News

July 09, 2018 09 Jul'18
Google Cloud ecosystem critical to enterprise push

The Google Cloud ecosystem continues to expand, as Google improves its relationships with third-party vendors and tries to translate its technology to traditional IT shops.
July 06, 2018 06 Jul'18
Unitrends revamps enterprise backup solutions program in wake of merger

Unitrends revised its channel partner program, adding new tiers and benefits for its legacy partners, as well as incentives for Kaseya MSP partners to join; other news from the week.
July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18
Dell's dance to public markets takes VMware side door

In a complex stock deal Dell once again becomes a public company to flex its muscles against major legacy IT rivals, but sidesteps questions about VMware's autonomy.
July 02, 2018 02 Jul'18
Linux targeted by illicit cryptocurrency miners

Cryptojacking is increasingly being used by cyber criminals to raise funds, Watchguard report reveals.
June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18
Hyper-converged infrastructure solutions: Scale, Nutanix tap channel

Channel partnership strategy: Scale Computing and Nutanix have launched partner programs in the hyper-converged solutions market; other news from the week.
June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18
Five9 CEO Trollope left Cisco for 'more nimble' company

In May, UC and collaboration exec Rowan Trollope left Cisco for a nimbler Five9. As CEO of the contact center vendor, he promises to be more product-focused than his predecessor.
June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18
Channel can take the mobile high ground with UEM

Margins in MDM might have been squeezed, but according to MobileIron there is plenty of life in unified endpoint management.
June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18
DattoCon 2018 attendees get a glimpse of the future

At DattoCon 2018, company executive Ian McChord shared his views on emerging trends and opportunities for managed service providers.
June 27, 2018 27 Jun'18
Dense Qumulo K-Series launches to archive file storage

Qumulo introduces the K-144T archive appliance to complement its scale-out NAS systems. The K-Series starts with six nodes, and customers can scale storage in 144 TB increments.
June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18
VM-aware storage pioneer Tintri on verge of bankruptcy

Recent first-quarter results by the VM-aware storage pioneer throw light on a fragile financial situation that needs new funds or a buyer to avoid bankruptcy by the end of June.
June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18
Aruba partners urged to target traditional branch office routers

The new Aruba SD-branch offering, unveiled at the HPE Discover conference, gives channel partners a way into the SD-WAN space, Aruba said; other news from the week.
June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18
DattoCon 2018: New storage features, development schedule

Datto partner companies got a slew of new data protection features, a cloud storage product beta and updates on business management software at the recent DattoCon event.
June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18
Cisco HyperFlex brings NVMe to hyper-converged storage

Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 software adds native DR and cloud-based Intersight Storage Analytics. The all-flash hyper-converged systems integrate Nvidia GPUs and Intel Optane NVMe SSDs.
June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18
HPE partners urged to tackle the 'Super Six' market opportunities

At the HPE Global Partner Summit 2018, the company described six short- and long-term market opportunities it plans to capitalize on with it partners.
June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18
DattoCon 2018: Focus on MSPs poised for SMB growth

The MSP industry has good prospects for growth in the SMB space as company valuations increase, but the firms with the greatest focus are more likely to reap the rewards.