Manage Protect to distribute Soonr. Silicon Valley based file sharing platform Soonr will be distributed in Australia via security provider Manage Protect. Soonr will be the first cloud “fileshare/collaboration service” with local infrastructure and targeted at small to medium businesses to be delivered completely via the channel in Australia, claimed a Manage Protect representative. Manage Protect has 450 resellers in Australia. Data will be stored at a Vocus data centre…

ARN is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2013 ARN ICT Awards. Competition was tough across all categories, this year. We were particularly impressed with the number of entrants in the new award category, Homegrown Innovators, in which a varied group of nominees put their best foot forward in both the Service Provider of the Year and the Software Developer of the Year awards. Congratulations to all our worthy…

Online security SaaS provider, Manage Protect (www.manageprotect.com), has demonstrated its commitment to the security market in New Zealand by appointing Steve West in the new role of Manage Protect ANZ Partner Manager as well as appointing Soft Solutions as its New Zealand distributor. “Manage Protect is committed to increasing our local partnerships in New Zealand and we are now investing heavily in this growing market. New Zealand businesses are increasingly…

A new service from cloud security provider Manage Protect offers data leakage protection from the cloud. By addressing the issue of data leakage protection from the cloud, Manage Protect thinks it has a solution that will suit managed service providers and systems integrators as well as individual business clients. Managing director Andrew Johnson said “We’ve launched MPaware in response to a growing number of our MSP partners taking on a…

Includes online portal and marketing funds. Security-as-a-service provider Manage Protect has launched a partner program for its managed services partners. The program included a new online partner portal, access to training and marketing funds. Andrew Johnson, Manage Protect’s managing director, said the objective of the program was to put a structure around its recent activities. “We are demonstrating a renewed commitment to working with each and every partner to achieve joint success,”…

Half of franchisees sign to sell Aussie vendor’s MPmail. The national network of Jim’s Computer Services, a division of Jim’s Group, has added Manage Protect’s MPmail managed service to its franchisees’ offerings. Over half of the 85 national franchisees have signed agreements with the Australian software-as-a-service email security provider to resell MPmail. The remainder should sign in the next six weeks, Andrew Johnson (pictured), Manage Protect’s managing director, said. Jim’s Computer Services –…

SaaS provider takes on Telstra with new managed exchange product Company aims to provide managed service providers with self-branded packages Software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, Manage Protect, has launched its new managed exchange product. MPexchange aims to provide value added resellers (VARs) and managed service providers (MSPs) with the ability to offer customers a fully functional and off-site Microsoft Exchange 2007 platform, according to Manage Protect managing director, Andrew Johnson. He claimed…

Manage Protect appoints channel marketing manager Marketing program manager to work with resellers to push products to market. Security software-as-a-service provider, Manage Protect, has appointed its first dedicated channel marketing manager, Vickie Helson. She will be responsible for the execution of joint marketing campaigns with partners and joins the company after three years as a product manager at Ethernet provider and Optus subsidiary, Uecomm. “I don’t think anything needs changing,” Helson…