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.
AutoElevate brings a solution more commonly associated with the high end of the market to the MSP space, with full multi-tenanted and mobile capabilities.
ConnectWise stressed two main themes at their IT Nation Event in Orlando – the need to further empower MSPs, and the need for MSPs to develop their security capabilities. Those two themes were closely intertwined, as ConnectWise is rolling out multiple tools and programs to enhance both, with more to come.
SherWeb’s first RMM integration, with ConnectWise, is scheduled to go live in Q1 of next year, a major step for the Cloud Services Provider, who previously had no direct integration with ConnectWise.
Power management vendor Eaton already has MSP partners, but until now, they had no integrations with RMM vendors. They have now finalized their first, with ConnectWise, and they are looking for more.
CloudJumper announces that their Cloud Workspace Management Suite in now available on the Azure Marketplace. They also spotlighted their integration with Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop at the IT Nation Connect event, and created a new position of VP Strategic Alliances, where the management of the Microsoft relationship is a critical element.
At IT Nation Connect, ConnectWise Chief Product Officer Craig Fulton discussed metrics MSPs need to better understand and use, as well as changes that ConnectWise will be making in its platform to help them do that.
EventTracker has moved in a period of less than two years from mainly direct to channel-focused, and has been building out their MSP channel. Their new integration with ConnectWise Manage is their first of its kind, although other PSA and RMM integrations are likely to follow.
Cloud distributor Pax8 continues to expand and grow its vendor roster, adding Acronis and Dropsuite in the business continuity space, and IRONSCALES, Passportal and Proofpoint for different things within security.
The moves include the reabsorption of the Relyenz division within CharTec, and the repurchase of the major investment ConnectWise had in CharTec, although the latter does not impact CharTec’s strong partnership with ConnectWise.
ConnectBooster offers MSPs the functionality of their platform, plus the services of their affiliated companies, and has a referral component which will pay the MSP a recurring revenue if ConnectBooster sells the service to a customer
ITBoost offers full functionality in documentation, password management, BI and customer feedback through an integrated pane of glass, and is at the ConnectWise IT Nation Connect 2018 event this week looking to differentiate themselves and impress MSPs.
Comodo has offered a free version, Comodo Dome Shield, which will continue as Comodo Dome Shield Gold, but they expect that most of their customers will upgrade to the paid Platinum version because it has more functionality and no monthly limits on DNS requests.
The new VPN offering comes shortly after ZeroStack launched services around GPUs, Big Data, and DevOps, in order to provide partners with services offerings with additional revenue potential.
Blancco is looking Ingram Micro to help them put together a select channel of MSPs and VARs to offer their erasure-as-a-service offering. Softchoice has been announced as a Canadian channel partner.
Pax8 bolsters MSP choices in email archiving and Office 365 backup with Dropsuite, while emphasizing that they have some technology and pricing features that partners should find attractive.
Kaspersky Web Traffic Security is a complete rewrite of the code base of the prior application in the Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway, which adds additional security engines and the latest machine learning and deep learning technologies.
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.
In addition to moving VARs and MSP sales into the same pool, the new StorageCraft partner program now brings all the company’s products into a single program, including brand new and acquired ones.
WaaS provider CloudJumper makes single-tenanted deployments feasible for MSPs and customers in the 10-15 seat range – down from about 100 seats before.
