business continuity

Cloud

Pivot3 fills out HCI cloud strategy for partners by adding new capabilities, plus Azure and Google support

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 fills out HCI cloud strategy for partners by adding new capabilities, plus Azure and Google support
Pivot3 is stressing that while other HCI vendors have intelligent hybrid cloud strategies, they have one that is in production today.

Backup

Veeam advances strategic vision from availability to hyperavailability at VeeamON

May 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam advances strategic vision from availability to hyperavailability at VeeamON
The main Veeam announcement at this year’s VeeamON event is advancing their core branding, to keep up with customer expectations by providing fully automated data management as part of an availability strategy.

Backup

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.

Managed Services

Tintri, Neverfail partner on DRaaS solution

January 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tintri, Neverfail partner on DRaaS solution
The Tintri collaboration provides a packaged replication service for higher tier disaster recovery needs. It will be available through Neverfail partners, and will likely be able to be sold by Tintri partners too.

Cloud

New AWS services resonate with Canadian customers, channel partners

December 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New AWS services resonate with Canadian customers, channel partners
AWS made such a flurry of announcements at last week’s re:Invent event that it was sometimes difficult to keep track. Canadian partners and customers at the event did, however, have pretty clear ideas about what they liked.

Channel Programs

BlackBerry unveils new Crisis Communication channel specialization around AtHoc platform

December 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on BlackBerry unveils new Crisis Communication channel specialization around AtHoc platform
The invitation-only specialization is designed to create a relatively small nucleus of focused Crisis Communication experts within the BlackBerry Enterprise Partner Program.

Uncategorized

Aparavi emerges from stealth with SaaS platform for mid-market long term data retention

October 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Aparavi emerges from stealth with SaaS platform for mid-market long term data retention
The Aparavi leadership team is largely made up of executives from NovaStor, a classic legacy backup player, who got frustrated with the problems created by traditional data protection.

Channel Programs

Cloudistics enhances platform that takes on VMware ecosystem with on-prem cloud

August 11, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudistics enhances platform that takes on VMware ecosystem with on-prem cloud
The Cloudistics 3.2 release makes significant security and networking enhancements, and will be followed by some notable channel-side announcements next week.

Backup

Datto selects Pax8 for their first distribution deal

August 3, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datto selects Pax8 for their first distribution deal
Pax8 and Datto have announced a strategic partnership, which is what a company that has not used distribution before calls entering into its first distribution agreement.

Backup

New eFolder CEO Matt Nachtrab lays out strategy to take company to the next level

July 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New eFolder CEO Matt Nachtrab lays out strategy to take company to the next level
LabTech’s founder has an ambitious agenda, which involves improving the synergy of eFolder’s products, having a more systematic strategy around RMM and PSA integrations, and making eFolder the acknowledged technology leader in their space.