Artificial Intelligence
Adobe enhances its Sensei AI with new services
Smart Layouts, which was shown at Summit last year as a Summit Sneak, was also announced to be in General Availabiilty.
machine learning
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Canada highlights Canadian AI initiatives at Future Now 2019 event
Microsoft holds this annual event both to demonstrate Microsoft’s position on the cutting edge of new technology, and to inspire customers and prospects in attendance with examples of how Canadians have had strong results putting these concepts into practice.
Security
Cryptomining protection, more machine learning and new Web-based console highlight updated Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business
Cryptomining faded from the headlines in late 2018 with falling bitcoin prices, but Kaspersky still considers it a major nuisance, which is employed by rogue employees as well as cybercriminals.
Managed Services
Infovista improves Ipanema SD-WAN application intelligence as they drive solution deeper into MSP channel
Ipanema, which Infovista acquired in 2015, is becoming an increasingly important part of their business, and the MSP channel is becoming a more important part of that, as Ipanema broadens out its channel strategy beyond large telco partners.
Networking
New DNS security service a major highlight of PAN-OS 9.0 release
Another key software addition is a new Policy Optimizer, that uses network intelligence to find and remove legacy firewall rules that create security issues.
Partnerships
Ottawa-based UEBA provider Interset sees enormous opportunity in new CrowdStrike partnership
Interset’s technology managed to interest the venture capital fund of the U.S. Intel community, but until now their exposure to solution provider channel customers has been relatively limited. They expect the CrowdStrike partnership will change that.
Partnerships
Dell expands endpoint security portfolio through collaboration with CrowdStrike and Secureworks
Dell has had an endpoint security partnership with Cylance, and that remains in effect, but this new one around Dell SafeGuard and Response solutions is considerably deeper and becomes the jewel in Dell’s endpoint security crown.
Data Centre
Canadian data in Dell Digital Transformation Index improves in context of just-released global numbers
Canadian organizations are progressing fairly slowly at the higher levels of digital adaptation, but there has been significant movement from the less advanced ranks, and compared to global numbers being released today, the Canadian numbers released last fall look better in comparison.
Backup
Cohesity announces multi-stage anti-ransomware capability
The anti-ransomware components, which are built into the core Cohesity backup platform and not a separate line item, gives their partners the ability to come to customers’ rescue and provide peace of mind against a well-publicized problem.
Security
Recorded Future introduces new module to provide dynamic analysis of risks incurred from third-party relationships
Third-Party Risk integrates these external risks with cyberrisks assumed internally, allowing an organization to obtain an integrated analysis of their total risk profile, and providing Recorded Future’s channel partners with a differentiated offering.
Backup
Veeam adds new Cloud Tier, enhances Cloud Mobility and DataLabs in new Availability Suite release
In addition to the flood of news around Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4, Veeam also announced Veeam Availability for AWS, Veeam Availability Console V3, and a new licensing option with one license for any workload.
Networking
Security in Canada going through interesting times: Palo Alto Networks Canada country manager Rob Lunney
Palo Alto Networks’ Canadian country manager talks about the challenges his company faces, how it has adapted its strategies to meet them, and what the channel needs to do to keep pace.
Big Data
Accelerite introduces no-code, serverless platform for end-to-end AWS analytics in ShareInsights 3.0 software
ShareInsights 3.0 is the first cloud-native version of the platform, which opens up AWS analytics to more users by abstracting the entire AWS analytics stack.
Cloud
Nutanix reintroduces Xi as suite of five cloud services, including Xi IoT
The Xi IoT offering is the first fruits of Project Sherlock, the Internet of Things initiative that Nutanix unveiled this spring at their .NEXT event.
Uncategorized
Dell Technologies lays out AI strategy to unlock the power of data
Dell CEO Michael Dell and Dell EMC Global CTO John Roese laid out the Dell view of AI and the IoT, and the company’s strategy to lead the market in addressing them.
Mobility
Blackberry deepens dive into IoT with $1.4 billion Cylance acquisition
BlackBerry and Cylance also said that they expect synergies to their channel business on both sides, as well as to the business overall.
Artificial Intelligence
Canada still not tapping into full potential of artificial intelligence
SAS Canada’s AI Executive event on Wednesday focused on how Canadian companies can best use AI to drive business outcomes. However, SAS also emphasized data that indicate that to date, that hasn’t been happening in Canada, which lags globally when it comes to adoption in production environments.
Artificial Intelligence
SAS Canada delivers Artificial Intelligence for the real world session for customers at Toronto event
SAS provided their business audience with industry and academic perspectives on deriving value from AI, and then related it specifically to best practices that organizations can use to make it part of their business strategy.
Artificial Intelligence
Veritas brings new predictive analytics to appliances
Veritas Predictive Insights will be a core, free feature of their appliances, beginning initially with NetBackup Appliances and extending to Access and Flex appliances next year.
Managed Services
Cylance looks to further boost rapidly growing MSP business with ConnectWise integration
Cylance has made their first partnership with an RMM vendor, integrating their two flagship products into ConnectWise Automate. They have plans to expand this ecosystem further.