Infoblox unveils Skilled to Secure new partner programme

Infoblox, a vendor in cloud-first networking and security services, unveils its new partner program, designed to maximise opportunities partners can secure and deliver. The Skilled to Secure trusted partner program reflects the changing security landscape and shifting customer requirements – and the need for providers of security solutions and services to adapt in response.

In the new program, partners will be assigned levels based on their acquisition of the competencies required to deliver BloxOne and maximise its value for customers.

Benefits partners can gain through the new program include partner-hunted sales incentives and deal registration, “Guardians of the Network” rewards and incentives, marketing campaigns, marketing development funds, and demonstration software.

The Skilled to Secure program is built around three tracks designed to deliver support across the channel: Value-added Reseller and Systems Integrator, Service Provider, and Value-added distributor. Based on their track record and meeting the defined competency requirements, partners’ awarded level will be announced in May 2023.

Infoblox BloxOne is the first cloud-native platform delivering DDI – DNS, DHCP, and IPAM, and DNS data-enabled threat detections, and offers partners predictable, reliable renewal margins year after year. A Forrester Economic Impact Report found that BloxOne Threat Defense can deliver a staggering 243% return on investment. lurk through all the stages of the supply chain of both the industries. The very nature of these industries makes them vulnerable to workplace fatalities.

Integrated into the security ecosystem, BloxOne enables DNS data to be used to address blind spots in enterprise threat defence and security systems. Internal and external threats can be identified, prioritised, and remediated in a fraction of the time without significant additional investment in new solutions.

(Left to right) Simran Bagga, Vice President of Omnix Engineering and Foundation Technologies and Gary Ng, Founder and CEO of viAct.

In fact, the construction industry is regarded as one of “the most dangerous industries” for experiencing the highest number of workplace deaths. The oil and gas industry is no far behind. According the safety report released by the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, IOGP, there has been a 10% hike in the overall total recordable injury rate in the industry in 2021 than in 2020.

Omnix, an end-to-end digital solutions and services pioneer, announced that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with viAct, a leading ESG-focused AI company, to foster digitalisation and boost safety in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction and oil and gas Industry across the Gulf Cooperation Council region. According to the agreement, Omnix will become the master distributor of viAct’s products and services across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain.

Omnix International has a long-standing legacy of over 35 years as an industry-leading provider of solutions in digital infrastructure, digital transformation in the AEC industry, computer-aided engineering, and cybersecurity, cloud computing, Autodesk trainings and BIM consultancy services in the GCC region and across the world.

Omnix has been working with the AEC and oil and gas industry in digital transformation, training and implementation of advanced technologies by providing best-in-class digital solutions for the public and private sector across the GCC region. It has also been the value-added distributor of Autodesk and Faro solutions for the region.

The AEC and oil and gas industries are two of the most prominent, lucrative and at the same time critical industries. Safety concerns viAct, since its very inception, has been striving to make jobsites safer, efficient and sustainable. It has engaged itself in constant and rigorous R&D to develop and improve its proprietary scenario-based AI to offer smart and innovative AI solutions that leverage the power of industrial grade video analytics to cater to various safety needs of different industries like construction and oil and gas. Its various solutions that leverage the power of AI video analytics for the oil and gas industry and AEC industry for locking safety and productivity in these sectors, includes:

Work at Height Safety Monitoring

With AI video analytics fall from height, FFHs; slips, trips and falls, STFs; workers not wearing, proper PPE like hard hats, safety jackets, safety ropes, etc.; workers’ improper means of climbing, and such others can be detected to ensure work at height safety.