Tegile says its new scale-out platform, with flash prices starting at about 50 cents/GB, will make on-prem flash cheaper than the public cloud and thus give channel partners a powerful weapon.
eXalt has made B2B rules engines for IT companies for years, but has now revamped their offering for the digital era to adjust to modern customer preferences and buying patterns.
Nutanix makes its first foray into acquiring other people’s technology with a pair of deals designed to enhance their storage-class memory systems and improve their cloud automation and management capabilities.
HP Sure View is available as an option on two HP commercial models, HP EliteBook 1040 and HP EliteBook 840.
Exablox unveils the OneBlox 5210, a scale-out low-cost flash product with object storage under the hood, that lists for $29,000 diskless, with 4 TB SSDs a further $2,000 each.
Tyler Snetselaar has been named Director of Strategic Alliances and Channel Partnerships, as SmartFile looks to expand its channel presence, especially among systems integrators serving the enterprise.
Sammy Kinlaw reviews Lenovo’s recently concluded quarter in North America and indicates their initiatives going forward, including a new distribution agreement for the Motorola products.
Caringo has developed a patent-pending process that eliminates the need for a gateway by connecting the NFS server directly to the Object Storage. This significantly cuts costs and improves efficiency, opening up new use cases that Caringo believes will mainstream object storage.
This release becomes the first AppSense product to benefit from the LANDESK merger, as it adds patch management from Shavlik Protect, which is an independent business unit within LANDESK.
About five per cent of the company’s partner business is in Canada today, but they have a push panned in the Canadian market in 2017.
The Memory1 hardware was announced last year, but now, as it hits production release, it is accompanied by Diablo Memory Expansion (DMX) software.
The born-in-the-cloud distributor’s new intiatives include a new endpoint solution with Symantec, as that vendor enhances its cloud portfolio. The company also has a unique dual platform strategy to help redefine cloud distribution.
The interesting thing here is that Nutanix has expanded the Cisco support on its own, without Cisco being involved in the validation process. That supports the two companies’ earlier stated position that no partnership where Nutanix would be sold on UCS was in the works. This move may, however, indicate that Nutanix is trying to create momentum towards it.
Pulseway, whose RMM solution is specifically designed to work with mobile devices, has responded to customer feedback with Pulseway MSP, a version of their product designed specifically for MSPs. Major additions include white labelling capability and enhanced automation.
Agiloft sold direct until a couple of years ago, but has been expanding its channel, and is looking to its new partner program to attract some quality partners, including ones in Canada, where they presently have none.
HPE’s strategy with its new offerings is to offer strong featured hybrid-flash and software-defined offerings to the entry level at a sub-$10k price where they haven’t played before.
ZeroStack has sold its software has to date on SuperMicro white box hardware, but requests from both partners and customers have led ZeroStack to broaden it out to Dell and HPE, with select other vendors likely on the way.
The AF1000 takes Nimble into the sub-$40k range for an all-flash array, which certainly isn’t the cheapest available on the market, but does offer a broad range of services and analytics.
Security-as-a-service provider My Digital Shield recently launched an assurance program to cover its small business customers in the event of a breach, with a major mobility initiative likely the next to roll out.
SimpleWan, which makes an offering that combines several different security and network monitoring functions, has found that the increasingly converged market warrants their development of a new channel to address customer purchasing habits.
