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With Pure Storage having announced significant updates to its partner program , delivering heightened value and performance to partners , tailored to their unique business models , Greenlaw tells us more .

“ I would say that the updates are primarily designed to enhance our partners experience of working with Pure Storage and really the philosophy behind this is to enable them to develop full autonomy and effectively additional empowerment is what we ’ re trying to give to our channel partners ,” said Greenlaw .

“ I want Pure Partners to invest and build a Pure Practice in order that they can take more market share themselves .

“ That ’ s a big change so they can drive more profitability for themselves .” Turn to page 19 to read the full article . On pages 24 to 27 , in this month ’ s Future Tech feature we look at how Prefeitura de Itaúna recovered critical services within 24 hours of ransomware attack with help from Veeam and its partner MGDATA .

We hear how MGDATA migrated all the organization ’ s IT systems to its private cloud platform and set up remote access for the municipality ’ s employees via thin clients on each desktop .

“ MGDATA detected the threat immediately and blocked Internet access to stop the attack in its tracks ,” said Cláudio Machado , CIO , Prefeitura de Itaúna “ They used Veeam ’ s Instant Recovery feature to restore our IT environment to the last known restore point , which was only 15 minutes previously . We were able to get most users up and running again within 24 hours , before restoring all services within 53 hours – a massive achievement .”

Elsewhere on pages 47 and 48 , you can meet this month ’ s Channel Chief Pedro Bellucci , Channel Sales Manager at Hillstone Brazil .

Don ’ t forget you can read daily news updates on our website . I ’ d like to wish you a good month ahead and please enjoy the read !

Mark Bowen Editorial Director

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