Month: September 2018

Data Centre

Hitachi Vantara adds agility to data centre portfolio with hyperconverged, converged portfolio upgrades

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox 1
The HCI part of the portfolio introduces the first NVMe offering, while new support on the CI side was announced that will support very large deployments, and a refresh of the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor’s management and orchestration software was announced.

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Cloud

New Edge sync file services highlight broad Hitachi Content Platform upgrades

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Edge sync file services highlight broad Hitachi Content Platform upgrades
Hitachi Content Platform, which is fundamental to Hitachi Vantara’s second step in their Stairway to Value by enriching data and providing compliance safeguards, gets some important integration upgrades, but the showier part of this announcement is around the sync variant, HCP Anywhere, which now has an Edge capability that broadens its use case into both IoT and larger ROBO environments.

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Data Centre

Hitachi Vantara expands cloud services with Smart Data Center enhancements

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara expands cloud services with Smart Data Center enhancements
The upgrades to Smart Data Center follow up a new solution for modern policing, Hitachi Digital Evidence Management.

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Internet of Things

Hitachi Vantara adds new microservices capabilities with Lumada Maintenance Insights solutions

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara adds new microservices capabilities with Lumada Maintenance Insights solutions
These new microservices around the Lumada platform are designed to provide maintenance recommendations for industries like transportation, manufacturing and energy, which can be devastated by surprise breakdowns.

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Security

100 days of GDPR

September 27, 2018 ESET Guest Blog Comments Off on 100 days of GDPR
ESET offers a look at what lessons the world has learned over the first three-plus months under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.

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Channel Programs

StorageCraft removes divisions between partner business models in new channel program

September 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft removes divisions between partner business models in new channel program
In addition to moving VARs and MSP sales into the same pool, the new StorageCraft partner program now brings all the company’s products into a single program, including brand new and acquired ones.

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Channel Programs

Hitachi Vantara channel partners climbing the Stairway to Value

September 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara channel partners climbing the Stairway to Value
With a year in the books since the launch of Hitachi Vantara, and five months into a brand new partner program, the company looks at the evolution of the channel changes that accompanied its own reinvention of itself, and what more remains to be done.

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Cloud

Hitachi Vantara enhances Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Container Platform with one-click Kubernetes capabilities

September 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara enhances Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Container Platform with one-click Kubernetes capabilities
Hitachi Vantara announces enhancements to their cloud vision, with new capabilities around Kubernetes in a multi-cloud environment through their HEC Container Platform.

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Internet of Things

Hitachi emphasizes unique vision, capabilities around data-driven innovation to customers at NEXT event

September 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi emphasizes unique vision, capabilities around data-driven innovation to customers at NEXT event
Hitachi kicked off their NEXT customer event with the CEOs of Hitachi and Hitachi Vantara outlining the company’s vision, and the ability specifically of the year-old Hitachi Vantara to deliver on it.

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Backup

Cohesity announces new Microsoft integrations at Ignite event

September 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity announces new Microsoft integrations at Ignite event
Cohesity says a new integration with Office 365 Exchange Online, support for the new Azure Data Box, and new failover and failback capabilities for Azure DR should make it easier to sell joint Azure-Cohesity solutions, which have shown strong recent momentum.

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Cloud

Riverbed announces new SteelConnect and SteelFusion integrations with Microsoft at Ignite

September 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed announces new SteelConnect and SteelFusion integrations with Microsoft at Ignite
Riverbed adds support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, and their newly announced Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN.

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Cloud

CloudJumper targets smaller end users with Single Server Version of Cloud Workspace Management Suite for MSPs

September 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on CloudJumper targets smaller end users with Single Server Version of Cloud Workspace Management Suite for MSPs
WaaS provider CloudJumper makes single-tenanted deployments feasible for MSPs and customers in the 10-15 seat range – down from about 100 seats before.

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Unified Communications

Vancouver UCC vendor CounterPath adds new Bria Teams collaboration service

September 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Vancouver UCC vendor CounterPath adds new Bria Teams collaboration service
CounterPath has added a VAR channel in the last couple years, although the new service will initially launch only through service provider and retail channels, in case any issues need to be worked out.

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No Picture
Podcasts

Tech Data brings Maverick AV business to Canada [Podcast]

September 24, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Tech Data brings Maverick AV business to Canada [Podcast]
Tech Data is bringing its Maverick audio visual (AV) business to Canada. Global Maverick boss John Sidwick and Tech Data Canada leader Ed Galasso join the podcast to discuss the business, the opportunity in Canada, and much more.

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Cloud

Microsoft Ignite Preview: Security, AI and the Edge

September 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Microsoft Ignite Preview: Security, AI and the Edge
Microsoft is making literally dozens of announcements at the event, with Microsoft Authenticator, which the company says will end the era of passwords, and a new Microsoft Search at the top of all 365 apps likely to catch the most headlines.

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Cloud

Colo Cologix gears up to expand already significant Canadian presence

September 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Colo Cologix gears up to expand already significant Canadian presence
Cologix is based in the U.S. but has always done a disproportionately large part of their colo business in Canada. They are deepening their Canadian investments further, and looking to add more channel strength.

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Networking

Palo Alto Networks adds massive firewall scalability to Panorama with Interconnect plugin

September 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks adds massive firewall scalability to Panorama with Interconnect plugin
Panorama network security management can now handle tens of thousands of firewalls from a single server, up from 1000 per server before.

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Channel Programs

Square announces first formal program for channel partners

September 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Square announces first formal program for channel partners
Square has built a big business around providing support to microsellers who were too small to interest credit card companies, or who found their services too expensive. While this market is still their core, they have moved upmarket as well, with larger sellers, assisted by strategic partnerships with companies like SAP. The new channel program is designed to support partners in this upmarket transition.

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Networking

Linksys looks to disrupt small business networking with Linksys Cloud Manager hosted Wi-Fi management platform

September 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Linksys looks to disrupt small business networking with Linksys Cloud Manager hosted Wi-Fi management platform
Linksys believes that the Linksys Cloud Manager, aimed at the sub-100 market, will be highly disruptive in the small business space. The cloud launch is also being accompanied by a channel push in Canada, which will see product authorized for the first time.

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Software

French ITIM vendor Centreon launches North American operation with Toronto office and 100 per cent channel strategy

September 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on French ITIM vendor Centreon launches North American operation with Toronto office and 100 per cent channel strategy
Centreon will be selling completely through channel partners in North America, seeing this as a key way to build up their presence in a crowded ITIM space filled with legacy vendors they believe can be toppled.

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