The new Dell-VMware converged infrastructure solution is aimed at the mid-market, while the offering with Cumulus is targeted more at very large, Linux-savvy organizations.
The major focus of the new releases is removing significant barriers to adoption, notably greatly reducing storage costs, and adding FIPS certification.
Ingram Micro Cloud has also launched a new Cloud Elevate program, in which Ingram partners who register as a partner in Ingram’s Cloud Marketplace by September 30th will receive free Ingram Micro-hosted solutions with $100 credit a month.
ASG has seen a significant recent ramp up in the amount of business done through its channel, and expects much more to come.
The long-time maker of RAID controllers and subsystems embarks on its first venture in the cloud, and its first software application venture, with plans to expand it into a hybrid cloud offering.
While ThreatTrack has a channel of SMB-focused VIPRE resellers, the new channel chief’s task is to build an enterprise-focused channel for ThreatSecure, and to do that, he is looking to distribution.
Nutanix believes the ability to offer public cloud capacity, together with a more powerful appliance, will make them the go-to vendor for any enterprise converged infrastructure project.
Xangati, which makes intelligent cloud and workload performance management solutions for virtualized environments, introduces Xangati Product Suite XSR12.
SiSense has a short sales cycle for BI, and is offering aggressive margins, including the same margins on renewals.
Ingram Micro has the exclusive rights to distribute Invixium’s biometric fingerprint access control products in Canada, and they are working on taking them global as well.
Zetta.net, which has a strong MSP business, can now make full server image backups directly to the cloud, without requiring an appliance or a staging drive.
Lenovo has also just relaunched its New Customer Bonus program, giving the option of a front-end as well as a back-end rebate.
The enterprise SSD space is a very congested one, but BiTMICRO believes that it can differentiate itself from this crowded field because while they focus on IOPS, BiTMICRO focuses on capacity.
ShoreTel says the new virtualized router will let their VARs be more aggressive in small 5-15 unit mobile deployments, because eliminating the router cost for a 10 unit deployment cuts the initial investment in getting 10 users live by two thirds.
Dell has announced refreshed – and rebranded – mainstream and performance tower and rack workstations
Unlike traditional WAN optimization solutions, Unity’s ability to keep Cloud SaaS and IaaS traffic on the same fabric lets it intelligently route traffic to the public cloud over a secure, optimal path.
KidoZen, a very young startup with a mobile app platform which facilitates the development of enterprise mobility solutions, is seeing customer acceptance as it goes against well-known brands like IBM and SAP.
The new P500, P700 and P 900 workstations, like the entry-level P300 introduced in the spring, are from the bottom-up redesigns of the old products they replaced.
These solutions are sold only through solution providers, not retail, and are expected to appeal to very large partners like CDW, and very small partners and consultants who work the SOHO market.
The Dell Backup & Disaster Recovery Suite is a data protection bundle that consolidates the company’s three data protection offerings – AppAssure, NetVault Backup and VRanger.
