Articles by Mark Cox

Storage

StorONE partners with Dell on S1-as-a-Service

July 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorONE partners with Dell on S1-as-a-Service
The new offering, combining StorONE software on Dell servers, costs $999 a month, with everything included, for a 20 TB all-flash array with up to 150,000 IOPS, and includes data protection as well.

Backup

Asigra partners with Zadara to offer MSPs OPEX backup appliance

July 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra partners with Zadara to offer MSPs OPEX backup appliance
Asigra believes the new offering will appeal to MSPs looking to get away from brokerage and get more control over their customers, without having to invest in a data centre.

Storage

In-Memory compute vendor Formulus Black rethinks market strategy with Forsa 3.0 release

July 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on In-Memory compute vendor Formulus Black rethinks market strategy with Forsa 3.0 release
Formulus Black, which lets memory be used as high-performance media, now will run on Intel Optane as well as DRAM, and will now support CentOS as well as Ubuntu, with RHEL support coming later this year.

Storage

Western Digital increases ActiveScale object storage performance, density and services

July 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Western Digital increases ActiveScale object storage performance, density and services
The performance increase is in the range of 3x, while the new Data Pipeline Services streamlines data processing.

Networking

Martello, Paessler target  larger enterprises with new partnership

July 26, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Martello, Paessler target  larger enterprises with new partnership
The new relationship will see Martello’s Savision single pane of glass management software bundled with Paessler’s PRTG Network Monitor solution.

Security

SonicWall CEO Conner surveys changing threat landscape from Mid-Year Threat Report

July 26, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on SonicWall CEO Conner surveys changing threat landscape from Mid-Year Threat Report
Conner emphasized that SonicWall’s layered platform strategy provides the most effective protection for customers from the SMB to the enterprise.

Distribution

D&H brings their professional and managed services programs to Canada

July 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on D&H brings their professional and managed services programs to Canada
D&H services offered in Canada for partners to white-label have been designed for the Canadian market, using Canadian providers for delivery.

Artificial Intelligence

Dell ready for new Roaring Twenties in Canada

July 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell ready for new Roaring Twenties in Canada
Mike Sharun and Paul Katigbak, who run Dell EMC’s enterprise and commercial businesses in Canada respectively, discuss Dell Technologies’ digital transformation strategy in Canada.

Backup

StorageCraft targets low end of SMB with OneXafe Solo plug-and-play appliance

July 24, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft targets low end of SMB with OneXafe Solo plug-and-play appliance
While the original OneXafe 4000 is a midmarket and small enterprise product, the Solo 300 is an entry level offering aimed at SMBs, and offering an MSP play.

Security

Proofpoint introduces targeted URL isolation solutions for high-risk targets

July 24, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Proofpoint introduces targeted URL isolation solutions for high-risk targets
Proofpoint also announces new customizable training, which like the new isolation solutions, is aimed squarely at an organization’s most attacked people.