Nutanix’s flurry of new product news follows a general theme of moving from HCI where they began to a broader hybrid cloud infrastructure story.
SaaS backup-as-a-service startup Clumio, which sells entirely through channel partners, hired its first Canada-based sales and engineering team this spring, and is seeing good results in the Canadian market.
Volterra has beefed up their VoltMesh service by adding load balancer, API gateway and web application firewall capabilities that will serve every cluster with centralized management and with end-to-end policy control and visibility.
BackupAssist anticipates that most of their SMB customers will continue to recover on-prem, but the cloud recovery option is designed to offer additional protection, at a price far less than DRaaS solutions.
Zoho BackToWork consists of six related modules, with a key one being an Employee Wellness module to define and score individuals, and use those scores to manage access and restrict individuals with failing scores from coming to work.
Whether it’s in spite of the pandemic or because of it remains to be seen, but the distributor’s cloud business continues to see “revenue on a rocket-ship.”
Pax8 is emphasizing that not only will Liongard improve the efficiency of IT documentation software, but their recent expansion of their platform capability complements other adjacent technologies, including providing integrated alerting.
More metrics which help identity and remedy issues in home environments have been added, and enhancements have been made to process optimization, dashboarders and the API builder. New vendor integrations have been added – with more on the way.
Most MSPs have chosen not to become involved in the UCaaS market, something Pax8 is trying to change, in the belief that their ecosystem can provide MSPs with more visibility than they have had from working directly with these vendors.
Sonrai uses workflow and role-based swimlanes to address identity and workload-related issues by automatically routing actions to cloud, security, audit or DevOps teams, or deploy remediation bots to address the issue, with the customer being able to determine how they want things handled.
Naveego supplements its Master Data Management capabilities with broader data integration ones that make Naveego a complete data integration solution and let them get in front of customers they missed in the past.
The news involves reworking Commvault Data Protection and Commvault Backup & Recovery into separate products with a suite option, bringing Hedvig technology into HyperScale, expanding Hedvig support for Kubernetes, further encouraging subscription pricing, and positioning the Metallic SaaS offering to go upmarket and address the enterprise as well as the midmarket.
SolarWinds partners using both N-Central and RMM will be able to deliver monitoring through Microsoft Intune, with true multi-tenanted capabilities and policy consistency not available to MSPs just by using Microsoft 365 alone.
StorMagic’s first SaaS offering turns the technology they recently acquired with KeyNexus into a cloud service, and the company says more SaaS offerings are on the way.
Barracuda is touting the unique nature of its solution stemming from an exclusive partnership with Microsoft, which should last at least six months before Microsoft opens it up to other vendors.
Panzura is announcing the granting of a new patent today which is being leveraged to support Work From Home environments, and to expand Panzura’s customer base downmarket from its core of larger enterprises.
IGEL has over 90 integration partners already, but this has been managed through an ad hoc system where IGEL developers did almost all the integration work. The new program will allow strategic partners to be more involved in this, allowing IGEL to have many more partners, and ensuring the integrations stay current.
The new Aparavi, The Platform, has a more robust set of data intelligence and automation capabilities than their original offering.
Research commissioned by the software vendor show many who moved to working from home in reaction to COVID-19 will stay there, and that that digital transformation has been accelerated in response to the pandemic. What does this mean for solution providers?
Boomi situates the Integration Center of Excellence service they launched earlier this year into a fuller collection of services offerings, which will have a channel component.
