Year: 2014

Cloud

N-able expands Arcserve relationship with Arcserve UDP

December 11, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on N-able expands Arcserve relationship with Arcserve UDP
N-able expands on its relationship with arcserve to carry the arcserve next-gen UDP solution for the first time, which is branded as N-able Backup Manager UDP.

Data Centre

Pure Storage enters converged infrastructure market with all-flash FlashStack solutions

December 11, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage enters converged infrastructure market with all-flash FlashStack solutions
Two solutions were announced, both of which use Cisco and VMware as partners, but more converged all-flash solutions are coming from Pure, and these will use additional vendor partners as well.

Big Data

IBM, Apple deliver first wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS apps

December 11, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on IBM, Apple deliver first wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS apps
Aimed at both the enterprise and mid-market, the new apps will be customized, integrated and deployed by partners, and IBM will support partners here with several new tools.

Cloud

BitTitan extends MigrationWiz to migrate DropBox to One Drive for Business and Google Drive

December 10, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on BitTitan extends MigrationWiz to migrate DropBox to One Drive for Business and Google Drive
BitTitan sees their tool to migrate DropBox accounts to Microsoft One Drive for Business or Google Drive as particularly appealing to customers looking to consolidate all their data.

Unified Communications

Avaya repositions collaboration offerings with Avaya Engagement Solutions portfolio

December 10, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avaya repositions collaboration offerings with Avaya Engagement Solutions portfolio
Avaya rebrands and reorganizes its collaboration solutions to focus on engagement, and announces some significant new and enhanced solutions, including a beefed-up version of IP Office.

Cloud

Asigra selects AWS as first third party provider to expand partner cloud infrastructure options

December 9, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra selects AWS as first third party provider to expand partner cloud infrastructure options
Partners asked Asigra to provide an integration with the AWS cloud because AWS prices now make it feasible to use it and make money.

Mitchell Martin, president of Synnex Canada.
Distribution

Synnex Canada finds its future in its Solvs

December 9, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Synnex Canada finds its future in its Solvs
Synnex Canada is refocusing itself with increased attention to its “Solvs” — solutions-centric practice areas around topics like cloud and managed print.

Mark Macaulay, senior director of sales for TP-Link Canada
Networking

TP-Link enters managed switch fray

December 9, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on TP-Link enters managed switch fray
Networking vendor TP-Link looks to expand beyond SOHO with the new JetStream 28 port switch, its first L3 managed switch.

Software

Enhanced DFS namespace automation highlights Data DynamicsStorageX 7.5 release

December 8, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Enhanced DFS namespace automation highlights Data DynamicsStorageX 7.5 release
Improved automation of Microsoft’s DFS global namespace management capability highlights this release.

Storage

Canadian retailers ring up low scores in backup protection in new EMC-sponsored study

December 5, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canadian retailers ring up low scores in backup protection in new EMC-sponsored study
EMC Canada’s Michael Sharun also stressed that channel partners (and sales people generally) need to do a better job of adding backup and recovery to their storage sales.