Tag Archive for SD-WAN

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.

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.

Riverbed touts its cloud-first commitment at channel event

Riverbed delineated the progress it has made in its cloud strategy over the past year – while also giving Cisco a backhanded compliment for providing leads for Riverbed SD-WAN solutions.

Riverbed Reach delivering results as part of Riverbed’s digital marketing strategy

Riverbed Reach, which was announced at last year’s partner event, went live two months ago, and its enablement of partners’ digital value proposition efforts is already bearing fruit.

First packet IQ classification enhances Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect

The improvements to the Silver Peak SD-WAN solution also include centralized orchestration of security policies, including the integration of a stateful firewall, and support for BGP routing protocols.

Citrix outlines channel priorities for 2017 at Summit partner event

Citrix’s new global channel chief also indicates that some simplifications of the program are in the works to make it easier to do business with Citrix – but likely not until 2018.

Silver Peak enters SD-WAN service provider market with Masergy partnership

Silver Peak also announces the hire of a team of executives to build up the service provide business, which will be expanded with other partnerships.

SimpleWan moves beyond wholesale with launch of Master Agent channel

SimpleWan, which makes an offering that combines several different security and network monitoring functions, has found that the increasingly converged market warrants their development of a new channel to address customer purchasing habits.

Avaya, FatPipe launch first integrated SDN and SDN-WAN solution

The joint solution will be available through the channel of both vendors, although in Canada, the FatPipe channel is more limited, so Avaya’s channel will likely carry the ball here.

Citrix rebound mirrors improved performance in Canada

Citrix’s Canadian country manager Michael Murphy talks about the company’s turnaround, what customers in Canada are looking for, and the new opportunities he sees emerging in Canada for the company and its channel partners.

Riverbed responding to fundamental shift in deployment of IT services

At Riverbed’s partner event, their Chief Strategy Officer outlined a complex and model-driven paradigm of how modern IT services are being transformed digitally, and his view of how the company and its partners need to respond. Interestingly, partners seemed to get it.

Riverbed moving into mainstream computing to disrupt the world: CEO Kennelly

Riverbed CEO Jerry Kennelly kicked off Riverbed’s partner event with a forceful keynote in which he stated that Riverbed’s move into SD-WAN will move the company into mainstream networking and create a massive new market opportunity for both Riverbed and its partners, who are their entire route to market.

SD-WAN vendor Viptela expands go-to-market with SevOne partnership and integration

Viptela, whose SD-WAN platform is differentiated by a centrally controlled overlay network that simplifies policy changes, cuts costs, and provides more flexible access to cloud connections, expands its go-to-market by being integrated in the SevOne platform. They also indicated that more such partnerships are coming.