Month: March 2020

Backup

HYCU expands Protégé multi-cloud platform with HYCU for Azure

March 31, 2020 Mark Cox 1
HYCU, which started out with a purpose-built backup for Nutanix, continues to broaden its native support for other vendors, adding Azure support to the Google Cloud Platform support they announced last year.

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Storage

Datadobi adds ability to show chain of custody in data migrations in new release

March 31, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datadobi adds ability to show chain of custody in data migrations in new release
Datadobi’s new release adds the ability to document chain of custody for compliance and legal purposes to DobiMigrate Version 5.8, a differentiator that has been absent before, because it was hard.

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Cloud

Komprise rewrites data migration engine to ramp up cross-data centre capability

March 31, 2020 Mark Cox 1
Data migration is a secondary feature of Komprise, which primarily moves data for archiving, but its new Elastic Data Migration capability provides a highly parallelized capability that is ideal for WAN migrations, and should increase that use case.

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Storage

Diamanti ramps up Kubernetes HCI platform with Spektra 2.4 release

March 31, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Diamanti ramps up Kubernetes HCI platform with Spektra 2.4 release
Diamanti adds self-encrypting drives for security, asynchronous replication for availability, next generation I/O offload cards, and a new hardware offering with new Intel processors.

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Software

Rancher Labs puts support for over one million Kubernetes clusters on roadmap

March 31, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rancher Labs puts support for over one million Kubernetes clusters on roadmap
Today, with Rancher 2.4, the company is scaling up to go from managing a few dozen clusters in the very recent past, to 2000 today, and to a million clusters or more looking forward, as IoT edge use cases ramp up demand.

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Channel Programs

Onapsis emphasizes four pillars strategy in new partner program

March 30, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Onapsis emphasizes four pillars strategy in new partner program
Onapsis’ channel strategy has large integrators front and centre, but the company is actively involved in facilitating and creating relationships across the four partner pillars.

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Unified Communications

Poly adds new 3-in-1 Bluetooth enabled Voyager 4245 with Microsoft Teams certification

March 30, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Poly adds new 3-in-1 Bluetooth enabled Voyager 4245 with Microsoft Teams certification
Poly continues the overhaul of its headset portfolio that has been ongoing for the past several months with a new model, borrowing the same 3-in1 wearing option from the Savi 8245, and providing a Microsoft Teams option.

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Backup

Cobalt Iron strengthens IBM-related opportunities with Arrow distribution deal

March 27, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cobalt Iron strengthens IBM-related opportunities with Arrow distribution deal
Cobalt Iron has already had a strong partnership with IBM because of an integration between their backup solutions, and the Arrow relationship will extend this, including bringing IBM’s Spectum Protect into the ArrowSphere cloud.

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Distribution

Ingram Micro Canada focuses on flexibility with partner financing options

March 25, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Ingram Micro Canada focuses on flexibility with partner financing options
The distributor’s new Future Funds program lets customers buy solutions now, and decide in six months whether to purchase outright or finance.

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Security

Titus Illuminate 2020 integrates with new Titus Accelerator for Privacy solution

March 25, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Titus Illuminate 2020 integrates with new Titus Accelerator for Privacy solution
Titus’ integrating capabilities of their two newer product sets creates new synergies in their expanded market strategy, and is complemented by a deepening of their channel Go-to-Market model.

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Channel Programs

Aptum launches first hybrid cloud management service on heels of new channel program launch

March 24, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Aptum launches first hybrid cloud management service on heels of new channel program launch
Aptum, formerly Cogeco Peer 1 until a rebranding last year, revamped its Go-to-market strategy going forward and is executing on that amid the disruption caused by the Wuhan coronavirus.

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Backup

New integrations with Google Cloud, AWS Storage Gateway highlight Zerto 8.0

March 24, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on New integrations with Google Cloud, AWS Storage Gateway highlight Zerto 8.0
Zerto is also emphasizing that several enhancements around the public clouds and VMware will be of particular interest to MSP partners.

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Security

COVID‑19 and the shift to remote work

March 20, 2020 ESET Guest Blog Comments Off on COVID‑19 and the shift to remote work
As the pandemic forces many employees to work from home, can your organization stay productive – and safe?

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Channel Programs

Avanan gets proactive about creating MSP channel for email security suites

March 20, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avanan gets proactive about creating MSP channel for email security suites
The company has gotten more systematic about building out a channel, starting with MSPs, and has created a program for MSPs and MSSPs and hired Mike Lyons as global director of their MSP business.

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Hyper-converged

Nutanix scales up Nutanix Objects to support more Big Data workloads

March 19, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix scales up Nutanix Objects to support more Big Data workloads
Multi-cluster support is new in the 2.0 release, as is support for nodes with more capacity, with the result being stronger ability to support more Big Data applications.

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Storage

FalconStor reboots with industry’s first enterprise-class persistent data storage container

March 19, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on FalconStor reboots with industry’s first enterprise-class persistent data storage container
FalconStor’s new StorSafe offering leverages containerization with their VTL technology to produce an archiving solution aimed mainly at very long term retention.

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Security

Startup Axis Security looks to redefine private application access

March 17, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Startup Axis Security looks to redefine private application access
While the Axis Application Access Cloud is a long-term VPN replacement, it also lets users connect to apps without touching the network, making it ideal for managing partners and contractors.

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Managed Services

ConnectWise improves and adds to security controls throughout software development lifecycle

March 13, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on ConnectWise improves and adds to security controls throughout software development lifecycle
ConnectWise is making enhancements both to the software development lifecycle, and adding new vulnerability testing capability and security bulletins as well.

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Greg Onoprijenko, director of cloud at Ingram Micro Canada
Cloud

Ingram Micro Canada adds G Suite

March 13, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Ingram Micro Canada adds G Suite
Google expands its U.S. agreement with the distributor to Canada, putting “the last cloud titan” on Ingram Micro Canada’s cloud linecard.

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Backup

Rubrik names ServiceNow CMO Dan Rogers President to scale growth

March 12, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik names ServiceNow CMO Dan Rogers President to scale growth
Rogers sees strong parallels between ServiceNow and Rubrik in terms of their capability to expand successfully from a single product to a broad platform, and thinks the tactics ServiceNow used successfully to ramp up will port well to Rubrik.

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