5 Channel Partner Updates: Thursday 06 June 2019 -

Here are five (actually, far more…) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Thursday, June 6, 2019.

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B. Freshly Brewed News and Chatter

1. ConnectWise & Datto Conferences: Meet ChannelE2E at ConnectWise IT Nation Explore 2019 or DattoCon19. To check our schedule for a potential briefing, please email me ([email protected]).

2. Microsoft Azure Managed Services: TwoConnect has launched BizTalk Support & Azure Managed Services -- including a three-day proof of concept (PoC) offering and associated migration consulting service. Details are in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

3. Managed Service - End User Experience: Orange Business Service is enhancing its Visibility-as-a-Service offer to help businesses take the guesswork out of their end-to-end application performance measurement, the service provider giant asserts. The solution is based on Riverbed’s SteelCentral Aternity technology.

4. Data Protection: VMware partner iland has launched Autopilot Managed Recovery for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). The fully managed business continuity solution, integrated with Veeam and Zerto, is designed to accelerate application recovery in the event of a data loss or significant downtime, the company says.

5. Big Data Disappoints: Cloudera announced a CEO change and weak financials today. Rival MapR has been scrambling to find a potential buyer. Bottom line: The Hadoop-oriented big data markets have been extreme disappointments -- at least for investors...

C. Partner Programs and Strategic Alliances

1. Storage: NetApp has launched the AFF C190 system, "a simple, smart and secure all-flash storage solution. The new entry-level solution was developed with the channel in mind, the company asserts.

2. Video Conferencing: Pexip, a provider of video conferencing and collaboration solutions, has unveiled an expanded PexAdvantage partner program.

3. Distribution: Arrow Electronics will leverage ON2IT's managed cybersecurity platform to help customers procure, manage, monitor, and remediate their cyber security investments, the two companies say.

4. ITSM - EMEA: Cherwell Software and Pink Elephant EMEA are partnering to help EMEA region businesses to effectively deploy IT Service Management (ITSM) and Enterprise Service Management.