NetApp will be making major changes to their channel program at the end of April 2022, and has announced what those changes will be, and the paths partners need to prepare to be ready for the new program.
Blancco is primarily looking to use the new integration to deepen their relationship with existing mutual customers, but also hopes to add a few new Fortune 1000 companies who are on the ServiceNow platform.
The local cache, which was always planned as a local complement for D2C, will remove any need for local appliances and truck rolls, by placing a local copy resembling a browser cache on any commodity storage.
Dell Technologies is making multiple announcements at this year’s virtualized Dell Technologies World, but the most important by far, because of the way in which it transforms the company, is availability of the first APEX as-a-service offerings.
The new offering is the first of what will be a family of Dell Technologies manufacturing edge solutions, while the upgraded one is a new version of the Dell EMC Streaming Data Platform.
HYCU’s new Kubernetes protection service is an elastically scalable backup service, which doesn’t protect containers separately but as a fully integrated component of an integrated data protection process.
In addition to providing immutability against ransomware attacks, the new version of Kasten K10 adds ease of use enhancements and new vendor integrations.
BitTitan also plans to bring Perspectium’s data synchronization platform into the Microsoft ecosystem, where it has not played until now, and introduce it to BitTitan’s channel partners.
Ian Purdell-Lewis of Avaya continues his series with advice for solution providers on how to guide customers through moving to a subscription model for cloud services in this guest blog.
The Amplitude Partner Ecosystem, which is much more systematic than anything Amplitude has had before, includes both technology and Go-to-Market partners, and is designed to amplify the growth potential of the other initiatives.
The Google announcement was for the private preview availability of Redis Enterprise on Anthos with GKE, and the availability of Redis Enterprise on the GKE Marketplace, while the AWS announcement makes all of the Redis Enterprise Cloud expanded offerings available in the AWS Marketplace.
Some of the new enhancements are part of the forthcoming Zerto 9.0 release, which Zerto also previewed to customers at the virtual event.
Cloudflare has a Canadian President/COO and has had a Canadian customer and partner presence for years, but they are now hiring people on the ground and opening a Canadian office for the first time.
Ataccama launched its Ataccama ONE Gen2 Platform into beta in November, and used its flagship customer event to highlight both its general availability and its ability to address customer concerns enumerated in a new study that was also featured at the event.
Almost everything in HPE’s portfolio is already available as a service, and while Canadian customers have been somewhat slow to warm to the new model, Hilton says that’s changing in a big way.
The cloud distributor hires a bilingual Canadian head of sales and a Canadian Microsoft Program Manager, reflecting the key influence of Microsoft in convincing Pax8 to finally put boots on the ground in Canada.
In addition to the new offering, which will let Dell partners who were already working with Druva apply that business to the Dell Partner Program, Dell is also announcing the addition of Google Cloud to the Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager cloud ecosystem, and the ability to lower snapshot retention costs with joint availability of PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager and PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition.
Ian Purdell-Lewis of Avaya Canada offers some advice on how to help customers think through the process of getting the right subscription for their cloud services.
GMS provides outsourced white-labeled support like help desk and NOC services to MSPs, and the depth and breadth of their services will be a big advance in what Sherweb is able to offer their MSP partners.
Cisco takes a big step in its ongoing mission to reinvent its offerings as subscription services with the impending launch of Cisco Plus bundles including Hybrid Cloud and Network-as-a-Serice.
