Developers

Scality unveils open source Scality S3 Server

June 14, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

This free open source version of Scality’s S3 API allows developers to develop and test applications locally. The company also hopes that it will eventually attract them to the regular version of their software.

BlackBerry enhances workflow capabilities, integration into business-critical apps

June 8, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

BlackBerry leverages the WatchDox security technology it acquired last year into three related offerings, BlackBerry Email Protector, BlackBerry for Salesforce, and an enhanced Outlook plug-in for version management in collaboration.

Riverbed responding to fundamental shift in deployment of IT services

April 7, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

At Riverbed’s partner event, their Chief Strategy Officer outlined a complex and model-driven paradigm of how modern IT services are being transformed digitally, and his view of how the company and its partners need to respond. Interestingly, partners seemed to get it.

Avaya creates new company, Zang, with cloud communication and app-as-a-service platform

March 10, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Mo Nezarati, the founder and CEO of Richmond Hill ON-based Esna, which Avaya acquired last year, has been named the GM of Zang, which was created as a separate company because its business model is radically different from Avaya’s. There will be channel opportunities though, and Zang is developing a channel program.

Cisco extends developer initiatives with new DevNet Labs

October 6, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Cisco sees its developer community as even more critical as it pushes well beyond its traditional hardware core, and to this end has launched a new collaborative lab environment for their use.

Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager for storage at Red Hat.

Red Hat readies storage for channel

April 13, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Red Hat has built out its storage portfolio over the last year, and now the company’s storage chief says it’s time to take the technology to the channel.

Embarcadero expands channel opportunities with RAD Studio XE7

September 2, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Enterprise Mobility Services, a new back-end turnkey middleware service that hosts loadable custom API and data access modules to provide secure access from mobile and desktop apps to enterprise databases, will provide partners with new revenue from end-users.