Topic: Cloud - Page 54

Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang (pictured) recapped the year of accomplishments since the last Transform, which he said has made the company the leader in “intelligent transformation.”

The two-day educational and networking event featured an agenda geared to help MSPs grow their businesses.

Named ShadowXafe and OneXafe, the new solutions feature a consolidated management interface that automatically configures SLA-based backup schemes for virtual and physical machines.

Called Arcserve Accelerate, it’s designed to re-ignite interest in the data protection and availability vendor, which has been led by a revamped leadership team since late last year, according to Vice President of Worldwide Sales Adam Olson (pictured).

The deal makes the Anchor file sync and share and Cloudfinder data backup solutions available through an indirect channel, and in small order quantities, for the first time.

CloudJumper and Continuum partner to combine software and services from Continuum with CloudJumper’s Workspace-as-a-Service solution.

The deal makes the U.K. vendor’s end-to-end wireless device charging solution, which combines local hardware and software with a cloud-based management platform, available to channel pros in the U.S. and Latin America for the first time.

Introduced at Microsoft’s Inspire partner conference, the library contains pre-written building blocks that users can snap together without coding to form fully-automated wizards for activities like setting up user accounts and standing up virtual machines.

Called the Wingman Professional Services Program, the new offering is less a strategic pivot into a new revenue source than an effort to help partners get cloud infrastructure practices up and running swiftly.

A first for the company, the move gives members of Microsoft’s CSP program access to a dramatically expanded line of solutions while giving the developers of those solutions access to an entirely new sales channel.