New Products, Services: AWS, Windstream, Microsoft, TD Synnex, More
Microsoft Teams integrations are ever so popular.
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Any TD Synnex partner can sell a Microsoft Teams bundle that leverages Poly and Ribbon Communications.
The offering brings together the ever-so-popular Teams solution with deskphones or video bars from Poly and voice enablement services from Ribbon. Executives said they want to provide workers with location-agnostic efficiency and connectedness.
Claudia Adrien wrote about the bundle.
AWS launched a managed wide area network (WAN).
AWS Cloud WAN technically went live in December, but now any company can buy it.
The service connects data centers, branch offices and cloud workloads to AWS infrastructure.
Amazon’s hyperscaler division also launched a tool that asses vendors’ SaaS applications on its marketplaces.
Jeffrey Schwartz covered the recent AWS product announcements.
Windstream Enterprise integrated its voice and unified communications solutions with Microsoft Teams.
The team-up allows customers to perform advanced telephony features on Microsoft Teams. They also can access cloud-based connectivity.
Windstream manages the offering.
Get details on the integration.
Cisco gave its wholesale partners a new model to sell Webex.
The new Cisco Wholesale for Webex route to market gives service providers a single commercial contract that Cisco execs say will solve their pain points in dealing with SMB customers. The co-branded offerings are Webex Calling, Webex Suite, Common Area Calling and Webex Meetings
Learn about the new route to market for Webex.
Fusion Connect‘s new security offering includes endpoint management.
Executives said the portfolio utiliziles unified threat management (UTM) and remote access VPN.
“Using artificial intelligence and strategic managed services partners are ways to ensure organizations are protected and can mitigate threats before the attack occurs,” Fusion Connect’s vice president of security said.
Learn more about the offering.
A new N-Able remote monitoring and management platform lets new MSPs scale at a competitive price.
N-sight RMM functions on Windows, Linux and Apple and uses no-code automation. Its “fast assist” feature speeds up remote deskop management, the company said.
Learn about N-sight RMM.
RingCentral Rooms expanded to include new hardware and features.
The Rooms offering extends RingCentral video to give office workers the same conferencing experience as a home worker. New features including sharing the screen of one’s mobile device.
Avocor, Jabra and EPOS all are conducting hardware partnerships with RingCentral.
Read Claudia Adrien’s article about RingCentral.
Microsoft is getting the most mentions in this month’s roundup.
The Redmond, Washington-based behemoth unveiled a cloud infrastructure entitlement management product. Entra Permissions Management lets customers enforce least privilege access across a variety of clouds.
Then, at Microsoft Inspire, the company launched its Digital Contact Center. The offering leverages both Teams and Dynamics 365.
In addition, Microsoft and Oracle launched Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure (ODSA).
Read Jeffrey Schwartz’s article about Entra Permissions Management.
Fortinet‘s new AWS-based offering helps organizations track down and remediate risks in their cloud workloads.
Fortinet said FortiCNP will help MSSPs build efficiency, ROI and margins. The offering also marks Fortinet’s entrance in to the list of AWS Security Competency Partners.
Edward Gately covered the announcement, which Fortinet made at AWS:Reinforce.
D&H Distributing resellers can now deliver Microsoft Surface for Business.
The distributor added the Surface for Business portfolio to its line card. That includes Laptop 4, Laptop Go 2, Pro X and Duo 2. According to D&H executives, these offerings will help partners target customers in verticals like education and health care.
Edward Gately has the scoop.
Secure access service edge (SASE) provider Cato Networks added data loss prevention.
Smart DLP scans all network traffic to ensure users aren’t sending sensitive files or information.The DLP engine belongs to Cato’s Security Service Edge (SSE) platform).
The launch came a month after Cato launched network-based ransomware protection.
See Cato’s press release.
Concentric launched a suite of services that include ransomware preparedness.
The risk consultancy firm announced three packages of cybersecurity services as well as a listing of a la carte offerings.
Concentric appears to be gearing the Eclipse solution to both consumers and businesses.
See the announcement.
Concentric launched a suite of services that include ransomware preparedness.
The risk consultancy firm announced three packages of cybersecurity services as well as a listing of a la carte offerings.
Concentric appears to be gearing the Eclipse solution to both consumers and businesses.
See the announcement.
AWS, Cato Networks and many other vendors have recently unveiled new products and services.
The dog days of summer are in full swing, and vendors across the information communications technology (ICT) indirect sales channel continue to launch new offerings. A growing majority of these manufacturers and suppliers are focusing on cloud-based, subscription-based services that channel partners can sell to SMB and enterprise customers.
Hyperscaling giant AWS launched multiple new services, including one for cloud WAN.
Microsoft Teams was yet again a popular subject of integrations. Windstream announced an integration to provide advanced telephony for the platform, and a distributor teamed up with two other vendors around Teams. Microsoft also announced a new security feature of its own.
This list also includes a remote monitoring and management provider launching a new platform for MSPs. There’s also a unified communications provider unveiling a new collaboration hub.
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Check out the June new services roundup if you missed it.
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