Tag Archive for Public Cloud

Avaya seeing rebound in business for Canadian channel

Avaya’s restructuring issues in 2017 had an impact in the midmarket in Canada which is served by the channel. Those problems have disappeared, and Avaya is bullish about its Canadian channel business moving forward.

New Avaya cloud boss outlines strategy to make Avaya a cloud powerhouse

Mercer Rowe, newly recruited from IBM’s cloud business to put Avaya on a cutting-edge path in the cloud, laid out his plans at the Avaya ENGAGE event this week

New Nutanix channel chief says big changes coming to sales motions

Incents for new logos are on the way, but an even bigger change will be Nutanix moving from partners teaming with sales to making partners more autonomous.

Channel needs to make its decisions on cloud in 2018: Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks Canadian country manager Rob Lunney emphasizes that both the opportunities and dangers of the cloud for the channel are greater than ever, and partners need to be proactive in adjusting their business models to the future.

SwiftStack offers both native file and object multi-cloud data management in SwiftStack 6

SwiftStack continues to broaden out from its object storage roots, with the addition of native file capability, which combined with their Cloud Sync feature, lets customers read and write to a single namespace, without a gateway, and to any cloud or on-prem location.

Datrium announces cloud-native Cloud DVX for backup and recovery for AWS

Datrium is offering its backup and DR recovery for the AWS cloud as basically a managed service, where the customer works through the Datrium interface and doesn’t have to learn the intricacies of managing AWS.

ITaaS software maker Nerdio enhances Nerdio for Azure with Cost Estimator

The Cost Estimator, which addresses the problem that Azure itself makes it difficult for MSPs to easily estimate costs because it is consumption-based, joins white-labelling as recent enhancements to the Nerdio offering.

Salesforce, Google extend partnership with multi-faceted collaboration

Salesforce and Google have announced a major extension to their existing partnership, which will see much deeper integrations. It will not, however, place Google in a preferred position above AWS as a public cloud provider. “This is the best of both worlds for our mutual customers,” said Ryan Aytay, EVP Business Development and Strategic Accounts…

Sophos makes cloud marketplaces channel-friendly with changes to cloud billings

The changes, which will see partners who sell through the cloud Exchanges receive back-end rebates and program credit for the first time, are part of a new initiative that establishes a new Sophos Cloud Security Provider cert in the company’s partner program.

Canadian channel, customers, positioned to profit from VMware reorientation around cloud

Both VMworld 2017 events ramped up cloud offerings, infrastructure and designations, as VMware rebrands its image to customers around the cloud.

WekaIO looks to channel to take massively scalable cloud-native file system to market

WekaIO has emerged from stealth with a channel-friendly parallel scale- out file storage solution that uses the compute layer to eliminate external storage devices.

Microsoft CSP Atmosera brings managed Azure services portfolio to general availability

Atmosera believes the combination of Azure’s maturity and problems many customers have had using the cloud themselves will sustain incredible growth rates for Azure-focused MSPs.