The importance of recently-acquired Carbon Black to this vision was stressed, with Dell also announcing that Carbon Black is now the preferred endpoint security solution for Dell.
The three-pronged announcement includes a new version of the AOS-CX operating system, extends it from the data centre to the campus with two new models, and provides an update of Aruba’s NetEdit switch configuration software.
Extreme rolls out a rebranded and enhanced version of the Hive Manager solution they recently acquired with Aerohive, with the addition of a new Co-Pilot automation capability.
The improvements to Stateless’ Luxon platform are intended to expand its use cases and its appeal as an open interconnect platform which easily allows things to be built on top.
The companies announce the availability – with some minor enhancements – of the VMWare VeloCloud-based solution announced at Dell Technologies World, as well as a new SmartFabric Director to simplify joint physical-virtual management.
Big Cloud Fabric now manages VPCs in the AWS cloud, while Global VPCs like Google Cloud provides will now be available across the hybrid cloud for both AWS and Azure. Multi-Cloud Director is now also available as a cloud-based service.
Channel veteran Frank Raimondi is now part of the Chargifi team, and talked with ChannelBuzz about the MSP market and its role in Chargifi’s expansion plans, as well as confirming the timeframe for Canadian distribution through Ingram Micro.
Ecessa has been in the SD-WAN space for years, but only moved into the channel fairly recently, and first concentrated on telecom resellers. Now, assisted by new channel leader Leonard DiMiceli, they are focusing on adding MSP partners.
Cisco Canada channel chief Mark Collins discusses the current status of the move towards smart cities, and what we can expect to see in the near future.
Extreme sees this new extension of its strategy to become an enterprise networking powerhouse as creating strong synergies between their existing channel, and the 5000 partners on the Aerohive side.
The new joint solution, provides an industrial monitoring solution for proactive maintenance that is much more scalable than what ABB had been using before, and ABB sees its ability to be sold on a consumption model as opening up new use cases.