Month: May 2018

Networking

SonicWall looks to double down on growth pace after achieving full separation from Quest

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SonicWall looks to double down on growth pace after achieving full separation from Quest
While the financial and organizational linkages to Quest since it and SonicWall were spun together out of Dell in November 2016 were not at the level of a distraction, the removal of their final elements will benefit the company going forward.

Cloud

Pivot3 fills out HCI cloud strategy for partners by adding new capabilities, plus Azure and Google support

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 fills out HCI cloud strategy for partners by adding new capabilities, plus Azure and Google support
Pivot3 is stressing that while other HCI vendors have intelligent hybrid cloud strategies, they have one that is in production today.

Security

FireEye looks to further expansion in Canada with new channel solutions, consumption models

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on FireEye looks to further expansion in Canada with new channel solutions, consumption models
FireEye sells almost entirely through the channel, but has recently doubled down on channel enablement with a series of enablement initiatives that cover product, pricing models, and partner compensation.

Backup

Hitachi Vantara fills out end-to-end copy management solution with HDID 6.5

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara fills out end-to-end copy management solution with HDID 6.5
Hitachi Data Instance Director, which had been around Hitachi Data Services since 2008, gets an updating from integration with Hitachi Content Platform and analytics technologies which came in the formation of Hitachi Vantara.

Backup

Panzura partners with Veeam and achieves Veeam Ready certification

May 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Panzura partners with Veeam and achieves Veeam Ready certification
Panzura’s hybrid cloud NAS gains an additional use case with the certification, which will enable joint Veeam and Panzura solutions for cloud-native VM backup and DR in any public or private cloud.

Security

12 months on, what are the lessons learned from WannaCryptor?

May 18, 2018 Guest Poster Comments Off on 12 months on, what are the lessons learned from WannaCryptor?
A year after WannaCryptor became one of the most publicized attacks ever, what have we learned from this massive ransomware incident? ESET takes a look.

Backup

Channel consistency rather than change takeaway message from VeeamON 2018

May 18, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Channel consistency rather than change takeaway message from VeeamON 2018
The overall Veeam message at this year’s VeeamON event was change, with their hyper-availability vision, but for their channel partners, the messaging revolved around consistency of programs and assured consistency of support.

Backup

New product announcements at VeeamON secondary to new vision statement

May 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New product announcements at VeeamON secondary to new vision statement
The major announcement was Veam DataLabs, which is an upgraded version of the old Veeam Virtual Labs repositioned to serve broader use cases. In that sense, this product announcement also fits into the articulation of the broader vision which is what this year’s VeeamON was all about.

Backup

Veeam CEO says aggressive strategic partnering strategy central to recent – and future – growth

May 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam CEO says aggressive strategic partnering strategy central to recent – and future – growth
Veeam CEO Peter McKay credited Veeam’s expansion of their strategic relationships as critical to their success in 2017, and indicated they plan significant further expansion here going forward.

Backup

Veeam cloud company N2WS expands AWS solution support with Cloud Protection Manager 2.3 release

May 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam cloud company N2WS expands AWS solution support with Cloud Protection Manager 2.3 release
N2WS makes a sexy announcement expanding NoSQL support around Amazon DynamoDB, a solid announcement expanding support for Amazon Aurora databases, and a RESTful API announcement that will be of particular interest to channel partners.