Articles by Mark Cox

Networking

Lenovo adds open source networking portfolio through new partnership with Cumulus Networks

December 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo adds open source networking portfolio through new partnership with Cumulus Networks
Lenovo is the last major infrastructure vendor to join the roster of Cumulus partners. They will offer three ThinkSystem RackSwitch models with support for Cumulus Linux out of the gate, with more coming in 2019.

Networking

Kemp strengthens application delivery and load balancing interconnect with improved analytics, platform support

December 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kemp strengthens application delivery and load balancing interconnect with improved analytics, platform support
Kemp makes enhancements that leverage the load balancer’s position to provide much deeper analytics about applications, including the ability to assess application health and pre-emptively remediate problems.

Channel Communities

Longtime GTDC CEO Tim Curran to retire at end of the year

December 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Longtime GTDC CEO Tim Curran to retire at end of the year
Curran will be replaced on an interim basis by Kavita May, the GTDC’s senior vice president of planning and operations.

Channel Programs

Aparavi refines go-to-market and channel strategies

December 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Aparavi refines go-to-market and channel strategies
Aparavi is pushing hard into the MSP space with their SaaS platform, which they are positioning around data management, rather than purely as intelligent archiving.

Data Centre

Pivot3 bakes policy-based data-at-rest encryption into its HCI intelligence engine

December 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 bakes policy-based data-at-rest encryption into its HCI intelligence engine
Pivot3 enhances its security capabilities to provide the same native policy-based management for data at-rest that it has already been providing for performance and for data protection.

Big Data

Accelerite introduces no-code, serverless platform for end-to-end AWS analytics in ShareInsights 3.0 software

December 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Accelerite introduces no-code, serverless platform for end-to-end AWS analytics in ShareInsights 3.0 software
ShareInsights 3.0 is the first cloud-native version of the platform, which opens up AWS analytics to more users by abstracting the entire AWS analytics stack.

Cloud

Elastifile deepens Google partnership with first fully managed scale-out file storage service for GCP

December 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Elastifile deepens Google partnership with first fully managed scale-out file storage service for GCP
The new managed service, operated by Elastifile, but with a Google UI and Google billing of the customer, is the product of a deep collaboration between the two companies.

Cloud

Nutanix, Intel announce first formal go-to-market partnership around Intel Data Center Block hardware platforms

December 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix, Intel announce first formal go-to-market partnership around Intel Data Center Block hardware platforms
Nutanix broadens the server platforms on which its software is available with a new deal with Intel, which will see authorized Nutanix partners be able to brand and personalize the Intel server block platforms.

Channel Programs

Nutanix enhances Channel Charter with better front-end margins, more support for distributors and new support for GSIs.

December 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix enhances Channel Charter with better front-end margins, more support for distributors and new support for GSIs.
Nutanix implemented its new partner program, which emphasizes partner investments in Nutanix over revenues this summer, and now based on feedback is making their first set of tweaks.

Cloud

SAP lays out cloud vision for customers and partners of all sizes

December 10, 2018 Mark Cox 2
SAP believes it can provide a differentiated value in the cloud compared to other vendors, and with IDC saying that partners who create and sell their own software in the Cloud will projected by 24 per cent over the next five years, SAP is focusing on that as an area of opportunity.