2015 – Page 45 – ChannelBuzz.ca

Splunk signs first North America distribution deal with Arrow

March 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Splunk Light, a new product which is focused on the needs of mid-market companies, smaller than most of Splunk’s traditional customers, will require new partners focused on that area to sell it.

Hardware

Huawei, DataCore partner on hyper-converged solutions

March 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The DataCore-Huawei offerings are targeted at larger customers than the midmarket and lower end of the enterprise where other hyperconverged vendors have been most successful to date.

Patrick Eitenbichler, director of marketing strategy for PartnerOne at HP.

HP looks to ease partner path to split with Navigator program

March 17, 2015 Robert Dutt 1

HP’s Partner Navigator program aims to help distributors and large partners that buy direct to get ready for the impending split of HPI and HPE.

Lynn Anderson, senior vice president of demand generation and channel marketing at HP

HP moving partner marketing to planned MDF model

March 17, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

HP’s shift in MDF priorities will result in better campaigns, higher ROI and more overall MDF dollars available to partners, channel marketing chief says.

Nutanix unveils rigorous multi-hypervisor hyper-converged certification program

March 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Nutanix aims to create the equivalent of a Cisco CCIE certification for the hyperconverged world, that will establish its thought leadership, with a demanding certification program that tests the ability to design solutions on multiple hypervisors.

Condusiv releases first fragmentation prevention solution for SANs

March 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Condusiv’s Diskeeper 15 Server is the first fragmentation protection for SAN storage connected to physical servers. It prevents fragmentation in real time at the logical disk layer, increasing IO density so more data can be processed.

Much larger drive capacity highlights enhanced Drobo top-of-the-line release

March 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Drobo’s BeyondRAID technology also gets a boost, so that when you add a new drive it will configure the RAID array 800 per cent faster than before.

Equinix adds new global partner program in move to channel-friendly model

March 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Equinix expects that the new program, designed to end channel conflict and properly reward partners, will attract new partners and significantly raise channel revenues.