Tag: CHANNEL FUTURES

October 5, 2018

Signs abound that IoT involvement and immersion continue to grow in the channel. Take CompTIA’s recently released 7th State of the Channel Study, for example. This year, CompTIA research found that nearly half of all channel companies (48 percent) are […]

August 28, 2018

Make no mistake about it: An organization’s employees are its biggest data-security liabilities. This can be true even of the most loyal and honest personnel, who may nevertheless fall victim to social engineering attacks, such as phishing, or allow their […]

August 27, 2018

Accounting for nearly half of the private workforce, the small-to-medium-sized enterprise (SME) community is the launch pad for the world’s most transformative ideas. Airbnb, Uber and Amazon all belonged to the SME team at one point, and each year the […]

August 21, 2018

When Azure cloud users have run workloads using SUSE Linux in the past, they used the same SUSE Linux off-the-shelf products that are available to all IT users. Their workloads ran well, but they weren’t running on SUSE versions specifically […]

July 10, 2018

NetApp doesn’t want you to think of it as just an on-premises storage provider. Nor its partners. NetApp executives tell Channel Futures that while the company remains invested in traditional “big iron storage,” the market is mature. Meantime, customers are […]

July 2, 2018

Dataguise, the data privacy protection and compliance vendor, on Monday launched the DgSecure Partner Program, the company’s first structured and formal channel program. With the latest release of DgSecure (version 6.3), the 10-year old company is opening its business to […]

June 28, 2018

Targeting managed service providers (MSPs), cloud service providers, system integrators and solution providers, Accedian, a Montreal, Canada-based, end-to-end network and application performance visibility solution vendor, on Thursday introduced its global Skylight 4X Partner Program. This is the first partner program […]

June 5, 2018

Druva, the cloud data protection and management vendor, on Tuesday announced its first-ever acquisition, that of AWS backup (BU) and disaster recovery (DR)-focused vendor CloudRanger. With the addition of CloudRanger’s AWS products, the Druva Cloud Platform, introduced last August, will […]

May 31, 2018

Green House Data leadership have had a strategic vision for the company since its inception in 2007. The provider of cloud, colocation, hybrid IT and managed services grew from a single location in the middle of the country, expanding to […]

May 29, 2018

Okta and VMware are integrating their respective identity-management and managed digital-workspace technologies to enable context-aware authentication from desktop and mobile devices. The partnership, one of several revealed at Okta’s annual Oktane conference last week in Las Vegas, is a joint-engineering […]

May 29, 2018

Gordon Keenan, technical director of TA Systems, says he gets this question constantly from clients, and no wonder. We live in a world where you can get almost everything for free — Wi-Fi, apps, email. However, when it comes to […]

May 23, 2018

Channel Futures caught up with Zerto executives Mariah West, director, global partner marketing, and Don Wales, vice president, global cloud sales, to talk about the company’s channel strategy and how Zerto helps partners build their business. We also talked to […]

April 25, 2018

Despite a selloff in technology shares, Pivotal Software’s IPO late last week couldn’t have come at a better time for proponents of Cloud Foundry, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology and ecosystem the company seeded by contributing its base IP to the […]