Tag Archive for Linux

New IGEL partnership key for Teradici as they move well beyond PCoIP protocol

Teradici, like IGEL, was originally a hardware company that transitioned into a software company as the market changed, and they are looking from big things from this, and other new partnerships as the company continues its focus on a multi-cloud strategy.

IGEL states intention to be number one in endpoint management space in 24 months

IGEL North America CEO Jed Ayres stated what the company sees as its advantages in the current market, and also announced further signs of their growth, including the hiring of Steve Bell as their first VP of Global OEM Sales.

Lenovo adds open source networking portfolio through new partnership with Cumulus Networks

Lenovo is the last major infrastructure vendor to join the roster of Cumulus partners. They will offer three ThinkSystem RackSwitch models with support for Cumulus Linux out of the gate, with more coming in 2019.

IBM looks to preserve and enhance Red Hat commitment to channel going forward

IBM pledges that all aspects of their and Red Hat’s vendor and channel partnerships will continue, including their channel partnerships, and vendor relationships.

Bomgar to rebrand as BeyondTrust with acquisition of fellow PAM vendor

The acquisition, their third this year, gives Bomgar a stronger presence in the midmarket and lower part of the enterprise, and will also upgrade their Canadian presence significantly.

IGEL sees strong momentum in IDC report showing Linux thin client growth

IGEL will be demonstrating their software-defined endpoint computing solutions around two events this week, at the Open Source Summit in Vancouver, and right next to VMworld in Las Vegas, with the latter being something of a guerilla operation.

DH2i expands Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat relationships and adds new AWS and Docker partnerships

The expansion of the DH2i-Microsoft relationship is around Linux, while the DH2i partnership with VMware now covers VMware’s cloud solutions as well as on-prem.

Scale-out NAS vendor Rozo Systems aims to scale up its channel with first partner program

Rozo Systems, which has been based mainly in the media and entertainment vertical, sells entirely through a select partner channel. They are now looking to augment that channel, and to that end, have introduced their first partner program.

VMware expands NSX platform into Virtual Cloud Network portfolio

The new portfolio is largely an extension of existing NSX capabilities, but there are some new wrinkles, and VMware’s choice to lead the business unit may be particularly well-timed.

MSPs will be able to add more services with new DH2i cross-platform capability in 17.5 software release

The new release of the DH2i DxE software also provides automatic Windows/Linux failover for SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups, automatic Windows/Linux failover cluster on AWS and Azure, and management and orchestration of generic Linux services, including native open source databases, with automatic failover.

Palo Alto Networks brings cloud management option, new UI to Traps endpoint protection

Traps has also been better integrated with the Palo Alto Networks Application Framework, something that is likely to please channel partners. So will the increased channel enablement around this Traps release.

Palo Alto Networks to enhance full range of protection for full range of public clouds

Improvements to Palo Alto Networks’ Next-Generation Security Platform will extend inline, API-based and host based are protections for all three major public clouds.

Zerto launches multi-cloud resilience platform with Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0

ZVR 6.0 extends bi-directional replication that Zerto had introduced in their previous release. Another highlight of 6.0 is a new management portal for Cloud Service Providers.

Panasas continues to move beyond HPC with next generation of scale-out NAS

The big breakthrough for Panasas here is the new ASD-100 disaggregated Director Blade, which allows metadata to be accessed twice as fast as the previous product generation.

ATADATA gets systematic about channel with new ATAconnect partner program

ATADATA has always sold through the channel, but it has mainly been on an ad hoc basis. Now they are formalizing things with their first channel program, and are looking to add partners who are a good fit.