Canada leads the countries surveyed in both the average ransom paid to ransomware creators and the amount of money lost to downtime from ransomware, which is hardly ideal, and something that Canadian MSPs need to work smarter to prevent.
Features likely to be of significant interest to the partner community include new Android on-demand capability, as well as deployment capability on AWS as well as Azure.
Addigy has filled a specific role in the market, providing multi-tenanted Mac management, but now, propelled by iPad demand, they have expanded that to all Apple devices with a new unified MacOS management platform.
The program’s highlight is a fast track program to recruit high skill – not necessarily top tier – Microsoft partners by providing them with the Ziften program’s top tier benefits for a year.
Compugen signs Apple to include Macs and iOS devices in device-as-a-service model, eyes vertical bundles using App Store apps.
Absolute Reach gives customers the ability to script broadly to cover endpoints on and off the networks, by integrating their Persistence technology with a new scripting engine.
Lack of support for Apple had been hurting Atera among MSPs who did business in those verticals where Mac use is significant.
The ESET v10 release includes an upgraded and renamed enhanced product, as well as a new premium product that has two additional security features.
The all-flash SIRIS 3 X1is available only with a TB drive, with the plan being to roll over further models if and when they meet customers’ price/performance needs.
The big change is the addition of an integrated remote control solution, which will be free to MSP partners, but the new version also improves the integrated backup and disaster recovery, adds a device manager to Mac support, and upgrades its integrated antivirus technology.
CloudBerry, which works mainly through MSPs and backs customers up to their choice of public cloud, will initially only have Mac and Linux backup for Amazon S3, but that will be expanded in later releases.
IBM and Apple have formed a partnership to make iPhones and iPad more valuable enterprise tools, and build a new, growth-oriented act for both companies.
Microsoft will make Surface Pro 3 available to WPC attendees at a discount, but remains unclear on when (or if) partners will be able to resell the device.
Microsoft is sending strong signals that Windows RT, the version of the operating system for ARM processors, is nearing the end of its unremarkable run.
AVG’s Managed Workplace takes advantage of new API hooks into iOS and Mac OS X to make Apple devices more manageable for MSPs.
Worry Free 7 adds support for new platforms and introduces protection for sensitive information
