Masergy Strengthens Channel Program for SD-WAN Service
Masergy, a provider of a managed software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service, this week launched a Masergy Zenith Partner Program on the heels of appointing Jim Glackin to be its senior vice president of global channels. The Masergy Zenith Partner Program provides access to market development funds and marketing templates ...
Harness to Open CD University for Partners
Harness, a provider of a continuous delivery (CD) platform accessed as a cloud service, this week announced it will expand its channel program to include a sales lead program as well as extending invitations to partners to attend Harness University. As best DevOps practices become more widely adopted by enterprise ...
VMware Adds Tanzu Competency for Kubernetes
VMware this week added a VMware Cloud Native Master Services Competency (MSC) as part of an effort to strengthen the base of partners that have VMware Tanzu expertise specific to Kubernetes. The VMware Tanzu cloud platform can manage a wide range of cloud platforms that can run on-premises or in ...
HPE Looks to Simplify Channel Program
HP, Inc. this week revealed it plans to streamline its channel around two Synergy and Power tracks that in addition to being consistently implemented around the globe will also help partners better engage customers online. Scheduled to be implemented for commercial partners on November 1st, the rechristened channel program will ...
Citrix Extends Alliance with Microsoft
Citrix Systems and Microsoft this week extended their long-standing alliance to reward partners that combine technologies from both vendors to drive the adoption of digital workspaces. Under the terms of the deal, Microsoft will make Citrix Workspace as a preferred digital workspace solution, while Citrix will select Microsoft Azure as ...
Canonical Adds Channel Program for GSIs
Canonical, a provider of a widely employed Ubuntu distribution of Linux and other open source platforms, this week announced it has created a formal channel program for global systems integrators (GSIs). The company has been engaging with GSIs on a tactical basis for years. In the wake of the acquisition ...
Brightcove Extends Channel Reach of Video Platform
Brightcove, a provider of an online video platform, this week expanded its channel program as part of an effort to attract partners that employ a wider range of business models. In addition to referral partners, Brightcove is now recruiting systems integrators and resellers as well as managed service providers (MSPs) ...
VMware Woos MSPs on Behalf of AWS
VMware this week announced that the VMware Cloud Director service that managed service providers (MSPs) rely on to manage instances of VMware is now available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. Available only to VMware partners, VMware Cloud Director enables MSPs to set up self-service virtual data centers ...
Commvault Simplifies Channel Program
Commvault this week announced it has simplified its channel program as part of an effort to streamline processes in the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of that effort the provider of data protection platforms is moving to accelerate the sales cycle and ...
