In addition to upgrading the CASB solution recently acquired from Imperva, Forcepoint is also introducing new cloud migration tools and extending its LastLine sandbox technology to Web and Email security.
Avast is providing the new tool free to its partners, in the belief that going forward they all need to focus much more on security than many have in the past.
A Web-based version of Automate, which will use the same interface as Manage, and has the same instance as the Automate thick client, is set for release at the ConnectWise IT Nation event in the fall.
The first product of this technology, designed to understand complex workload relationships with machine learning, is the Pure1 Workload Planner.
Kaspersky makes significant changes to the GUI and reporting, as well as other enhancements to its advanced threat protection platform.
Intermedia is formally announcing availability of its new platform, Intermedia Email Protection, which replaces both the end-of-lifed McAfee platform and Intermedia’s legacy Advanced Email Security offering.
LiveDash is looking to build a channel of MSPs to take their tool for making dense and interactive dashboards to market. They are starting with Tigerpaw, as they are a Tigerpaw user, but plan to broaden this out in time.
Mist is using some of its latest round of funding to build out its MSP channel, with a special focus on partners capable to adding their own value on top of Mist’s platform.
HPE’s strategy with its new offerings is to offer strong featured hybrid-flash and software-defined offerings to the entry level at a sub-$10k price where they haven’t played before.
SAP’s channel-focused product for the lower part of the SMB market brings in new functionality from the HANA platform to add the ability to forecast product demand.
The program, which has two tiers, provides infrastructure enhancements related to managed services as well as business process changes desired by MSPs, like the separation of hardware purchases from software and pay-as-you-go billing.
Networking RMM vendor partners with Kentik to bring AuvikFlow NetFlow analysis to help MSPs answer common customer questions their networks.
While Sophos has MSP partners, they have not had a program that provides support for their specific business model and requirements before now. MSP Connect is aligned with the ways MSPs sell, and provides rewards for upselling and cross-selling Sophos’ broad range of security services.
At its customer event, ERP vendor Epicor laid out its plans to become a cloud-first company, to which it asserted a strong commitment – even though the transition is greatly complicated by multiple factors.
Significant enhancements to Sales Cloud and a new field Service component for Service Cloud will be available in new Lightning versions available this spring, in Salesforce’s second quarter.
Unified endpoints, increased automation, and enhancements to the Workspaces introduced last year are the main improvements to the suites.
The Sage 300c and Sage 50c solutions are particularly significant in the Canadian market, and both have received cloud-based mobility upgrades to make them hybrid solutions.
Phoenix, which is based in Newmarket, but which has offices across Canada and in the U.S., adds a key partner to iDashboards, which makes visually appealing business intelligence dashboard software.
A new dashboard provides a macro-level view that did not exist before, and a new Executive Summary report generator provides customers with brandable and customizable snapshots which demonstrate the MSP’s value.
