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Big Data

Splunk announces new global channel chief and additional partner incentives

February 26, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk announces new global channel chief and additional partner incentives
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.

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Backup

Cohesity enables customers to run third party apps on Cohesity platform with SDK and App Exchange

February 26, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity enables customers to run third party apps on Cohesity platform with SDK and App Exchange
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.

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Security

Kaspersky Lab upgrades web traffic security within Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway

October 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaspersky Lab upgrades web traffic security within Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway
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.

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Big Data

Splunk creates ‘better together’ security story with expanded suite of security offerings

October 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk creates ‘better together’ security story with expanded suite of security offerings
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.

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Big Data

SwiftStack expands market presence with new partnership with Splunk around Splunk SmartStore

October 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SwiftStack expands market presence with new partnership with Splunk around Splunk SmartStore
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.

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Big Data

Splunk creates full Internet of Things offering with Splunk Industrial IoT

October 3, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk creates full Internet of Things offering with Splunk Industrial IoT
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.

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Big Data

Selling Splunk: Keeping Splunk’s sales strategy up to date with Splunk Next’s technology advances

October 3, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Selling Splunk: Keeping Splunk’s sales strategy up to date with Splunk Next’s technology advances
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.

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Artificial Intelligence

Splunk CEO Merritt: Splunk opportunities riding the crest of a technology explosion

October 3, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk CEO Merritt: Splunk opportunities riding the crest of a technology explosion
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.

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Big Data

New OEM and system integrator tracks highlight channel announcements at Spunk .conf

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New OEM and system integrator tracks highlight channel announcements at Spunk .conf
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.

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Storage

Retuned Violin rolls out first of new products aimed at their target extreme performance market

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Retuned Violin rolls out first of new products aimed at their target extreme performance market
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.

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Big Data

Splunk enhances analytics scalability, allows separate scaling of compute and storage and enables LOB users in new platform release

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk enhances analytics scalability, allows separate scaling of compute and storage and enables LOB users in new platform release
Splunk’s announcements at the outset of their Spunk .conf18 event include significant new updates of their Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud platforms

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Big Data

Splunk adds specific KPI predictive analytics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.0

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk adds specific KPI predictive analytics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.0
The general ramp up of the ITSI predictive analytics solution also includes new integrations with VictorOps and Splunk App for Infrastructure.

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Security

European threat intelligence provider EclecticIQ increases North American investment with channel manager appointment

September 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on European threat intelligence provider EclecticIQ increases North American investment with channel manager appointment
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.

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Artificial Intelligence

Data science startup Insight Engines adds log data analysis and hybrid cloud capability to ask better questions of data

July 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Data science startup Insight Engines adds log data analysis and hybrid cloud capability to ask better questions of data
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.

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Big Data

Splunk stresses simplicity for smaller logos with no- or low-cost Insights for Infrastructure

May 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk stresses simplicity for smaller logos with no- or low-cost Insights for Infrastructure
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.

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Big Data

Splunk unveils first packaged offering for Industrial Internet of Things

April 18, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk unveils first packaged offering for Industrial Internet of Things
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.

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Big Data

Splunk announces enhanced partner benefits at Global Partner Summit

February 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk announces enhanced partner benefits at Global Partner Summit
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.

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Data Centre

Pivot3 expands Zerto, VMware partnerships around increased enterprise use cases

February 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 expands Zerto, VMware partnerships around increased enterprise use cases
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.

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Cloud

AWS unveils potentially disruptive Alexa for Business

November 30, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on AWS unveils potentially disruptive Alexa for Business
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.

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Channel Programs

Cloudistics launches channel program with separate VAR, MSP and Technology Partner tracks

November 16, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudistics launches channel program with separate VAR, MSP and Technology Partner tracks
On the heels of signing a significant distribution deal with Ingram Micro, Cloudistics has launched a channel program to support their growing partner base.

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