SonicWall

SonicWALL looking for big things from Canadian market

September 1, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Canada has been doing well for SonicWALL, despite a mediocre economy overall. The company and some of its partners discuss what they see as key issues going forward here.

SonicWALL leader Hutcheson lays out strategy going forward

August 31, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new SonicWALL will see big changes and small ones. The big changes are in how the company does business as it untangles from Dell, and it’s a process that they began well before the company was even sold. On the other hand, the new SonicWALL won’t be making significant shifts from its core markets, and partner base.

Independent but accelerated: Gelsinger, Dell discuss post-merger place for VMware

August 30, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Michael Dell and Pat Gelsinger weigh in on the benefits of VMware as part of the post-merger Dell family, stress ecossytem scale and downplay conflicts.

SonicWALL looks to enable partners with enhanced customer services capability

August 30, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

SonicWALL has expanded its Customer Success organization and is approaching the beta stage with a new and enhanced support program for partners, which should be generally available by the end of the year.

SonicWALL putting final touches on brand new post-Dell partner program

August 30, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

SonicWALL is emphasizing that being able to focus specifically on security will enable them to custom design things to better enable partners, and better reward them for their specific value-adds

Downplaying Dell: SonicWALL cuts independent course at PEAK16

August 30, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

SonicWALL’s PEAK16 event in Last Vegas is still, technically, a Dell event. You would hardly know that from the event itself however, as the soon-to-be-independent company flexes its independence some months before the fact.

SonicWALL announces technology preview of new Cloud Global Management System

August 30, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Much of the new technology SonicWALL is previewing on their roadmap at PEAK16 is under media embargo. One element that is not though, is a major one. SonicWALL is announcing a technology preview of its Cloud GMS, which is scheduled for availability in Q4.

With EMC integration pending, Dell channel business still trending

June 30, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Dell’s channel business did very well in the first quarter of their new year. At this stage though, there is still no definite clarity on the channel implications of assets entering Dell – and exiting it, with the SonicWALL divestiture.

New Dell SonicWALL Threat Protection Service to be major channel play

March 1, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new service combines one sandbox Dell has used internally, and being productized for the first time, with two licensed third party sandboxes, on the principle that modern threats that try and evade sandboxes won’t be able to evade three different ones at the same time.