Month: July 2015

Storage

Dell first OEM to bring TLC NAND flash drives to market

July 20, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell first OEM to bring TLC NAND flash drives to market
Intelligent placement technology in Dell’s SC array technology helps Dell get the new drives to market first – at street prices of $1.66/GB for all/flash and $0.58 for hybrid – which are raw storage, not deduped.

Virtualization

Two U.S.-based execs to run VMware’s Canadian operations

July 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Two U.S.-based execs to run VMware’s Canadian operations
VMware has made a significant restructuring of its North American operations, which will see the Western Field Ops head Corey Hutchison also run VMware Canada enterprise sales, and the Canadian commercial business run by Brandon Sweeney, Vice President, U.S. Commercial Business Unit.

Solution Provider News

ACCEO enhances ability to service larger retail chains with Gemmar Systems acquisition

July 16, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on ACCEO enhances ability to service larger retail chains with Gemmar Systems acquisition
ACCEO continues its drive into the retail space, following up its June acquisition of Multipost with a larger deal in which they acquire GSI, which has many large retail chain clients, and whose solutions are targeted to that larger type of chain retailer.

Software

iDashboards signs on Canadian VAR Phoenix Systems in North American channel push

July 16, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on iDashboards signs on Canadian VAR Phoenix Systems in North American channel push
Phoenix, which is based in Newmarket, but which has offices across Canada and in the U.S., adds a key partner to iDashboards, which makes visually appealing business intelligence dashboard software.

Data Centre

Seagate looks to new enterprise partners as eVault brand departs in enterprise push

July 16, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Seagate looks to new enterprise partners as eVault brand departs in enterprise push
The scalability of the old eVault solutions has been massively increased up to 400 per cent, so Seagate is rebranding them with the Seagate name and looking to extend them into the enterprise data centre market, as well as the ROBO space where they play today.

Managed Services

Tigerpaw, AVG further strengthen relationship with Service Desk Connector integration

July 15, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tigerpaw, AVG further strengthen relationship with Service Desk Connector integration
AVG, which through Level Platforms has a long and strong relationship with Tigerpaw, has completed the first RMM integration to Tigerpaw’s new Web-based API. More Tigerpaw integrations, many of them net-new, are on the way.

Security

Black Hat attendees: Enterprise security wastes most budget and resources

July 15, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Black Hat attendees: Enterprise security wastes most budget and resources
The 2015 Black Hat Attendee Survey offers several takeaways that indicate a need to rethink the current enterprise IT security model. Perhaps the most important is that security pros are not spending their time and budget in a manner that is commensurate with their concerns about current threats.

Microsoft Office chief Julia White
Software

Whither SharePoint? Microsoft says no

July 15, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Whither SharePoint? Microsoft says no
Microsoft fires back at rivals who say its eye is off its enterprise content platform as it turns it eyes to full engaging Office 365 customers.

Cloud

New Arcserve Cloud caps frenetic year since company’s independence from CA

July 14, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Arcserve Cloud caps frenetic year since company’s independence from CA
The cloud itself comes from a partner, which does have a Canadian data centre capacity. It is first available as an integration with Arcserve’s UDP appliance and is likely to have special appeal to MSPs, including those not presently offering managed services.

Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice president of the One Commercial Partner organization at Microsoft
Channel Programs

Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider program goes mainstream

July 14, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider program goes mainstream
With more products, more partners, and more distribution, Microsoft is making its popular CSP program the main way partners sell its cloud services.