Month: June 2020

Artificial Intelligence

Dell unveils new Dell EMC Ready solutions to spur AI in VMware environments

June 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell unveils new Dell EMC Ready solutions to spur AI in VMware environments
The channel will be the primary seller of these new solutions, which leverage the Bitfusion technology VMware acquired last year, and which has now been incorporated into vSphere.

Channel Programs

RingCentral targets SMB customers with new IGNITE! channel program

June 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on RingCentral targets SMB customers with new IGNITE! channel program
IGNITE!, which is really a sub-program of RingCentral’s Channel Harmony program, is aimed at organizations with 400 employees and under, and features a different sales process tailored for a shorter sales cycle, and over which the partner has full control.

Backup

Clumio adds free operational snapshots, RDS support to AWS data protection

June 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Clumio adds free operational snapshots, RDS support to AWS data protection
Clumio is offering free support for operational recovery, which is typically used in DevTest environments, to highlight that it fits in to what they say is a more holistic data protection strategy than competitors.

Cloud

Datadobi adds support for S3-to-S3 object migrations in DobiMigrate 5.9

June 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datadobi adds support for S3-to-S3 object migrations in DobiMigrate 5.9
Datadobi sees the big market need for this not for moving S3 data from the cloud back to on-prem, but to provide more flexibility in choosing S3 clouds, in the same way that Datadobi has enabled NAS migrations between different vendors.