Avnet will also distribute the HotLink Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering in the U.S., and Canada, an offering that Hotlink thinks is exceptionally well-suited to the channel.
CloudJumper, which was IndependenceIT’s largest white label partner, acquires approximately 60 partners in an IndependenceIT focused business unit, most of whom they expect will move to the CloudJumper platform.
Igloo, which makes a cloud-based SaaS solution that includes Intranets within a broad array of collaboration and other business apps, presently has no partners in North America. Now, however, having piloted a partner program in other geos last year, they are looking to change that.
In this sponsored video from Avnet Technology Solutions, SIS discuss how working with the distributor is helping them evolve towards managed services.
Xirrus added CommandCenter to the Xirrus Management System for MSPs last March to make the provisioning process quicker, and now has augmented it further.
Cloud-focused distributor Pax8 sees IT trade association events as ideal grounds to talk with partners and add productive new ones, and Bodell’s hire both strengthens their presence at them and provides the channel with more evidence of their commitment.
Barracuda thinks that adding these other MSP firewall options will let MSPs create strong services packages with high appeal to customers.
LANDESK CEO Steve Daly, who will head the new firm created by merging LANDESK and HEAT, talks about how HEAT will enhance LANDESK’s service management business, especially on the MSP side. He also discusses integration issues, the new company’s strategy, and channel issues — as well as why the new firm will likely have a new name.
TriNimbus, AWS’ only Premier partner in Canada, highlighted several of the many AWS announcements at the AWS re:Invent show as being highly relevant to their customer base – as well as one that will have less direct short term relevance, but longer term will likely have massive significance.
The structure of the new company is in the process of being set, and the acquisition remains on track to close in the first half of 2017.
Workspot, which has been challenging Citrix and VMware with its simple to deploy cloud VDI offering, is announcing a version tightly integrated with Azure that they expect will become the flagship product.
While AWS made many, many announcements at its re:Invent event, the reworking of its family of instances, and availability of several interesting use case capabilities are likely to turn heads.
Intermedia enhances its SecuriSync collaboration and file backup solution with a direct integration between their solution and Microsoft’s Office Online.
More aggressive moves in SMB, and cloud – including a better French-speaking cloud presence – are among the highlights of the Ingram Micro Canada roadmap strategy.
The program, from the HPE 3Par storage group, is targeted at keeping storage that may otherwise go to public cloud in the data centre.
ShoreTel has done all the cloud installs itself since it acquired its cloud business in 2012, but now their Enabled partners who get certified through the new program will be able to do so.
The Cloud28+ community aims to make member cloud apps and services more readily available, while eschewing the transactional focus of cloud marketplaces.
A look at Cisco’s strategy of connecting ISVs and VARs, its uniquely (Dutch-)Canadian connection, and where it goes from here.
NetApp announces a series of new and enhanced data services, as well as a refresh of several solutions aimed at the hybrid cloud.
The Datto SIRIS 3 platform has added a ransomware detection algorithm to take advance of a backup provider’s capability to easily restore a system to its pre-infection status.
