Month: June 2017

Cloud

Toronto’s Breqwatr sees Pure Storage partnership as key in U.S. expansion

June 14, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Toronto’s Breqwatr sees Pure Storage partnership as key in U.S. expansion
Breqwatr, which makes an easy-to-deploy private cloud appliance, and sells through an all-channel model, now has an OEM deal with Pure which is significantly expanding their addressable market.

Internet of Things

Pure Storage leverages Internet of Things with new Pure1 META AI platform

June 14, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage leverages Internet of Things with new Pure1 META AI platform
The first product of this technology, designed to understand complex workload relationships with machine learning, is the Pure1 Workload Planner.

Virtualization

NComputing relaunches VERDE with VERDE VDI 8.1 release

June 14, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on NComputing relaunches VERDE with VERDE VDI 8.1 release
Enhancements include IBM Bluemix support, which significantly strengthens VERDE as an MSP offering.

Cloud

Do your customers love Office 365, but avoid the cloud?

June 13, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Do your customers love Office 365, but avoid the cloud?
A Softchoice survey finds that while customers accept Office 365 as a way of licensing software, many aren’t moving their infrastructure into the cloud.

Networking

Palo Alto unveils GlobalProtect cloud service for remote offices and mobile users

June 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto unveils GlobalProtect cloud service for remote offices and mobile users
The new cloud service is delivered through an infrastructure Palo Alto will manage and maintain, but it’s an offering partners can resell, not one that will compete with them.

Cloud

Palo Alto Networks announces ‘game-changing’ new cloud-based application framework

June 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks announces ‘game-changing’ new cloud-based application framework
The framework lets developers write new apps to the Palo Alto Next Gen security platform, and allows for these to be consumed as cloud-delivered security apps.

Storage

Pure Storage makes multiple object storage announcements around FlashBlade

June 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage makes multiple object storage announcements around FlashBlade
An upgrade to 75 blades in a single system provides 5x capacity and speed, a new 17TB blade was announced for mid-range deployments, and a new ultra-flash S3 object store was unveiled.

Storage

Purity//FA 5.0 software announcement highlights Pure Storage Accelerate event

June 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Purity//FA 5.0 software announcement highlights Pure Storage Accelerate event
Pure Storage makes the biggest software release in its history, with new features and enhancements designed to increase their credibility in the enterprise.

Neal Bradbury, Senior Director of Business Development, Intronis MSP Solutions by Barracuda
Podcasts

Talking data protection with Neal Bradbury [Podcast]

June 13, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Talking data protection with Neal Bradbury [Podcast]
Neal Bradbury of Intronis discusses data protection for MSPs in the post-WannaCry world in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.

Backup

Virtual data protection vendor Altaro launches MSP program

June 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Virtual data protection vendor Altaro launches MSP program
Altaro, which is focused largely on Hyper-V and the SMB market, has launched both a new MSP program and a free multi-tenanted console to manage it.