A standalone SaaS product drawn from their Fugue Platform, Risk Manager is a cloud-native monitoring and compliance enforcement solution that establishes good baseline configuration in regulatory environments, monitors drift from them, and has the ability to use automated remediation to correct drift if the customer wants that.
Liongard continues to extend its value proposition of automating the ingestion of data into documentation and other software platforms for MSPs.
Addigy has filled a specific role in the market, providing multi-tenanted Mac management, but now, propelled by iPad demand, they have expanded that to all Apple devices with a new unified MacOS management platform.
The latest version of the Macola ERP software continues to open up the product, and features changes that they say will end ‘version lock’ including the addition of screen plug-ins and back-end plug ins. There has also been a major extension of open APIs and new capabilities to make it easy to turn off unwanted fields.
The beginning of the new Dell EMC fiscal year in February is always the time for the most significant changes to their partner program, although the company acknowledged the changes this year are more about fine-tuning.
Among the changes coming to IGEL’s own hardware and software roadmaps, one of their thin clients about to be refreshed will see a switch from an Intel to an AMD processor.
HP Canada president Mary Ann Yule on the opportunity HP sees in the Canadian education market, and how solution providers can profit on it.
HeadSetup Pro Manager provides the ability to roll out updates globally, as well as full asset management and configuration management capabilities. It can also scale to manage up to a million devices.
A distinct feature of the new Tintri series is the ability to do non-disruptive drive-by-drive expansion, since most of the series configurations ship with only partly populated boxes.
New automation profiles, enhancements to the Panorama network visualization environment, and a new integration with Kaseya Live Connect are the big changes here.
Cisco and Apple say their joint network/mobile security story is so solid, mutual customers should get insurance discounts.
Like the ProDeploy Enterprise Suite introduced a little over a year ago, the Dell EMC ProDeploy Client Suite offers three levels of service offerings, designed in a way to make it easy for partners to resell or co-deliver.
The changes will save partners hours in deployment time, and by reducing time to value, should also please customers.
Nectar also announced a second new offering, around Microsoft Skype, with a suite of cloud enablement solutions that parallels ones they had previously offered for on-prem deployments.
The new version of AVG’s RMM platform reworks the platform around the MSPs business processes, greatly reducing installation time and building customizable customer service plans right into the RMM solution.
New, preconfigured NetApp bundles for enterprise Splunk deployments will now also be available through Arrow, which is expected to significantly increase the amount of EF-series all-flash arrays sold in particular, as well as E-series arrays.
Toronto-based distributor Gentek has announced three new vendor relationships. They now carry 3CX phone systems, Patton SmartNode gateways, and VTech’s SIP-based commercial phone offerings.
Logitech and Intel are looking to provide a reliable low cost conferencing offering for organizations that use PC-based video conferences.
Auvik Networks’ Alex Hoff on how MSPs can build profitability by better understanding their clients’ networks.
Alex Hoff of Auvik Networks on why MSPs should configure and manage clients’ networking environments based on the tasks and goals they want to accomplish.
