Year: 2018

Artificial Intelligence

Veritas partners with Pure Storage on joint solution around Pure’s data hub architecture

October 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas partners with Pure Storage on joint solution around Pure’s data hub architecture
The joint solution is targeted at larger customers, and will initially go to market through a select number of the two companies’ joint channel partners, before having its availability broadened out subsequently.

Hardware

Plantronics broadens headset use cases with three new series

October 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Plantronics broadens headset use cases with three new series
The newly announced ones are the Voyager 4200 UC, aimed at the ‘corridor warrior,’ and the Savi 8200, which extends the range of the Plantronics line that supports deskphones, mobile phones and PCs. They also recently announced the Elara 60 series, which is a mobile phone station.

Networking

HPE unveils new SMB hybrid cloud solutions around new ProLiant Gen 10 ML30 and DL20 servers

October 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE unveils new SMB hybrid cloud solutions around new ProLiant Gen 10 ML30 and DL20 servers
The new solutions include the last two HPE ProLiant servers to be refreshed with Gen 10 technology, as well as software developed in collaboration with Microsoft, which includes new HPE Rapid Setup Software that HPE says will slash partner install times by up to 70 per cent.

Backup

Arcserve unveils integrated cloud-native solution set with Business Continuity Cloud

October 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve unveils integrated cloud-native solution set with Business Continuity Cloud
Arcserve combines four of its solutions into a single cloud offering that on-prem customers cam still use, but will also give them hybrid and full cloud options.

Mobility

BlackBerry fleshes out Spark strategy with new partnerships and projects

October 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on BlackBerry fleshes out Spark strategy with new partnerships and projects
Following BlackBerry’s announcement of its Spark platform for what they call the Enterprise of Things in September, they used their October event in New York City to highlight new strategic relationships and applications that have already developed from Spark.

Partnerships

New DDN collaboration with NVIDIA brings turnkey AI solution to commercial market

October 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New DDN collaboration with NVIDIA brings turnkey AI solution to commercial market
NVIDIA’s strong channel focus ensures that this joint offering with DDN will be completely channel-centric, although the number of partners certified on the NVIDIA DGX-1 and with DDN is fairly limited at this point.

Channel Programs

Dell EMC extends Partner Preferred Program to 20,000 commercial accounts, unveils first Dell EMC-VMware co-skilled badges

October 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC extends Partner Preferred Program to 20,000 commercial accounts, unveils first Dell EMC-VMware co-skilled badges
Dell EMC’s quarterly Partner Broadcast was mainly about recounting their many trumps in the first half of the year, but there was some new news here which will interest their channel partners.

Big Data

Splunk creates ‘better together’ security story with expanded suite of security offerings

October 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk creates ‘better together’ security story with expanded suite of security offerings
Splunk adds Phantom’s remediation capabilities to complete their end-to-end security story, while announcing new versions of their SIEM and User BBehavior Analytics software.

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.