Microsoft

Managed Services

RMM/PSA provider Atera upgrades performance and release time with move to Microsoft Azure Service Fabric

March 15, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on RMM/PSA provider Atera upgrades performance and release time with move to Microsoft Azure Service Fabric
Atera reworked their own platform to a microservices architecture to take advantage of the new platform, which also greatly improves their ability to work with Big Data.

Cloud

Pickit image service moves into channel with Ingram Micro bundle around Office 365 sales

March 12, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pickit image service moves into channel with Ingram Micro bundle around Office 365 sales
Office 365 itself is a notoriously low margin offering, and adding Pickit to it, in what should be a low-touch transaction, can double those margins.

Printing and Imaging

Konica Minolta reboots Workplace Hub as workplace of future focus, with new dealer resources

March 8, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Konica Minolta reboots Workplace Hub as workplace of future focus, with new dealer resources
Konica Minolta’s Workplace Hub has been on the market for over a year, but the company thinks that what it sees as a ‘next-gen’ product is now ready for prime time with their dealer channel, and so they featured it heavily at their Dealer Conference.

Virtualization

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

February 6, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Internet of Things

Cradlepoint, Microsoft partner on Internet of Things networking collaboration with Azure IoT Central

January 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cradlepoint, Microsoft partner on Internet of Things networking collaboration with Azure IoT Central
The Internet of Things is already about half of Cradlepoint’s business, and this integration, which makes it relatively easy for customers to design IoT applications, will boost that – as well as opportunities for channel partners.

Backup

Veeam adds new Cloud Tier, enhances Cloud Mobility and DataLabs in new Availability Suite release

January 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Big Data

WANDisco adds multi-cloud capability to platform with blockchain technology

January 16, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on WANDisco adds multi-cloud capability to platform with blockchain technology
WANDisco has developed and patented DConE, its own blockchain technology that they can use today to keep data consistent across multiple clouds, and which they plan to be able to eventually use to manage distributed blockchain environments as well.

Computers

Lenovo adds more consumer flair, security to ThinkPad X1 Carbon and Yoga commercial devices

January 8, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo adds more consumer flair, security to ThinkPad X1 Carbon and Yoga commercial devices
Lenovo traditionally makes channel-focused product announcements at CES as well as consumer product, and this year they announced significant refreshes of their flagship commercial devices.

Virtualization

NComputing looks to drive North American business in 2019 on both enterprise and SME fronts

January 7, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on NComputing looks to drive North American business in 2019 on both enterprise and SME fronts
At Citrix Summit this week, NComputing will be displaying a new device, the RX-HDX+, to strengthen their enterprise platform, and is looking to make major gains this year in the enterprise, with strategic partner Citrix, as well as in the SME space, with an aggressive push of their Verde offering into the MSP market.

Cloud

Vena Solutions deepens Ad Hoc Analysis in quarterly release with intuitive and insightful analysis theme

December 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Vena Solutions deepens Ad Hoc Analysis in quarterly release with intuitive and insightful analysis theme
Other enhancements reflect top priority being given to mobile optimization and to bringing more of a consumer software experience into FP&A software.