monitoring

Security

BlackBerry Cylance adds UEBA monitoring capabilities to platform with CylancePERSONA

March 5, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on BlackBerry Cylance adds UEBA monitoring capabilities to platform with CylancePERSONA
The new capability for intelligent detection of anomalous behavior fills what had been a void in the Cylance endpoint offering – one that they have been working on addressing for an extended time.

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Data Centre

NETSCOUT certifies on new version of Citrix as company reworks its go-to-market and channel strategy

February 19, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on NETSCOUT certifies on new version of Citrix as company reworks its go-to-market and channel strategy
NETSCOUT has received what amounts to a renewal of its Citrix Ready certification, but this is coincidentally timed with changes in how their Arbor Networks security division goes to market, which will have channel implications.

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Unified Communications

VisibilityOne nears entry into videoconferencing monitoring market with public beta launch

February 11, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on VisibilityOne nears entry into videoconferencing monitoring market with public beta launch
VisibilityOne provides a cloud-based videoconferencing service, designed to support multi-vendor environments, and be very simple to install and use. It is slated for general release in early summer, and will be sold through UCC-focused partners.

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Cloud

LogicMonitor introduces two new services, including Kubernetes monitoring

January 15, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on LogicMonitor introduces two new services, including Kubernetes monitoring
As Logic Monitor gears up to launch a channel program and a partner portal, it unveils a new Kubernetes service, and another with a services-based focus that monitors resources together in logical groups.

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Managed Services

RocketCyber unveils free live threat map for Managed Service Providers as security platform launches

January 14, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on RocketCyber unveils free live threat map for Managed Service Providers as security platform launches
RocketCyber is recruiting SMB-focused MSPs with a cybersecurity platform that offers 15 separate services that can be offered to customers, with more being developed. The new threat map provides SOC-like identification of threats that impact each MSP’s specific customers.

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Cloud

Fugue publicly launches Risk Manager automated SaaS offering at AWS

November 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Fugue publicly launches Risk Manager automated SaaS offering at AWS
A standalone SaaS product drawn from their Fugue Platform, Risk Manager is a cloud-native monitoring and compliance enforcement solution that establishes good baseline configuration in regulatory environments, monitors drift from them, and has the ability to use automated remediation to correct drift if the customer wants that.

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Managed Services

Cylance looks to further boost rapidly growing MSP business with ConnectWise integration

November 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

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Managed Services

SolarWinds downplays rocky road to IPO as a minor event in larger growth strategy

October 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SolarWinds downplays rocky road to IPO as a minor event in larger growth strategy
While SolarWinds’ IPO brought them less cash than planned, the company says that this was a minor part of going public again, and that SolarWinds is on track to execute its planned strategy going forward.

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Managed Services

Auvik deepens network traffic visibility capability with Talaia acquisition

October 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Auvik deepens network traffic visibility capability with Talaia acquisition
Auvik upgrades their AuvikFlow network traffic management tool with a technology that they say will further enhance network traffic visibility, and will be easier to develop going forward.

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Cloud

Symantec broadens market for their cloud security services with Cyber Defense Platform enhancements

October 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Symantec broadens market for their cloud security services with Cyber Defense Platform enhancements
The net new additions are a new Managed Cloud Defense monitoring and response service, and a new Managed Cloud Defense service that brings a service Symantec had provided to very large customers to the broader market.

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Big Data

Splunk adds specific KPI predictive analytics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.0

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk adds specific KPI predictive analytics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.0
The general ramp up of the ITSI predictive analytics solution also includes new integrations with VictorOps and Splunk App for Infrastructure.

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Networking

Palo Alto Networks adds massive firewall scalability to Panorama with Interconnect plugin

September 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks adds massive firewall scalability to Panorama with Interconnect plugin
Panorama network security management can now handle tens of thousands of firewalls from a single server, up from 1000 per server before.

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Software

French ITIM vendor Centreon launches North American operation with Toronto office and 100 per cent channel strategy

September 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on French ITIM vendor Centreon launches North American operation with Toronto office and 100 per cent channel strategy
Centreon will be selling completely through channel partners in North America, seeing this as a key way to build up their presence in a crowded ITIM space filled with legacy vendors they believe can be toppled.

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Managed Services

ID Agent seeing strong MSP response to Dark Web monitoring offering

August 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on ID Agent seeing strong MSP response to Dark Web monitoring offering
ID Agent offers a service that terrifies prospects by showing them their corporate data in circulation on the Dark Web, as well as a monitoring service to guard against it. They have Canadian MSP partners, and are in Toronto this week at a Datto show looking for more.

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Managed Services

SOCSoter adds Breach Detection service for SMBs to their Vulnerability Monitoring Service

August 1, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SOCSoter adds Breach Detection service for SMBs to their Vulnerability Monitoring Service
SOCSoter, which has over a hundred channel partners reselling their offering, doesn’t yet have any partners in Canada, but will be at the ASCII show in Toronto later this month looking to change that.

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Cloud

BetterCloud expands Google partnership with real-time activity-based alerts for Google

July 18, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on BetterCloud expands Google partnership with real-time activity-based alerts for Google
The key technology piece here is BetterCloud adding the ability to set policies for alerts without the need for triggers. The new offering is also important, however, as a public reaffirmation of their relationship with Google.

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Managed Services

SolarWinds repositions acquired Trusted Metrics technology as threat monitoring and hunting tool

July 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SolarWinds repositions acquired Trusted Metrics technology as threat monitoring and hunting tool
SolarWinds expands into a new element of security for both on-prem and MSP customers with a light SIEM that also happens to be a very effective threat detection tool.

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Managed Services

Continuum expands RMM differentiation and appeals to broader MSP base with CARVIR acquisition

June 18, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Continuum expands RMM differentiation and appeals to broader MSP base with CARVIR acquisition
Late last year, Continuum decided to supplement the endpoint security embedded in their core suite with a new security unit, and new service offerings, which became available in April. The CARVIR acquisition accelerates that initiative significantly.

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Big Data

Splunk stresses simplicity for smaller logos with no- or low-cost Insights for Infrastructure

May 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk stresses simplicity for smaller logos with no- or low-cost Insights for Infrastructure
Insights for infrastructure is aimed at the sub-$500 million segment, and while not an exclusive channel play, the channel will be an important part of the go-to-market strategy. It will also be available to MSPs, albeit in the single-tenant version that is standard for Splunk.

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