compliance

Illumio adds Qualys vulnerability data into their platform’s map of application communications

April 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

The Qualys data will strengthen the microsegmentation capabilities of the Illumio platform, which maps out the relationships between applications, and programs security enforcement to defend against threats which breach the perimeter.

Commvault adds Office 365 indexing and discovery to their Azure Stack Integration

April 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

The Commvault enhancement allows the indexing and searching of OneDrive for Business documents saved on Azure Stack hybrid clouds, something that will have strong relevance for compliance use cases.

Security

Absolute introduces GDPR readiness assessments for compliance laggards

April 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

It’s only six weeks until the GDPR is scheduled to become operative, and Absolute has found that so many organizations are still so unprepared that even at this late date, it behooves them to introduce new readiness assessments – which their partners will be able to leverage.

Rubrik introduces complementary Polaris SaaS platform that creates unified system of record

April 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Rubrik Polaris is a separate SaaS platform that provides a new turnkey offering that partners can offer to their existing install base, and which should itself generate new sales of entire Rubrik systems among compliance-minded customers.

Ingram Micro resellers get access to data Erasure-as-a-Service with Blancco agreement

March 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

The Blancco relationship is active now in the U.S., but the Canadian channel will have to wait a little while as final touches are being put on an agreement with Ingram Micro Canada.

HyperGrid pivots to ‘software-defined cloud’ vision as they release new version of HyperCloud platform

February 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

HyperGrid’s new version of HyperCloud adds new capabilities and services around workload placement, improves multi-tenancy further, and now provides support for Kubernetes as well as Docker.

Cyxtera adds offense to defense gameplan with Immunity acquisition

January 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Cyxtera, formed last year by integrating CenturyLink’s 57 data centres with four security companies, has a large minority of its sales go through channel partners, who also stand to benefit from the addition of Immunity’s penetration testing and adversary simulation capabilities.