New Products, Services to Sell: AT&T, HP, RingCentral, VMware, Nextiva, More
Channel partners, feast your eyes on this UCaaS smorgasbord.
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HP is helping customers manage Microsoft Teams and Zoom Meetings.
HP will update its portfolio in February, adding new cameras, audio devices, sensors and control software.
THe company first entered the video conferencing systems market in 2018, and it has continued to fine-tune its video conferencing offering.
See what HP has been up to lately.
Windstream Enterprise is utilizing VMware for a new SASE offering.
The offering combines Windstream’s Cloud Core network and VMware SASE points of presence. As a result, remote access users will be able to harness their applications more securely.
Read about the solution.
Acronis has added 14 cloud locations over the last year.
So said Patrick Pulvermueller, the backup solutions provider’s new CEO. The additions bring the total of locations to 38.
“This allows you not to worry about items like data sovereignty or regulatory items because you can always keep the data in the region where your customers and clients’ workloads might be that you want to protect,” Pulvermueller said.
Edward Gately covered the Acronis CyberFit conference.
AT&T got it hands on new fiber courtesy of Frontier Communications.
A multiyear wholesale network agreement bolsters AT&T’s fiber coverage in the Northeast and the Southeast where Frontier has been building, including the states of Arizona, Utah and New York. The companies teamed up in 2011 to give Frontier accss to AT&T’s wireless network.
AT&T also launched a managed extended detection and response (XDR) solution.
Read about the partnership and the security offering.
And more AT&T …
The company is helping customers replace their POTS lines through a three-company alliance.
AT&T, RingCentral and DataRemote launched a new service that converts POTS analog to a VoIP managed facility voice network. A DataRemote appliance helps convert the various devices to RingCentral cloud features.
Learn about why so many vendors are rolling out POTS replacement solutions.
And more RingCentral …
The UCaaS provider added new APIs to its business communications platform.
Customers can now benefit from call performance analytics and audit trail features.
In addition, the company added multiple ISV partners to its program.
Edward Gately has the scoop.
Dell and VMware jointly rolled out a solution that makes multicloud operations across more consistent and secure.
Apex Cloud Services with VMware Cloud will likely become available in February. Customers will deploy the offering at their data center, an edge location or colocation facility.
Read about what else VMware and Dell launched.
Pure Storage teased plans to launch on-demand storage and database services in 2022.
Pure Storage has gained a reputation for its all-flash storage, but company leaders wanted to also include a strategy around hybrid cloud-based storage and database-as-a-service (DBaaS).
“Storage automation and virtualization were originally developed in the cloud for modern cloud-native apps,” one executive said. “Pure is now bringing this capability to you for both traditional and cloud-native apps in a hybrid cloud environment.”
Jeffrey Schwartz wrote about the announcement.
SaaS Alerts’ MSP customers can now monitor IT Glue user behavior.
Approximately 10,000 MSPs use IT Glue to streamline their operations. Now they will receive alerts about events that occur within IT Glue. SaaS Alerts CEO Jim Lippie likened notifications about credit card activity.
Allison Francis wrote about the new offering.
Splunk boosted its observability portfolio with several product innovations.
The vendor enhanced its Splunk Application Performance monitoring solution, as well as its Real User Monitoring solution.
Partners can sell everything in Splunk’s portfolio.
Read about eeverything Splunk announced at its .Conf21.
Lumen channel partners can sell a new unified communications offering.
Lumen teamed up with Cisco to launch Lumen’s Solutions for Cisco Unified Communications Manager Cloud. Lumen’s senior vice president of strategic sales said customers that have already bought Cisco Webex will find the offering appealing.
Get details on the solution.
The UCaaS provider integrated its contact center with its business phone system.
Nextiva announced the integration amid a host of changes. The company also added in-app support for audio files.
Executives said these changes improve the SMB customer experience.
Read more about Nextiva.
Connected2Fiber bolstered its connectivity insight, mapping and assurance capabilities.
The company unveiled its Assured Near Net service. The offering reportedly gaurantees accuracy of up 99.99% of the SLAs.
Read its the announcement.
The application delivery provider tackled multicloud environments with its latest updates.
Prosimo added a “Fastlane” feature that quickly launches edge points of presence to optimize application performance. Prosimo also added an “Autonomous Transit” feature that solves app-to-app transit issues.
Read more about Prosimo.
The application delivery provider tackled multicloud environments with its latest updates.
Prosimo added a “Fastlane” feature that quickly launches edge points of presence to optimize application performance. Prosimo also added an “Autonomous Transit” feature that solves app-to-app transit issues.
Read more about Prosimo.
Channel Partners love UCaaS.
Whether you’re a VAR, an MSP or an adviser, unified communications as a service and contact center as a service (CCaaS) have likely given your business a massive boost over the last two years.
Some of the biggest UCaaS providers updated their platforms last month. For example, 8×8 improved the meeting moderation process, and RingCentral enhanced its call performance analytics.
The telecom service providers rolled out a variety of new services last month. Cisco in two cases teamed up with a telco to launch a joint offering. And AT&T a launched a POTS replacement offering.
IT services and network infrastructure remain busy markets. SaaS Alerts gave MSPs a new tool to monitor a popular IT documentation app, and VMware and Dell teamed up to launch a solution together.
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Check out our previous new services roundup if you missed it.
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