The Channel Happy Hour

Things We Talk About:

• Great Resignation Wave Will Hit Channel
• Foundation to Advance eBPF Formed
• Kong Takes Aim at Load Balancers
• Cisco Acquires Epsagon
• BettyBlocks Raises $33 Million
• Qualys Acquires TotalCloud
• Report Finds Rising Threats to APIs
• Ransomware is Good for MSP Business
• IBM Refreshes z/OS

Things We Talk About:

• The Primary Target
• Cloud Wars Enter Next Phase
• ServiceNow Acquires Swarm64
• Sophos Acquires Refactr
• Report Surfaces Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
• Epiphany Systems Courts MSPs
• Kubernetes 1.22 Arrives
• TriggerMesh Previews Integration Language
• NVIDIA Lowers Barrier to AI
• Edge Computing Security Becomes an Issue

Things We Talk About

• Report: Internal IT Approaches Breaking Point
• Data Protection Vendors Court MSPs
• Red Hat Allies with Nutanix
• Red Hat Embraces Kafka
• WhiteSource Fixes Vulnerabilities in Code
• Shoreline Automates Repetitive Tasks
• Dell Makes Case for On-Premises IT

Things We Talk About:

• Report: Emerging Tech Makes a Mark
• AWS Delivers SAN via the Cloud
• Dremio Adds Managed Data Lake Service
• CloudFoundry Updates PaaS Environment
• Cofense Adds Cofense Protect MSP to Thwart Phishing
• Survey Surfaces Ransomware Damage
• Sysdig Acquires Apolicy
• Rapid7 Acquires Intsights Cyber
• CloudTruth Acquires Tuono
• Survey Sees DevOps Stagnation

Things We Talk About:

• IT Spending May Contract
• Ingram Micro Sale Closes
• Rapid7 Unifies Security Platform
• Sophos Acquires Capsule8
• Zoho Launches BI Platform
• Microsoft Unfurls Cloud PC

Things We Talk About:

• Kaseya Security Nightmare Impact
• Barracuda Networks Acquires SKOUT
• HPE Acquires Zerto
• Cisco Updates Channel Program
• Gartner Estimates Cloud Provider Share
• Oracle Makes Cloud Case
• Red Hat Updates OpenShift
• Canonical Survey Surfaces Kubernetes Challenges

Things We Talk About:

• Survey Shows Remote Benefitting MSPs
• Splunk Unfurls Cloud Security Service
• Dynatrace Applies AI to Cybersecurity
• Cowbell Cyber Adds MSSPs to Insurance Program
• Intel Touts 5G Progress
• Salesforce Gets DevOps
• HPE Expands GreenLake Services
• PagerDuty Transforms IT Incident Management
• DigitalOcean Allies with MongoDB
• Ambassador Labs Adds Control Plane for Developers

Things We Talk About:

• Surveys Surface IT Mess
• Render Adds Autoscaling Platform
• Broadcom Adds VSM to Portfolio
• WSO2 Applies AI to API Management
• Red Hat Adds VM Migration Toolkit
• DataStax Embraces Pulsar
• Red Hat Survey Finds Widespread Container Security Issues
• Grafana Acquires k6
• Survey: Partners Count More on Services
• Survey: Ransomware Victims Hit Again

Things We Talk About:

• Cisco Unfurls WebEx Suite
• Palo Alto Networks Discover Windows Container Attack
• Deloitte Acquires CloudQuest
• Nutanix Woos Service Providers
• CloudBolt Adds Cloud Cost Tool
• Morpheus Data Deepens Kubernetes Support
• HashiCorp Increases Terraform Appeal
• Lightbend Adds Serverless DevOps Platform
• Snowflake Opens Data Marketplace

We chat with Eric Tinker, newly promoted to senior vice president of commercial sales for Riverbed, about the opportunity network performance management is creating for channel partners.