Channel Brief: Sherweb Adds Seven New Vendors to Marketplace

If you're an MSP who wants to get better at networking, MSP expert and blogger Richard Tubb has a great post up this week on that very topic.

Networking, Tubb says, is a way to build connections with other business owners -- to gain referrals, trade tricks, share stories and advice and open up avenues for collaboration.

Events are a huge way to start networking.

"If you go [to events] with a willingness to collaborate, all kinds of opportunities can open up. For instance, I’ve been able to put together courses on finding customers with a sales trainer giving advice on closing the sale. And a PR expert helped me help my clients find speaking gigs," Tubb writes.

"Finally, by showing up regularly, you’ll build connections that become friendships. And then you can be vulnerable and ask for support and advice when things aren’t going so well. You’ll know that you’re in a safe space to do so," he said.

As always, drop me a line at [email protected] if you have news to share or want to say hi!

Grab your coffee. Here's what you need to know today.

Today’s Tech, Channel and MSP News

1. Sherweb adds seven new vendors to marketplace: Sherweb has added seven new vendors to their cloud marketplace, the company announced last week. The expansion is a direct result of market demand, and partners will now have access to Keeper Security, Check Point with Avanan and Perimeter81, KeepIT, Wasabi, USecure, and HacWare. The addition of these new vendors increases the breadth and depth of Sherweb's cloud solutions as well as expert support. This news follows the recent introduction of additional Veeam solutions and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud to Sherweb’s product catalog. The new vendors will be made available to MSP partners in the coming months, starting with Keeper Security on November 29. More vendors are expected to be announced throughout 2025.

2. Nutanix extends AI platform to the public cloud: Hybrid multi-cloud computing provider Nutanix extended its AI infrastructure platform with Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI), that can be deployed on any Kubernetes platform, at the edge, in core data centers, and on public cloud services like AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE, according to a statement. The NAI offering delivers a consistent hybrid multi-cloud operating model for accelerated AI workloads, enabling organizations to leverage their models and data in a secure location of their choice while improving return on investment (ROI). Leveraging NVIDIA NIM for optimized performance of foundation models, Nutanix Enterprise AI helps organizations securely deploy, run, and scale inference endpoints for large language models (LLMs) to support the deployment of generative AI (GenAI) applications quickly.

3. Sysdig launches open-source threat detection: Sysdig is launching Falco Feeds by Sysdig, an expansion on its runtime threat detection solution, Falco. Falco Feeds by Sysdig capabilities include fully managed feeds from Sysdig's threat research team, coverage of regulatory and compliance frameworks (NIST, NIS2, DORA, SOC2, HIPAA, and FedRAMP), and automated rule distribution for reduced maintenance.

4. Mitel partners with Talkative for AI customer service: Mitel is teaming up with AI customer service solutions firm Talkative in an expanded partnership that will bring leading generative AI tools to Mitel’s contact center solutions. Talkative’s suite of AI-driven customer service tools now fully integrates with Mitel’s contact center portfolio, including AI-enhanced live chat, virtual agents, social messaging, SMS, and video chat. The new AI-powered capabilities also enable companies to leverage automation to answer everyday customer questions. Using a company’s existing product and support information, company-specific AI knowledge bases can train virtual agents to create intent-based conversation flows that promote self-service options.

5. TD SYNNEX earns Amazon RDS Services Delivery specialization: TD SYNNEX has earned the prestigious Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Services Delivery Specialization, making it, according to distributor's official announcement, “the first global solutions aggregator to achieve this designation.” The Amazon RDS Services Delivery Specialization, part of the AWS Service Delivery Program, certifies partners with deep technical expertise and proven experience in delivering Amazon RDS services. This designation recognizes TD SYNNEX’s ability to manage database monitoring, security, and performance optimization across multiple database engines such as Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle and SQL Server.