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network architecture and design process
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to physical on-premise deployments. This
architecture leverages network appliances
Management Agency (FEMA) within the
waiver or reduced ‘good customer’ rate
award-winning next-gen Infrastructure as
renders it easier for customers to replicate
at the core of all deployments. OrionVM
Public Safety and Homeland Security
practice?
on an as-needed basis.
a Service (IaaS) provider, has announced
the continued growth of the OrionVM Wholesale Cloud Platform with the addition of technology partner WatchGuard® Technologies, a leader in advanced network
on-premise topologies and best-practices
in the cloud; a departure from other public cloud providers that approach networking in a different way to traditional architectures. WatchGuard provides comprehensive
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security solutions. This partnership will
organization. Most recently, Ruditsky was part of the
a successful sale to K1 Investment Man-agement in
opportunities for the channel partner
late 2017. Ruditsky will lead an international team of
community, especially MSPs and resellers
BlueJeans team members and partners to continue
looking to bundle best-in-class network
the growth and expansion of its channel business and
security with their cloud solutions. The revpenaruten.ership between OrionVM and
services at a sustainable cost, giving
are fully aware of the impact that meeting and
service providers a competitive advantage
collaboration solutions like BlueJeans have on the
and allowing them to focus on their core
morale, engagement and bottom line of the business.
competencies. Channel partners can easily
There is literally an endless runway for us to grow with
deploy WatchGuard templates directly on
our part-ner community.”
virtual IPs; a feature glaringly absent on
The Ingram Micro distribution agreement follows
other IaaS providers that prefer to force
the announcement of BlueJeans’ re-cently expanded
a specific firewall solution with limited
channel program for partners that include BlueJeans
flexibility and customization.
in their unified communications solutions and help
“We are thrilled to make our templates
customers migrate from legacy conferencing solu-tions
available on the OrionVM Wholesale
to BlueJeans’ modern cloud platform. The program
Cloud Platform,” said Danny Banks,
offers additional benefits and incentives to partners
Technical Director at WatchGuard. “Virtual
who invest in the skills and certifications required
environments are complex to manage
to deliver successful customer outcomes. Since
and vulnerable to security threats. With
the program was instituted, channel partners have
WatchGuard, virtualized environments can
increased pipeline deals with impressive growth among
be just as secure as physical ones by taking
large enterprise, finance and education customers.
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benefiting from both solutions, with
place. For Microsoft customers, meetings are also
ease of deployment and adaptive, flexible
remarkably simple with the Blue-Jeans Gateway
configuration suiting their specific working
for Microsoft Teams providing one-touch meeting
environments. Hosting WatchGuard
and native calendar-ing on any room system. In
FireboxV on OrionVM provides resellers
addition, BlueJeans now includes Microsoft Office 365
with unique cost-savings and deployment
scheduling, which provides one-touch calendar and
advantages compared to other CSPs in the
meeting entry from Mac, Win-dows and Outlook Web
marketplace.
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palm, vein patterns, and voice
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recordings, from which an identifier
meeting, has an-nounced a U.S. distribution
template, such as a faceprint, a
ent with Ingram Micro Inc., extending the
minutiae template, or a voiceprint,
n-ship after successfully selling together in
can be extracted, and keystroke
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patterns or rhythms, gait patterns
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identifying information.”
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to BlueJeans Meetings, BlueJeans Rooms and
robocalls and robotexts?
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yees, partners and customers who work togethe
: The FCC has urged the
eJeans is a cloud-native meetings platform and
telecom industry to establish
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ans and ex-pand our U.S. portfolio to include
a press release asking for carriers
an’s one-touch video, audio and web confer-
to implement the SHAKEN/STIR
solutions.”
framework in 2019. The acronyms,
eJeans also announced that channel industry
Signature-based Handling of
ive, Barry Ruditsky, joined the company as
Asserted Information Using
lobal Channels. Ruditsky spent nearly 11 years
toKENs (SHAKEN) and the Secure
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Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR),
resellers and channel partners with a global sal
create a framework for validating call information transmitted across a complex network of systems and carriers.
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competitive layer of security to virtual
ISV and OEM relationships with IBM and built and
instances.
launched a global VAR program that helped lead to
This collaboration opens new business
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