Topic: Cloud - Page 71

The agreement is designed to designed to help the cloud software maker fuel adoption of its comprehensive IT-as-a-Service solution outside the U.S.

The deal brings together two workspace-as-a-service vendors with complementary business models and a long history of collaboration.

CEO John Lewe (pictured) also tells ChannelPro that he’s accepted an invitation from ConnectWise to attend this year’s IT Nation event and has no plans to participate in the vendor consolidation wave currently sweeping the industry.

Called Unite and targeted at businesses with up to 100 users, the system includes tightly integrated voice, cloud PBX, collaboration, file storage, and backup features, as well as all-new mobile and desktop apps and an enhanced web portal.

Designed to help businesses embrace cloud computing without exposing themselves to threats on-premises security solutions can miss, the system is the latest addition to Pax8’s portfolio of Symantec offerings.

ThinPrint Cloud Services, a subsidiary of the print solution experts ThinPrint, announces the availability of its new printing solution†ezeep Dash. With the new solution, printers and printer drivers are fully managed via a clearly organized portal. ezeep Dash doesn’t require any server and users print locally eliminating the need for an internet connection to the portal.

In a “state of the channel” presentation yesterday, Microsoft’s Gavriella Schuster (pictured) said the remodeled One Commercial Partner program she heads up has distributed over 80,000 sales leads since July.

Part of a dramatic overhaul of the giant vendor’s channel ecosystem, the new initiative gives partners primary sales ownership of some 170,000 mostly small and midsize companies worldwide.

The latest in a succession of high-profile eFolder hires, Bystrak (pictured) will now be responsible for developing strategic alliances and driving increased adoption of eFolder solutions in the channel.

The distributor has introduced new functionality for ordering and managing Aerohive Wireless-as-a-Service and Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud deployments through its online marketplace, and added products from F5 Networks to its line card.