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Cloud
Data Centre

Accelerite acquisition of Convirture gives partners end-to-end management solution

Cloud

New Asigra appliance to hedge against coming flat zero backup prices

In a grim future of zero backup pricing, Asigra’s CEO told partners their future profitability – and survival – depends on their ability to build trust with the customer, and on their ability to sell additional services around it. An archiving capability, centred on Asigra’s new appliance, is a key part of this.

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Cloud
Cloud

New Silver Peak virtual network overlay aims to displace MPLS networks – gradually

Unity EdgeConnect, which builds on the Unity fabric Silver Peak announced last year, is a virtual network overlay which leverages broadband to connect users to applications, while also letting them retain their existing routers and firewalls and move to a broadband WAN at their own speed.

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Hardware
Hardware

Microsoft Surface Hub large-screen collaboration device available July 1

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Managed Services
Cloud
Storage

Dell expands Dell XC Series Nutanix offerings

Scheduled to roll out in Q3, the updates to the portfolio address specific use cases. They are: support for KVM, including Nutanix’s new KVM-based hypervisor; a storage-heavy Lite-Compute node; a new appliance that provides Nvidia GPU support; and a short-depth, 1U form factor appliance.

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Data Centre

Nutanix makes ‘biggest announcement ever’ with platform for simpler, cheaper virtualization

Acropolis combines Nutanix’s flagship Distributed Storage Fabric with their own hypervisor and a new app mobility fabric which will decouple apps from their hypervisor, let users use the Nutanix hypervisor, and massively cut their virtualization costs. Prism complements it with simple management. Acropolis and Prism make up the new Xtreme Computing Platform.

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Data Centre

Intel Security launches solution for east-west traffic in VMware datacentres

This solution, using the McAfee Network Security Platform, starts with market leader VMware, but will eventually cover the others in the space. And while this Intrusion Prevention solution is the first to be rolled out, the plan is to extend the platform to cover Intel Security’s other virtual infrastructure products.

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Sennheiser SD Office, a single-sided DECT wireless headset
Distribution
Channel Programs

Dell reports solid channel growth in Q1

Dell indicated good progress on their green fields discount initiative, overall commercial business, and partner education efforts. While the number of partners using Dell financing jumped considerably in Q1, the company wants more participation there. Plus, still no firm date on when Dell will team up with SYNNEX in Canada.

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Unified Communications
Managed Services
Managed Services

Waterloo’s Auvik Networks entering RMM market with MSP Edition

The Canadian cloud-based network management software provider has modified its software to produce a version for the MSP market that has some pluses it believes are missing from the market now. The plan is to sell it direct for a while to establish proof of concept while they work on building a proper channel program.

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Channel Programs