Microsoft

eG Innovations offers native monitoring for Citrix in cloud environment in Enterprise 6.3 release

January 8, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

While eG Innovations has a broad portfolio of offerings, half of their revenues are related to Citrix, so the lion’s share of the enhancements in this release are Citrix-related as well.

Elastifile expands AWS relationship in further development of hybrid cloud strategy

November 30, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Elastifile’s certification as an APN Technology Partner facilitates their offering native AWS deployments, and strengthens their already blossoming business with AWS customers.

ITaaS software maker Nerdio enhances Nerdio for Azure with Cost Estimator

November 20, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The Cost Estimator, which addresses the problem that Azure itself makes it difficult for MSPs to easily estimate costs because it is consumption-based, joins white-labelling as recent enhancements to the Nerdio offering.

Backup

New subscription-based model highlights new version of Veritas Backup Exec

November 14, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Veritas is hoping that many of its customers will move to its new subscription option, while also emphasizing that the new model’s simplicity will make life easier for partners.

HP personal systems president Ron Coughlin

HP says DaaS a channel-first strategy from the get-go

November 13, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

HP’s PC chief tells Varnex attendees the vendor will build its device-as-a-service business through the channel, outlines momentum for the model.

AppRiver makes first PSA integration, with ConnectWise Manage

November 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

AppRiver’s new Nautical platform provides the open APIs necessary for such integrations that their old platform lacked, and ConnectWise is the first provider for which they have built an integration.

Zebra targets new SMB markets with new TC20 Android enterprise smartphone

October 26, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The TC20 comes with feature functionality geared for SMB rather than enterprise, and a pricing model that eliminates the gulf between list and street prices that characterizes the enterprise mobility market.

Dell EMC announces upcoming availability of Azure Stack on 14G servers

October 19, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Dell EMC expects to be the first OEM to bring Azure Stack to market on next-generation servers, and believes this offering will be a particularly strong one for channel partners.

Tech Data looks to drive channel cloud analytics adoption with 30 Day Program

October 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The program, which Tech Data sees as a differentiator for them in the market, is designed to provide a repeatable cloud data migration and integration framework that will provide a proof of value in under 30 days.