Called My Workspace, the new portal is designed to make selling and supporting SonicWall products easier for providers of managed security services. New monthly pricing aims to make paying for those solutions via recurring revenue easier as well.

The new site, which is designed to help end users find Intel partner solutions while also helping Intel partners forge relationships with one another, is an important step in the company’s ongoing effort to combine and modernize its various partner programs.

Named GreenLake Central, the new dashboard enables centralized provisioning and administration of both onsite GreenLake infrastructure and offsite workloads in the Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure public clouds.

The day-long event gathers channel pros and security experts to discuss insights, research, and best security practices for the Internet of Things.

The new financing programs, which were announced on the same day as plans to extend Ingram’s Direct Express credit offering to Canadian partners, are designed to help ease the transition for resellers to the everything-as-a-service era of IT.

Unlike BDR products, CloudOak’s Plan4Continuity lets MSPs earn recurring revenue from helping clients define and perform all of the steps needed to keep people safe and systems operational after a fire, tornado, or security breach.

Much requested by users, the new feature lets technicians control endpoints and conduct support sessions through the same mobile software they already use to perform other remote management tasks.

Wrapping up its highest attendance year ever, ChannelPro hosted MSPs, IT consultants, VARs, and integrators for a full day of business building and networking.

Faster pricing processes for both as-a-service and more traditional solutions are among a wave of updates to HPE’s Partner Ready program that includes expanded access to demos and a streamlined partner onboarding process.

Both companies see offering Nerdio’s simplified Microsoft cloud services as a means of capitalizing on exploding demand for Microsoft Azure and forthcoming adoption of Windows Virtual Desktop.