Topic: Cloud - Page 78

It doesn’t exist as a shipping product yet, anyway. An experimental virtual desktop infrastructure system demoed at Datto’s annual North American partner conference this week has attendees buzzing with interest though.

A new edition of the vendor’s hosted workspace solution allows users to connect natively to a Microsoft Windows desktop without the need for connection brokers or other third-party components.

Called Project Domination and targeted at members of Microsoft’s soon-to-be-retired Online Services Advisor program, the campaign offers up to 90 days of free Office 365 service, plus free support.

At its annual North American partner event this morning, the BDR vendor unveiled an all-new cloud backup platform, multiple additions to its all-flash SIRIS 3 X appliance family, and a new release of its ALTO small business backup device.

The new release allows MSPs to host the system, which provides everything needed to build and run complete SMB networks, in the public cloud as well as on Adar’s own private cloud.

Based on a hardware subscription plan introduced last year, the distributor’s new “technology as a service” offering lets resellers charge end users for devices, cloud-based solutions, and managed services on a single recurring bill.

The move arms Kaseya partners to administer public cloud environments in addition to on-premises resources.

Combining the distributor’s old and new assets is benefitting partners in tangible ways already, Americas president Joe Quaglia (pictured) says, including an expanded, consolidated line card and access to managed security offerings.

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

The new services provide architecture design best practices, migration management, and cloud automation support throughout customers’ AWS cloud journey.