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The cloud-based system interfaces with 8 PSA and ticketing platforms now and will soon come with integrated vulnerability scanning functionality as well.

Seeking to make listing solutions on its app marketplace easier and more appealing, especially for small developers, the cloud CRM vendor is introducing an easier, automated onboarding process and lowering the share of license revenue it keeps.

Due to reach market in roughly a month’s time, the new system is based on technology developed by FastArchiver, a startup that Arcserve acquired earlier this year.

Both markets, company leaders tell ChannelPro during the 2017 Lenovo Accelerate partner conference, are lucrative “profit pools” that have received diminished attention in recent years amid Lenovo’s push into the server and storage hardware fields.†

Called ConnectWise Control Free, the new system lets one technician conduct one end user session via up to 3 access agents and can be upgraded to a paid version of the solution as an MSP’s needs grow more sophisticated.

The first in a planned series of products combining Lenovo servers and disk arrays with third-party software, the new offering comes with IBM’s Spectrum Scale file storage system.

Announced on opening day of the distributor’s 8th annual Cloud Summit event, the new benefits make increasing the size of cloud deals and monetizing internally developed cloud products easier for its partners.†

Newly added features, which include analytics and orchestration functionality and an enhanced user interface, position the distributor to turn Odin into a comprehensive platform for provisioning, orchestrating, and managing†cloud-based software and infrastructure.

Originally developed for use with Intercept X, the security vendor’s next-generation end point protection solution, CryptoGuard identifies ransomware attacks in real time, shuts them down, and automatically rolls impacted files back to their pre-encrypted state.

They include the manufacturer’s first model with a touchscreen control panel and built-in wired networking.