Tag Archive for Networking

Tempered Networks announces identity-based industrial IoT gateway

Tempered Networks’ sweet spot for their identity-based networking products has always been the industrial IoT segment, but the new HIPswitch 250 strengthens their presence there.

Cisco Canada head looking for “next big disruptor” as partner

Rola Dagher, president of Cisco Canada

Cisco Canada president Rola Dagher says the next great disruptor may be the next great partner. And there’s an growing chance that partner may be homegrown.

SonicWall makes biggest set of solution announcements in their history

SonicWall makes five major announcements, including a new firewall OS, a new firewall platform, a new family of Wave 2 access points, a new mobile access OS, and a cloud analytics application.

Mellanox provides HPE’s first Ethernet storage switches in HPE StoreFabric M-Series

The M-Series family OEMed from Mellanox, which provide 100 GbE Ethernet connectivity, but also scale down to an SMB price point, provide HPE with a strong channel offering that has a large price-performance differential over Fibre Channel.

Aryaka enters first UCaaS partnership with 8×8 deal that creates a ‘meet in the channel’ solution

The best-of-breed partnership is aimed at enterprises with a global presence, as well as regional customers with significant challenges.

Netgear looks to the cloud with new Insight solution for small business

Netgear’s new smart cloud offering provides a free app and a free subscription for a basic version. New switches and APs are required though, and a paid version with unlimited device support and additional features will be available early next year.

EXCLUSIVE: Canada rises as Extreme Networks priority as part of new strategic initiative

While Extreme has always had a significant enterprise business to go along with their mid-market presence, their flurry of recent acquisitions, complemented by internal changes to optimize them, has created a much stronger enterprise focus.

Kaseya focuses on easier MSP management with Traverse networking monitoring update

New automation profiles, enhancements to the Panorama network visualization environment, and a new integration with Kaseya Live Connect are the big changes here.

MyDigitalShield looks to educate MSPs about SD-WAN with their OmniWAN offering

UTM cloud provider MyDigitalShield just introduced a complementary SD-WAN-as-a-service offering, and are finding most MSPs know little about SD-WAN despite its potential for their businesses.

Cambium Networks looks to non-traditional channels to take ePMP Bridge-in-a-Box to market

Cambium sells its wireless access infrastructure products exclusively through its large channel, but its newest offering, which is inexpensive and easy to set up, has natural markets which are outside their normal realm, and they want help from partners with access to them.

Global VAD Exclusive Group expands into U.S with Fine Tech purchase

Based in Europe, but operating in over 100 countries worldwide, Exclusive enters the U.S. for the first time. Fine Tech’s B.C.-based subsidiary is not, however, part of this deal.

ConnectWise provides new details about unified product vision

A Web-based version of Automate, which will use the same interface as Manage, and has the same instance as the Automate thick client, is set for release at the ConnectWise IT Nation event in the fall.

Extreme Networks seeks to soothe Avaya customers, partners with consistency pledge

Avaya customers are assured of consistency in service support, Avaya partners will be invited into the Extreme channel program, and further details on platform integration will be disclosed beginning with another webinar after the Avaya deal closes on July 1.