Kaseya Extends Data Protection Services Reach
Kaseya today extended the data protection capabilities it makes available to managed service providers (MSPs) to include both disaster recovery (DR) as well as traditional backup and recovery. Kaseya Unified Backup (KUB) now includes a service based on DR software developed by Unitrends. The goal is to give MSPs the ...
IT Glue Courts MSPs with MyGlue Password Management Platform
Managing credentials has become a major headache for just about every line of business inside an organization. The primary issue is there are simply too many passwords to remember. In theory, organizations should be implementing password managers to simplify that process. But few ever progress that far, which in turn ...
Pivot3 Extends Scope of HCI Technology Alliances
A fundamental change to the way IT solutions are acquired is driving some major changes across the channel. Not too long ago most customers preferred to buy and license hardware and software separately. But as more IT solutions become acquired using pay-as-you-go licensing models many organizations now prefer to buy ...
WorkSpan Launches Cloud Platform to Manage Alliances
One of the most vexing things channel partners and channel executives regularly deal with is the barrage of technology alliances that get made by IT vendors. Nine times out of ten there’s no actual mechanism in place that would allow the vendors that have formed an alliance to “meet” in ...
Splunk Dives Deeper into the Channel
Splunk today announced several additions to its channel program at the company Global Partner Summit intended to provide access to a broader mix of rebates and SPIFFS as well as rewards for referrals and new incentives for distributors. In addition, Splunk also plans to create channel programs later this year ...
Samsung Galaxy S9 Series Smartphones Have Channel Appeal
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today at the Mobile World Congress 2018 conference unveiled a pair of smartphones that among multiple new capabilities include a slow-motion video capability aimed at business applications such as recording a high-speed manufacturing process or enabling first responders to capture video even, in low light, that ...
Cytracom Applies Predictive Analytics to VoIP Services
The key to remaining profitable as a managed service provider (MSP) is to detect and remediate issues long before a customer ever knows they exist. To help MSP achieve that goal within the context of a voice-over-IP (VoIP) service Cytracom this week unveiled Ivie, which makes extensive use of predictive ...
Cisco Sees Increased Reliance on Cybersecurity Outsourcing
A new report on the state of cybersecurity published today by Cisco finds that the increased sophistication of the attacks being launched by cybercriminals is pushing more organizations to rely on outsourcing to combat these threats. Usage of monitoring provided as service (49%) is up five percent year over year, ...
SUSE Starts to Gather Channel Momentum
SUSE slowly but surely is climbing back into the channel game. Once known primarily as a provider of a distribution of Linux, the company now operates as a unit of Micro Focus. In addition to curating an operating system along with a distribution of the OpenStack cloud platform, it now ...
