Month: June 2017

Partnerships

HPE adding to end-to-end solutions portfolio with HPE Complete program

June 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE adding to end-to-end solutions portfolio with HPE Complete program
HPE created its program to validate other vendor solutions and sell them through HPE late last year, and the program has exceeded expectations so far.

Storage

Integrating Nimble: Bringing its technology, solutions and culture into HPE

June 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Integrating Nimble: Bringing its technology, solutions and culture into HPE
Bringing Nimble into the HPE fold raises many questions about how the integration will work. HPE Nimble gives an update on what has happened so far, and where it’s headed.

Backup

Zerto expands HPE relationship to add full availability of Zerto replication solution

June 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zerto expands HPE relationship to add full availability of Zerto replication solution
Zerto has joined the HPE Complete program, making Zerto Virtual Replication an HPE part number that can be ordered directly from HPE for any HPE platform.

Storage

TCO enhancements highlight upgrades to Hitachi Content Platform portfolio

June 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on TCO enhancements highlight upgrades to Hitachi Content Platform portfolio
The big improvements are to software and hardware capabilities on the core Hitachi Content Platform and to the Hitachi Data Ingestor Platform.

Cloud

HPE unveils Project New Stack as top end of expanded HPE composable strategy

June 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE unveils Project New Stack as top end of expanded HPE composable strategy
HPE formally announces its project to extend HPE Synergy to the full hybrid IT environment, which is still known by its internal code name, and which is still in the tech preview stage, but should reach beta in the fall. The company hopes it will be ready to sell by December.

Distribution

Synnex: Westcon buy is distie deal with little overlap

June 8, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Synnex: Westcon buy is distie deal with little overlap
Synnex purchases Westcon Comstor’s North American business, gets access to new key vendors, including Cisco.

Partnerships

Hedvig’s distributed storage platform now available through HPE Complete program

June 8, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hedvig’s distributed storage platform now available through HPE Complete program
The Hedvig software-defined technology collapses disparate tiers of storage and unifies block, file, and object interfaces in a single platform, providing HPE and its partners with a capability not otherwise available to them through HPE.

Data Centre

HPE CEO Whitman says new HPE creating innovation on multiple levels

June 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE CEO Whitman says new HPE creating innovation on multiple levels
The HPE CEO says the company has been fundamentally transformed in her tenure, not just by selling off non-core areas and increasing focus, but by making more changes in sales and channel organization and corporate culture.

Partnerships

Scale-out vendor Qumulo goes on offense with HPE partnership

June 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale-out vendor Qumulo goes on offense with HPE partnership
Qumulo’s software on HPE servers gives HPE a strong distributed file system offering to compete against Isilon and NetApp.

Storage

Coho Data converged solution with HPE and Arista publicly launches

June 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Coho Data converged solution with HPE and Arista publicly launches
Coho Data, which has recently reworked itself into a software-defined vendor, has just launched a converged turnkey solution through the HPE Complete program.