Tag Archive for SaaS

Rubrik to offer lower prices and more customer flexibility with new Rubrik Go subscription licensing

Rubrik Go is being presented as an option for customers, but the company thinks there’s no reason why a net-new customer who hasn’t already invested in perpetual licenses would want to buy any other way.

Micro Focus announces unified partner program with single modern partner portal

Micro Focus brings together their legacy business with the software assets acquired from HPE into a single program designed to manage hundreds of product lines, including managing cross-sell opportunities smoothly.

Ottawa’s TITUS hires new CRO to grow channel as company broadens focus from data classification to data protection

TITUS has been successful selling to very large enterprises, but as their skillset becomes even more relevant to the broader data protection market, they are broadening their go-to-market strategy with an expanded system of both strategic technology and reseller partners, with the goal of a 100 per cent channel business.

Cradlepoint, Microsoft partner on Internet of Things networking collaboration with Azure IoT Central

The Internet of Things is already about half of Cradlepoint’s business, and this integration, which makes it relatively easy for customers to design IoT applications, will boost that – as well as opportunities for channel partners.

Citrix looks to move beyond virtualization in articulating sales strategy at Summit

Citrix is emphasizing to partners this year that their Citrix Workspace for unified mobile data access should be positioned beyond the traditional virtualization market, in order to reach the more than two-thirds of organizations who don’t use virtualization at all.

Alert Logic to reach agent channel community for first time through AVANT partnership

AVANT, which provides offerings to over 500 agents focused on next-generation technologies, opens up an expanded route to market for Alert Logic’s SaaS services.

Vancouver-based engagement platform provider Comm100 continues to build out channel

Comm100, which has been in business since 2009, just formalized its first partner program in September, and has onboarded four new partners, with many more in the pipeline. They are looking to build the channel business to 20 per cent within the next 1-2 years.

Fugue publicly launches Risk Manager automated SaaS offering at AWS

A standalone SaaS product drawn from their Fugue Platform, Risk Manager is a cloud-native monitoring and compliance enforcement solution that establishes good baseline configuration in regulatory environments, monitors drift from them, and has the ability to use automated remediation to correct drift if the customer wants that.

DropBox strengthens relationship with BetterCloud and launches BetterCloud for DropBox offering

BetterCloud has been named a DropBox premier partner, and DropBox will offer the joint offering to their customers from $2 per user per month.

Teridion launches cloud-based WAN service for enterprise, and new channel program to support it

Until now, Teridion has sold an Internet acceleration service to SaaS providers, and sold it mainly direct, but now they are launching a Cloud-based WAN service that will go entirely through partners, and has created a new channel program to support them.

Comodo CyberSecurity unveils upgraded DNS-based SaaS service with Comodo Dome Shield Platinum

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.

Nutanix announces Beam SaaS service integration into Nutanix Enterprise Cloud

The Beam service that Nutanix announced at their spring customer event was designed for the public cloud. The integration into the Nutanix private cloud, available by the end of the calendar year will allow customers to determine whether the private cloud or a specific public cloud makes the most sense for a given workload.

Expanded Okta presence in Canada to have positive impact on Canada channel

Okta has ramped up both its commitment to the Canadian market, and the staff and resources available. The enhanced focus should significantly benefit their Canadian channel business as well.

Commvault launches SaaS portfolio aimed at broad addressable market

Commvault formally launches its as-a-Service portfolio, which has been on the market in some geos for several months. Three services are available now, with more to come.

Plantronics broadens headset use cases with three new series

The newly announced ones are the Voyager 4200 UC, aimed at the ‘corridor warrior,’ and the Savi 8200, which extends the range of the Plantronics line that supports deskphones, mobile phones and PCs. They also recently announced the Elara 60 series, which is a mobile phone station.

Cohesity announces new Microsoft integrations at Ignite event

Cohesity says a new integration with Office 365 Exchange Online, support for the new Azure Data Box, and new failover and failback capabilities for Azure DR should make it easier to sell joint Azure-Cohesity solutions, which have shown strong recent momentum.

Cohesity introduces Helios SaaS-based orchestration and management solution

Helios is the first SaaS-based application on top of the Cohesity platform, something that was always part of the company’s vision, and which provides new data and app orchestration and management capabilities.

Datrium unveils SaaS-based CloudShift orchestration service that complements core Datrium DVX HCI backup and DR platform

The new Datrium CloudShift offering provides a more focused and reliable alternative than VMware SRM for deployments using Datrium’s stack.

Rubrik deploys Radar SaaS service on Polaris platform for easy recovery from ransomware

While anti-ransomware measures to date have largely focused on trying to keep it out, Radar focuses on quickly assessing the damage and then recovering from it as quickly as possible.