Doug Merritt, Splunk’s President and CEO, kicked off the Splunk .conf18 event in Orlando by emphasizing the congruence between the company’s greatest wave of innovation ever, and the time in the market when the pace of change and the ability to tap into the monstrous mess that is contemporary data are at their peak of importance.
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.
The new features include the addition of one-to-many replication capability to the Zenko data workflow engine, something that is valuable to the majority of cloud users who have more than one cloud.
Microsoft previewed two major components of the October 2018 release for Dynamics 365, with three new AI applications and two mixed reality business applications, with a strong emphasis on their being easier to deploy and use than their competition.
Texas-based Tango Networks launched their cloud offering in Europe first, but now brings it to the North American market, and are expanding their channel of enterprise-focused partners to help sell it.
Meta Networks, whose network-as-a-service offering appeals to a variety of solution providers across the security, networking and managed services spaces, wants to start with a limited number of initial partners, and make them successful before expanding the program.
Ken Patterson, who has over 20 years experience working for MSPs, will run the new Boot Camp series of education-focused road shows, and provide a more technically-focused Pax8 resource available at the shows they attend.
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger declares security broken, and says the company’s new approach is to reduce the threat surface by intelligently locking down the behaviour of the virtual and cloud infrastructure it manages.LAS VEGAS — Pat Gelsinger does not have a lot nice to say about the state of security. In his VMworld 2018 keynote…
As it launches its VMware on AWS infrastructure offering Australia, VMware sets a target Canadian launch for the first quarter of 2019, and the Canadian team says the timing is ideal for market maturity and demand.
Kicking off VMworld in VMware’s 20th year, Pat Gelsinger outlines the company’s history of building bridges, and identifies the next bridge to cross.
The new Datrium CloudShift offering provides a more focused and reliable alternative than VMware SRM for deployments using Datrium’s stack.
Cohesity says that the achievement of the AWS Storage Competency validation will assist them significantly on the technology front, as well as in sales and in marketing.
SAP launched this new component in their cloud strategy this March, and have already had 450 partner solutions qualified – with between 700 and 800 more in the pipeline.
The Intermedia messaging to the channel at this year’s CompTIA ChannelCon event emphasized the UCaaS opportunity around their Unite offering which came out in February.
ESET has been in the MSP space for a while, but is now making a push to increase their presence there. They also indicated that they will shortly be releasing their first offering specifically built for the cloud.
Other enhancements include a new unified dashboard and unified search feature for all 40 applications in Zoho One, as well as the 40th app – Backstage – an event management solution that is also sold separately.
Hornetsecurity is targeting the SMB space in North America, emphasizing their ability to build and maintain strong relationships with these smaller customers. They have signed Contronex to handle their distribution in both the U.S. and Canada.
Open source email and collaboration platform Zimbra has revitalized itself in recent years, to move forward despite threatening clouds in the environment.
The San-Francisco-based company with a strong Canadian connection has been moving beyond their direct model as they expand, introducing a channel program earlier this year, and now making themselves available for sale to AWS customers on that marketplace.
Microsoft’s channel chief discusses the software giant’s plans to expand a program where Microsoft sells partners’ products and services, including hooking partners up to its AppSource store.
