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Channel News Briefs: Week of June 29
Okta Unveils Tiered Channel Partner Program Okta has revamped its Okta Solution Providers (OSP) partner program with a new tiered structure and program enhancements. The OSP program increases support and benefits for qualified partners to help drive business in the enterprise security market with cloud-based identity-management services. The new four-tiered structure allows Okta to scale the program…
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Asigra Delivers Software-Defined Data Protection
Looking to help channel partners reduce cloud backup storage costs and deployment time, Asigra released its Software-Defined Data Protection (SDDP) technology. The new offering uses commoditized infrastructure and vendor-agnostic technologies to provide scalable and lower-cost cloud backup storage for channel partners. The approach is an alternative to expensive monolithic systems and is expected to speed…
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The Channel Rises to the Cloud Opportunity
The channel, much like nature itself, abhors a vacuum. Like it or not, cloud computing is changing IT fundamentals in a way that is forcing solution providers of all sizes to make adjustments. The real issue is whether those adjustments will make solution providers in the age of the cloud stronger or weaker. In theory,…
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Channel News Briefs: Week of June 22
Trend Micro Rolls Out Global Partner Program Trend Micro, a security software provider, has launched its global partner program, combining the best features of its regional and North American partner programs. The rollout of the Trend Micro Partner Program will be completed in the first quarter of 2015. As part of the revamp, the education…
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Red Hat Acquires OpenStack Integration Services Provider
With interest in the open-source OpenStack cloud management framework starting to gain momentum, IT vendors are looking to bolster the amount of IT services skills they have in house. With that goal in mind Red Hat has acquired eNovance, a provider of OpenStack integration services that has created IT automation software that can implement a…
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ESET Goes on Offensive to Gain Share in Antivirus Space
When it comes to antivirus software, competition has never been fiercer. At a time when many are questioning the value of AV software, smaller vendors are becoming more aggressive in their efforts to encroach on the turf of companies such as Symantec and the McAfee unit of the Intel that have dominated the space for…
