Microsoft vet Aziz Benmalek takes over as Splunk’s global channel chief, while the company announced new partner incents, improvements to their partner portal, and the implementation of the new partner tracks announced at last fall’s Splunk .conf18.
Cohesity believes that their bringing compute to where the data sits will allow customers to illuminate previously Dark Data and put it to use in generating better business outcomes.
Kaspersky Web Traffic Security is a complete rewrite of the code base of the prior application in the Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway, which adds additional security engines and the latest machine learning and deep learning technologies.
Splunk adds Phantom’s remediation capabilities to complete their end-to-end security story, while announcing new versions of their SIEM and User BBehavior Analytics software.
SwiftStack sees their new partnership with Spunk around the new SmartStore feature within the Splunk Enterprise platform as offering enormous new opportunities for SwiftStack, in making them attractive to customers who would never have considered them before.
Splunk announced its first full Internet of Things offering, with a bundle that combines Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence, introduced earlier this year, with the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, to provide a full IoT solution with both predictive analysis and customization capability.
Splunk introduced six new offerings at their .conf18 user conference, which are entering beta, and which are designed to open Splunk to large numbers of new customers. That market expansion will create new opportunities for the right partners.
Doug Merritt, Splunk’s President and CEO, kicked off the Splunk .conf18 event in Orlando by emphasizing the congruence between the company’s greatest wave of innovation ever, and the time in the market when the pace of change and the ability to tap into the monstrous mess that is contemporary data are at their peak of importance.
The new tracks – the last of those likely for specific types of partners – were announced at this event, and will go live at next year’s Global Partner Summit. Other channel changes include some enhancements to the certification process.
Violin System introduces its first new product since it resurrected from bankruptcy, a NVMe fabric, ultra-low latency offering aimed at the extreme performance market, which is now the focus of Violin’s efforts.
Splunk’s announcements at the outset of their Spunk .conf18 event include significant new updates of their Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud platforms
The general ramp up of the ITSI predictive analytics solution also includes new integrations with VictorOps and Splunk App for Infrastructure.
SIEM industry veteran Michael Seguinot is tasked with building up and enabling a select EclecticIQ channel to target the enterprise and SMB markets in the U.S. and Canada.
Grant Wernick, the CEO and co-founder of Insight Engines, says that their product revolutionizes log store search and helps companies address the scarcity and cost of data scientists by letting English majors do the same job.
Insights for infrastructure is aimed at the sub-$500 million segment, and while not an exclusive channel play, the channel will be an important part of the go-to-market strategy. It will also be available to MSPs, albeit in the single-tenant version that is standard for Splunk.
Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence [IAI] makes monitoring and diagnosis of equipment and operational issues in industrial IoT environments much easier, and while initially a limited group of SI partners will take part, Splunk sees it as having broader channel applicability down the line.
Last year’s refocus on the channel saw Splunk more than double the size of their partner base. This year they are looking to drive further by enhancing the existing partner tracks and formalizing two new ones.
The introduction of their Acuity platform last year has deepened Pivot3 presence in the enterprise, which has in turn led them to strengthen their technology partnerships which address this space.
AWS brings its Alexa technology to the office. The one negative for Canadian users is that out of the gate, it’s only available in the U.S East region.
On the heels of signing a significant distribution deal with Ingram Micro, Cloudistics has launched a channel program to support their growing partner base.
