At their Fortinet Accelerate 2018 event in Las Vegas, Fortinet outlined their strategic vision to deal with the challenges of digital transformation, including rudimentary tagging which will – eventually – let customers set policies for new items on the network using business language.
Kaspersky Lab is highlighting the next-gen capabilities in this offering, such as machine learning, a neural network-based anti-phishing engine, and sandboxing.
Avaya also rebooted their chatbot strategy with a significant deepening of their AI focus, and they have some things coming in the near future that will be of interest to partners.
Technology from last year’s Invincea acquisition by Sophos gives Intercept X massively scalable machine learning, which far exceeds the number of data sets machine learning has traditionally processed.
The technology which comes from last year’s LightCyber acquisition, has now been integrated into Palo Alto Networks’ new cloud platform.
From big picture developments like the emergence of fully orchestrated capabilities to manage workloads across public clouds, to more focused things like the growth of Augmented Reality headsets in business, Dell Technologies takes a stab at projecting the near-term adoption of futuristic technologies.
One Identity was already using Balabit’s Privileged Session Management capability in their PAM solution, but the acquisition assists them further on several technology fronts. Balabit’s significant channel is also seen as critical to One Identity’s own channel growth.
AWS made such a flurry of announcements at last week’s re:Invent event that it was sometimes difficult to keep track. Canadian partners and customers at the event did, however, have pretty clear ideas about what they liked.
In addition to the souped-up servers, Dell EMC has also simplified the ordering process by which partners acquire these HCI appliances.
Elastifile’s certification as an APN Technology Partner facilitates their offering native AWS deployments, and strengthens their already blossoming business with AWS customers.
Almost everything announced at AWS re:Invent this year was about machine learning in some way, but several new services — and a deep learning camera were highlighted.
AWS’ Global Partner Summit was chock full of news, including a redo of the partner program, new competencies in machine learning and networking, with more on the way, and major changes to AWS Marketplace.
SAP has reorganized its internal organization this year to allow more aggressive recruitment of new cloud-focused SMB partners, including non-traditional partners. It’s a strategy they plan to accelerate in 2018.
Three new Dell EMC Ready bundles around machine learning and deep learning should both broaden the HPC market, and make it more channel-friendly.
McAfee CEO Chris Young says the lack of IT security talent can be somewhat alleviated if tools just make today’s security professionals more efficient.
DFLabs is looking to build a select channel of resellers, MSSPs and distributors, and is offering margins more common in traditional sales than for a subscription-based offering.
The Sage Business Cloud puts all Sage cloud products on a common platform, with a set of microservices linking them, improving flexibility and making upgrades much easier.
Dell doubles down on the Internet of Things, announcing a new organization, enhanced funding and a road map for future innovation.
Elio is a chatbot that provides first level technical support using IBM Watson technology. NetApp has also enhanced their ActiveIQ cloud-based analytics.
VIPRE Endpoint Security – Cloud Edition, is a built for the cloud solution, not its server product ported into the cloud.
