Year: 2015

Storage

Veeam CEO lays out three-pronged strategy going forward

October 28, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam CEO lays out three-pronged strategy going forward
Deepening enterprise penetration, increasing cloud business, and improving attach rate on partner VMware and Microsoft sales are at the top of Veeam’s agenda for this year.

Storage

Veeam adds new free standalone agent for Linux

October 28, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam adds new free standalone agent for Linux
The latest addition to Veeam’s free offerings for its community is aimed mainly at Linux servers running in the cloud, but also supports physical Linux servers, and will offer partners ways to monetize it, though some may be down the road.

Cloud

Becoming a partner of the future

October 27, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Becoming a partner of the future
The head of IDC’s channels and alliances research team told Veeam’s channel partners what changes are already underway as the industry shifts from server-client to cloud platforms, and what they need to do to keep up and prosper.

Cloud

nGenx adds native cloud functionality to nFinity Drive Sync and Share solution

October 27, 2015 Mark Cox 1
Native cloud functionality provides an easier user experience customers are demanding in nGenx’s core sub-100 seat market, and helps it with larger customers as well.

Storage

Veeam unveils Managed Backup Portal to help drive partner cloud business

October 27, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam unveils Managed Backup Portal to help drive partner cloud business
Veeam is emphasizing that partners not in the cloud need to develop a cloud option for their customers, and opened their VeeamON event by announcing a simple-to-use portal to help partners develop a service provider practice.

Channel Programs

Data Dynamics scales up channel investment in revamp of partner program

October 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Data Dynamics scales up channel investment in revamp of partner program
While the company’s StorageX storage management platform is a mature product, Data Dynamics itself is a three year old startup, and is just now completing building out the channel program it wants.

Channel Programs

Dell channel team celebrates being at Dell World adult table with new announcements

October 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell channel team celebrates being at Dell World adult table with new announcements
Only a few parts of what’s coming to the channel from Dell was announced at Dell World, but broad sneak peeks were offered about several changes that will roll out at some point in the next fiscal year.

Storage

Dell beefs up its top of the line SC enterprise arrays

October 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell beefs up its top of the line SC enterprise arrays
AUSTIN — High-end enterprise arrays from EMC may be on the way, but the highest-end storage arrays in today’s Dell inventory received a major boost this at Dell World. The Dell Storage SC9000, which replaces
Big Data

Dell introduces first purpose-built Internet of Things gateway

October 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell introduces first purpose-built Internet of Things gateway
Dell also announced its Statistica data analytics package has been expanded to include middleware on gateways, and announced a contest for IoT solutions built on Dell gateways, which will have 16 winners, and runs until March 31, 2016.

Storage

SolidFire adds new Dell-VMware reference architecture for virtual infrastructure

October 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on SolidFire adds new Dell-VMware reference architecture for virtual infrastructure
The fourth in SolidFire’s series of Agile Infrastructure architectures, this one facilitates the design and deployment of dynamic virtual infrastructure to deliver secure multi-tenancy.