Adobe’s $1.68 billion acquisition of Magento last summer brought with it a large channel, a huge developer ecosystem and a commitment to open source. All are embraced in the new Adobe Commerce Cloud, which is now in General Availability.
BetterCloud has built ten connectors to major applications which involve complex integrations like real-time activity alerts, and now they are announcing what they are terming their most important release to date, which will allow developers of other apps to build connectors to them.
CrowdStrike has also announced the CrowdStrike Store, which is very similar to the Salesforce AppExchange, and also extended to broaden their routes to market.
Pulse Secure has had free ‘try before you buy’ products before, but this new Community Edition has all the features of the full version, and with no time limit on use. The only limitations are that its scalability is limited to smaller applications, and it lacks the full management and Pulse Secure support.
Other features that expand the release theme of enhancing the platform’s usability for developers include the addition of additional open capabilities, and newly announced free certifications.
Checkmarx makes application security testing software that covers the entire software development lifecycle, and over the last several years has evolved from a direct model from one that aims to get as close as possible to all of their new business coming through the channel.
SAS has reacted to the huge changes in the market around artificial intelligence, by rethinking how they approach the market, and how they sell into it.
The new VPN offering comes shortly after ZeroStack launched services around GPUs, Big Data, and DevOps, in order to provide partners with services offerings with additional revenue potential.
Pivotal executive and proud tech geek Chad Sakac gave the keynote at the Dell Technologies Forum in Toronto on Tuesday, deconstructing the present process of technological change, and counselling customers on a strategy of how to address scary change that transcended the Dell companies, which involves embracing change in their companies and providing ways to encourage it from the bottom up.
NetApp made a flurry of announcements on Wednesday at Insight extending their data fabric, with special relevance to developers and architects, emphasizing their cloud-first focus, and articulating their hybrid and multi-cloud proposition.
Splunk introduced six new offerings at their .conf18 user conference, which are entering beta, and which are designed to open Splunk to large numbers of new customers. That market expansion will create new opportunities for the right partners.
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.
HPE will be driving their Memory-Driven Computing model much more broadly to customers, partners and ISVs, by making a sandbox version available, particularly to expose it to developers, and also by bringing it to market selectively through their Pointnext flexible consumption model services.
The new HPE CEO used his introductory keynote as HPE’s top exec to articulate a vision of the future where HPE will deliver next-generation technologies to customers today – a process which has already begun and where product is available today.
Cisco introduces DevNet Ecosystem Exchange to help expose software built around its platform and APIs as its developer community ranks rise past 500,000.
Nutanix Era leverages Nutanix snapshotting technology to allow easy management of multiple copies of databases, easily provision fully configured database services, and select specific point-in-time copies they want. Developers are a prime target.
Morpheus Data, which sells entirely through channel partners, is particularly looking to expand in the MSP space.
CloudSpin will be integrated as a free component within the Cohesity platform when it becomes available in 90-120 days.
Diamanti quickly adopted an all-channel go-to-market in the face of resellers looking for a turnkey enterprise container management solution, and now has introduced a program to support what will start off as a select value channel.
Gradient provides tools that enables organizations to leverage GPU Compute to make machine learning easier, and the channel is one way that Paperspace is reaching new customers.
