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Lenovo makes a big push into edge computing and IoT, showcasing several new smart technologies across a wide range of categories at their Accelerate partner conference.

Speaking with ChannelPro at last week’s meeting of the TechSelect partner community, U.S. sales leader Marc McClure (pictured) discussed plans to grow his team of account execs, technical specialists, and other partner-facing staff by 10 to 15 percent.

Pax8’s backend ordering and management infrastructure now exchanges data with Kaseya’s PSA platform. Liongard’s automated discovery and documentation solution now imports endpoint data from Kaseya’s RMM system.

The new Analytics and IoT Solution Factory, like the previously introduced Cloud Solution Factory, is designed to help partners capitalize on a rapidly growing next-generation IT market faster, more easily, and with less risk.

Called Network Glue, the new system automatically discovers, documents, and diagrams all of the workstations, servers, routers, switches, and other IP-based devices in an end user’s environment.

Available at no extra charge to Kaseya BMS users with a Cytracom account, the new feature automatically displays screen pops about inbound support calls and lets technicians create tickets directly from within that window.

That includes you, channel pros. Once targeted mostly at a handful of big partners, HP’s subscription-priced purchasing program is headed your way with new and more flexible service plans, integrations with managed services software platforms, and more.

Called Unitrends Cloud Backup and available at “aggressive” prices, the new offering is designed to provide an affordable alternative to appliance-based BDR solutions that replicate data to the cloud.

The new functionality is part of an ongoing effort to turn UDP into a comprehensive platform protection data on physical and virtual systems both locally and in the cloud.

Changes to the company’s offerings include its first mobile app, first browser-based desktop app, first SMS messaging tool, and first custom-designed desk phone, as well as all-new Office 365 integration, new pricing plans, and heavier volume discounts.