CharTec: Blending HaaS, Backup and Sophos Security

AlexRogers CharTec

For Sophos, the CharTec move comes only a few days after McAfee announced a formalized MSP partner program. Also, rivals like Kaspersky Lab, Symantec and Trend Micro have been making MSP-centric moves in recent months as well.

Meanwhile, CharTec made a name for itself in three areas:

Now, CharTec and its sister company (ARRC Technology) are marching forward with a Sophos partnership — “enabling CharTec partners to exclusively offer their clients Sophos’ complete security solutions as part of their MSP offering.” I believe CharTec and Reflexion Networks also partner on email security.

Sophos is an interesting choice because the company blends endpoint security (anti-virus, anti-malware) with unified threat management (UTM) solutions. Sophos acquired Astaro, a UTM company, about a year ago. The two companies’ channel programs were recently integrated, and channel partners are now cross-selling all of the Sophos solutions.

Back at CharTec, Rogers offered this parting tip while speaking with me at CompTIA Breakaway: Check out the company’s new configuration tool — which makes HaaS and managed services financial management much easier. I didn’t have a chance to see the tool in action but I’d welcome input from MSPs that have given it a try.