Tag Archive for Platforms

Kemp strengthens application delivery and load balancing interconnect with improved analytics, platform support

Kemp makes enhancements that leverage the load balancer’s position to provide much deeper analytics about applications, including the ability to assess application health and pre-emptively remediate problems.

Dell Boomi seeks to spur more strategic partner solutions with enhanced Technology Partner Program

Boomi has revamped their program for ISVs, integrators and other developers, to encourage them to build more solutions on top of and connecting to Boomi, and to validate it on third party software. They also want partners to work with the whole Boomi stack, not just its original integration functionality.

Splunk enhances analytics scalability, allows separate scaling of compute and storage and enables LOB users in new platform release

Splunk’s announcements at the outset of their Spunk .conf18 event include significant new updates of their Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud platforms

ShoreTel influence strong in new Mitel channel program and shift to two-tier distribution

Specific details on the new Mitel channel program elements, and the distributors involved, will not be announced until April, but the strategic outline of both elements of the go-to-market strategy was made clear.

Ingram Micro reworks cloud business unit to make strategy more systematic

Ingram Micro was the first broadline distributor to make a big push into the cloud. Now, as the cloud opportunity expands, it is fine tuning how it makes that push.

Cyberbit launches channel program around its mature cybersecurity platforms

Cyberbit, a subsidiary of Israeli defense electronics giant Elbit Systems, sells entirely through channel partners, and has announced a North American channel program for them.

Pax8 lays out strategy going forward

The born-in-the-cloud distributor’s new intiatives include a new endpoint solution with Symantec, as that vendor enhances its cloud portfolio. The company also has a unique dual platform strategy to help redefine cloud distribution.

Epicor CEO pledges major company changes to serve customers

Joe Cowan told Epicor’s Customer Conference in Las Vegas that the company is committed to major changes to its systems and products, to take customers into the cloud and become easier to do business with.

SYNNEX enhances its eCommerce platform for North America

Consolidating information from multiple pages and microsites onto a single page for ease of use, and a major improvement to the search engine highlight the changes to the site, which will be available to most partners later this year.

Nutanix announces all-flash appliance, new synchronous replication capability

The company is announcing its first all-flash offering, the NX-9000 appliance. It is also announcing Metro Availability, a new capability which allows a customer to deliver synchronous data replication to two data centres.