The Channel Happy Hour

Things We Talk About:

• SolarWinds Breach Roils Channel
• Bugcrowd Report Finds More Vulnerabilities
• CentOS Rebellion Gets Launched
• IBM Extends Alliance with Samsung
• Vercel Picks Up $40M to Advance React Framework
• Nubix Raises Seed Funding for Tiny Containers
• Red Hat Adds Support for Windows Containers
• Armory Extends Spinnaker CD Platform
• LinearB to Automate Project Management
• Netlify Adds Technology Partner Program
• NVIDIA Joins AWS Marketplace

Things We Talk About:

• Ingram Micro Sold Again
• FireEye Gets Hacked
• Oracle Moves to Austin
• New Relic Acquires Pixie Labs
• Weaveworks Picks Up $36.65M in Funding
• Aruba Looks to Centralize Network Management
• Mirantis Melds Kubernetes with OpenStack
• Hitachi Vantara Looks for Midmarket Partners

We chat with Sammy Kinlaw, vice president of endpoint solutions in the Americas for Tech Data, about what the long-time channel veteran sees happening in the world of endpoints as solution providers head into 2021.  

Things We Talk About:

• HPE Relocates to Houston
• AWS Enables Channel Partners
• Salesforce Acquires Slack
• Google Acquires Actifio
• Broadcom Expands AIOps Reach
• TOC for Kubernetes Deprecates Docker
• Report Finds Thousands of Container Vulnerabilities
• IBM Discovers COVID-19 Vaccine Attacks

Things We Talk About:

• Father of Indian IT Passes Away
• Report: IBM Layoffs Loom
• Canonical Allies with Docker Inc to Secure Containers
• Sumo Logic Report Sees Major Expansion of Attack Surfaces
• HashiCorp Extends Service Mesh
• Pure Storage Tweaks As a Service Model

Things We Talk About:

• CompTIA Publishes Outlook
• IBM Acquires Instana
• FireEye Acquires Respond Software
• Pax8 Advances SaaS App Management
• Ingram Micro Partners with nOps
• Rancher Labs Adds Kubernetes OEM Program
• CNCF Survey Sees Wider Container Adoption
• Sysdig Brings Microsegmentation to Kubernetes
• Gravitational Becomes Teleport
• OpsRamp Makes AIOps Simpler

We chat with Jamie Bourassa, vice president of edge computing and channel strategy for Schneider Electric, about just how big an opportunity edge computing represents for channel partners.

Things We Talk About:

• Survey Sees Digital Transformation Driving IT
• ConnectWise Expands Security Portfolio for MSPs
• JumpCloud Raises $75M
• Menlo Security Raises $100M
• Atlassian Launches ITSM Platform
• Canonical Applies Operator Model to Windows and Linux
• Intel Readies oneAPI Toolkit
• Linux Foundation Adds Professional DevOps Certificate

Things We Talk About:

• Channel Looks to the Economic Future
• Arctic Wolf Hires Former Channel Co. CEO
• Ingram Micro Adds Emerging Business Group
• Hitachi Creates Global Channel Program
• Algorithmia Allies with Datadog
• Qualys Secures Containers Using Lightweight Agent
• HackNotice to Democratize Security Intelligence

We chat with Logicalis CEO Jonathan Groves about the challenges facing channel partners in the age of COVID-19.