Healthcare

Storage

StorageCraft adds to vertical bundles with StorageCraft for Healthcare

February 20, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft adds to vertical bundles with StorageCraft for Healthcare
Following similar offerings introduced last year for law enforcement and education, Storagecraft adds a new offering for health care, which combines their OneXafe converged data platform with messaging aimed at a specific vertical, and go-to-market reseller partners selected and trained around the solution.

Mobility

BlackBerry fleshes out Spark strategy with new partnerships and projects

October 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on BlackBerry fleshes out Spark strategy with new partnerships and projects
Following BlackBerry’s announcement of its Spark platform for what they call the Enterprise of Things in September, they used their October event in New York City to highlight new strategic relationships and applications that have already developed from Spark.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger at VMworld 2018
Cloud

At VMware’s 20th birthday party, CEO Gelsinger plots company’s next act

August 28, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on At VMware’s 20th birthday party, CEO Gelsinger plots company’s next act
Kicking off VMworld in VMware’s 20th year, Pat Gelsinger outlines the company’s history of building bridges, and identifies the next bridge to cross.

Channel Programs

Zebra unveils first vertical specialization for healthcare technology providers

August 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zebra unveils first vertical specialization for healthcare technology providers
Zebra sells its solutions predominantly to major verticals like retail and manufacturing, where most of their partners play, but for the first time they have announced a specialization for what will be a fairly small minority of partners with a deep focus in an area.

Cloud

NetApp places big bet on hyperconverged infrastructure

June 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp places big bet on hyperconverged infrastructure
At their C3 partner event this week, NetApp exhorted partners to ramp up their efforts to sell NetApp’s new HCI offering based on Solidfire technology, while not letting up on their FlexPod CI activities.

Randy Guard, CMO at SAS
Artificial Intelligence

SAS: AI everywhere demands partners domain expertise

April 16, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on SAS: AI everywhere demands partners domain expertise
As SAS seeks to add AI to all its analytics offerings, it says partners play an important role in connecting those smart systems with domain and business expertise.

Cloud

Dell Technologies expands Virtustream with new Healthcare Cloud

May 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies expands Virtustream with new Healthcare Cloud
The company also announced a new plug-in, which fulfills a critical task in linking the Virtustream cloud to VMware’s vRealize suite.

Cloud

Avaya’s Zang highlights ISV partner Mutare’s healthcare solution

March 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avaya’s Zang highlights ISV partner Mutare’s healthcare solution
Mutare is one of about 90 strategic ISV partners of Zang, but they were also one of the very first.

Managed Services

Secure Now offers MSPs Breach Prevention Platform for white-labelled security

August 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Secure Now offers MSPs Breach Prevention Platform for white-labelled security
NY-based MSP Secure Now developed a HIPAA-focused security offering for the health care industry in 2009, and has now added a new offering aimed at the more general market, targeting SMBs, and sold only through partners. Canadian partners are being eagerly sought.

Security

Data breach costs climb again despite security tech advances: IBM study

June 17, 2016 Mark Cox 1
While advances in technology today provide a stronger opportunity than ever to disrupt attacks, that requires having the right systems in place. Siloed systems, and limited use of the new technologies hurt here. So does the failure of many companies to have a proper incident response plan, which can cut breach costs significantly.