Month: October 2018

Big Data

SwiftStack expands market presence with new partnership with Splunk around Splunk SmartStore

October 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SwiftStack expands market presence with new partnership with Splunk around Splunk SmartStore
SwiftStack sees their new partnership with Spunk around the new SmartStore feature within the Splunk Enterprise platform as offering enormous new opportunities for SwiftStack, in making them attractive to customers who would never have considered them before.

Channel Programs

Robotic Process Automation vendor UiPath ups commitment to partners with two new partner-focused initiatives

October 3, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Robotic Process Automation vendor UiPath ups commitment to partners with two new partner-focused initiatives
UiPath, a red-hot player in the robotic process automation space, is ramping up their channel business to accelerate the momentum that has taken them from $1 million to $100M in annual recurring revenue in less than 21 months, and are also announcing a new channel program.

Big Data

Splunk creates full Internet of Things offering with Splunk Industrial IoT

October 3, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk creates full Internet of Things offering with Splunk Industrial IoT
Splunk announced its first full Internet of Things offering, with a bundle that combines Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence, introduced earlier this year, with the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, to provide a full IoT solution with both predictive analysis and customization capability.

Big Data

Selling Splunk: Keeping Splunk’s sales strategy up to date with Splunk Next’s technology advances

October 3, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Selling Splunk: Keeping Splunk’s sales strategy up to date with Splunk Next’s technology advances
Splunk introduced six new offerings at their .conf18 user conference, which are entering beta, and which are designed to open Splunk to large numbers of new customers. That market expansion will create new opportunities for the right partners.

Artificial Intelligence

Splunk CEO Merritt: Splunk opportunities riding the crest of a technology explosion

October 3, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk CEO Merritt: Splunk opportunities riding the crest of a technology explosion
Doug Merritt, Splunk’s President and CEO, kicked off the Splunk .conf18 event in Orlando by emphasizing the congruence between the company’s greatest wave of innovation ever, and the time in the market when the pace of change and the ability to tap into the monstrous mess that is contemporary data are at their peak of importance.

Big Data

New OEM and system integrator tracks highlight channel announcements at Spunk .conf

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New OEM and system integrator tracks highlight channel announcements at Spunk .conf
The new tracks – the last of those likely for specific types of partners – were announced at this event, and will go live at next year’s Global Partner Summit. Other channel changes include some enhancements to the certification process.

Storage

Retuned Violin rolls out first of new products aimed at their target extreme performance market

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Retuned Violin rolls out first of new products aimed at their target extreme performance market
Violin System introduces its first new product since it resurrected from bankruptcy, a NVMe fabric, ultra-low latency offering aimed at the extreme performance market, which is now the focus of Violin’s efforts.

Big Data

Splunk enhances analytics scalability, allows separate scaling of compute and storage and enables LOB users in new platform release

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk enhances analytics scalability, allows separate scaling of compute and storage and enables LOB users in new platform release
Splunk’s announcements at the outset of their Spunk .conf18 event include significant new updates of their Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud platforms

Big Data

Splunk adds specific KPI predictive analytics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.0

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk adds specific KPI predictive analytics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.0
The general ramp up of the ITSI predictive analytics solution also includes new integrations with VictorOps and Splunk App for Infrastructure.

Backup

Cohesity adds service provider component to expanded partner program with significantly more resources

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity adds service provider component to expanded partner program with significantly more resources
Cohesity has doubled the amount of dollars allocated to their partner program, with new perks like rebates for sales to very large customers and formalized and expanded MDF. They have also established a model for service providers within the program, which provides mechanisms like consumption-based pricing suited to this business model.