Year: 2020

Networking

Dell Technologies brings first commercial distribution of SONiC to market

May 15, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies brings first commercial distribution of SONiC to market
Enterprise SONiC Distribution by Dell Technologies adds enterprise features and support to the SONiC open source project, which Microsoft has driven around Azure, and which has been focused on hyperscaler needs.

Distribution

“We’re up to the challenge” – Ingram Canada CFO on flexibility in financing

May 14, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on “We’re up to the challenge” – Ingram Canada CFO on flexibility in financing
Ingram Micro Canada chief financial officer Kelly Carter discusses the distributor’s new financing options for the channel and lays out Ingram’s overall financing strategy in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.

No Picture
Cloud

Volterra introduces VoltShare for secure password-free collaboration

May 14, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Volterra introduces VoltShare for secure password-free collaboration
Volterra’s platform provides distributed cloud services for the enterprise, but with VoltShare they are leveraging its capabilities to enhance existing collaboration tools with security that requires no passwords or public keys. It’s being sold on a freemium model with a paid enterprise version, and is particularly aimed at the Work From Home market.

Hyper-converged

Scale Computing introduces high performance, all-NVME appliance for performance intensive use cases

May 14, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing introduces high performance, all-NVME appliance for performance intensive use cases
Edge-focused Scale isn’t charging into the data centre market here, but rather responding to customer requests for an offering that can handle use cases like high density VDI deployments.

Managed Services

Liongard CEO Joe Alapat lays out plans as company closes B funding round

May 14, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Liongard CEO Joe Alapat lays out plans as company closes B funding round
Liongard has added $17 million in new funds, bringing them to $23 million in the last three years, with much of the investment going into engineering and roadmap plans.

Security

Digital transformation could be accelerated by COVID‑19

May 13, 2020 ESET Guest Blog Comments Off on Digital transformation could be accelerated by COVID‑19
The pandemic has highlighted the need for businesses to act with alacrity and prepare for the long haul – and to do so with cybersecurity in mind, writes ESET’s Tony Anscombe

Cloud

Redis Labs urges users to Rediscover Redis as a database at their virtualized conference

May 13, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Redis Labs urges users to Rediscover Redis as a database at their virtualized conference
The big news at the event was a new partnership with Microsoft to add two new services around Enterprise tiers to Azure Cache for Redis, but the overarching message was users who use Redis for caching should consider it for databases too.

Backup

Pax8 expands StorageCraft relationship with ShadowXafe and OneXafe Solo

May 13, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pax8 expands StorageCraft relationship with ShadowXafe and OneXafe Solo
Smallvbusiness-focused OneXafe Solo just came to General Availability, while ShadowXafe came to market in 2018, and its absence from Pax8’s line card until now has a story behind it.

Networking

Security is THE conversation: Cisco’s security response to COVID-19

May 12, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Security is THE conversation: Cisco’s security response to COVID-19
Cisco Canada partner leader Mark Collins talks about how security demand is changing as customers become more distributed than ever, and how partners can prioritize security in this edition of the podcast.

Backup

Rubrik emphasizes Data-Forward Enterprise theme at FORWARD Digital Summit

May 11, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik emphasizes Data-Forward Enterprise theme at FORWARD Digital Summit
Rubrik’s first global customer event – virtualized by the pandemic – emphasized their vision for data management and how their applications fit into it, befitting the goal of a younger company to make itself and its value proposition better known.