Left for dead in many quarters, FalconStor re-emerges with a new platform aimed at flash and hybrid storage vendors, MSPs, and a VAR channel which it acknowledges needs to be won over again.
Quartet Services is looking to advance its own growing Office 365 practice by purchasing fellow Toronto-based MSP and O365 specialist En Vogue Computers.
The distributor says its Avnet Cloud Toolset will help solution providers offer their customers an enterprise-wide view of their cloud investments.
Cirius is gearing up for a push on multiple fronts, including a new emphasis on their own branded products, entering a new global broadline distribution deal, increasing their Canadian business, and becoming the first secure messaging solution to receive Parallels APS 2 certification for the Parallels Automation environment.
With its own control platform built out, and new hooks into key RMM vendors, Storagecraft is focused on management as it looks to larger customers.
Zetta.net, which has a strong MSP business, can now make full server image backups directly to the cloud, without requiring an appliance or a staging drive.
Carbonite Appliance HT10 first purpose-built for channel product to launch in vendor’s shift from direct to indirect sales.
Backup software vendor Asigra builds an open-source stack that it says can cut MSP’s storage costs on backup-as-a-service in half
ConnectWise is looking to capitalize on the acquisition of rival professional services automation vendor Autotask by inviting users to defect.
Autotask acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners for an undisclosed price, making it the latest shakeup in the managed services segment.
IBM looks to further define its relationship with managed service providers, and is developing new contracts and tools to bring MSPs into its partner mix.
Sanovi, an Indian-based maker of disaster recovery software, launches a partner program to deepen its penetration of the North American market.
In placing all of its managed services function in a single dashboard, Kaseya says it’s ending the toggling between screens.
Thin-client vendor NComputing sees opportunity for service providers to add desktop-as-a-service capabilities
Online storage vendor Dropbox brings its partner program to Canada and other markets, expanding beyond its U.S.-only debut last year.
Xerox launches its Xerox PrintAssist Services, a plugin to the LabTech Software remote monitoring and management platform.
Data protection vendor Paragon Software says new program will make it an easier, more profitable partner to work with.
f there’s one truism in managed services, it’s that pricing is inconsistent. What’s needed is a reality check on what the market will bear.
Many managed service providers are clinging to the notion that they are distinctly different from peers selling various forms of cloud services.
HP introduces its first cloud-managed WiFi offering, pitching SMB on ease of management and simplicity.
