unveils new solutions to automate the data pipeline to Azure

February 14, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Partnerships

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

February 6, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Big Data

WANDisco adds multi-cloud capability to platform with blockchain technology

January 16, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Big Data

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

December 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Uncategorized

Dell Technologies lays out AI strategy to unlock the power of data

November 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies lays out AI strategy to unlock the power of data
Dell CEO Michael Dell and Dell EMC Global CTO John Roese laid out the Dell view of AI and the IoT, and the company’s strategy to lead the market in addressing them.

Security

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

November 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Cloud

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

November 1, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Big Data

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

October 30, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.