Articles by Mark Cox

Backup

Cohesity adds service provider component to expanded partner program with significantly more resources

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity adds service provider component to expanded partner program with significantly more resources
Cohesity has doubled the amount of dollars allocated to their partner program, with new perks like rebates for sales to very large customers and formalized and expanded MDF. They have also established a model for service providers within the program, which provides mechanisms like consumption-based pricing suited to this business model.

Backup

Completely revamped next-gen StoreOnce highlights HPE data protection refresh

October 1, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Completely revamped next-gen StoreOnce highlights HPE data protection refresh
The new version of HPE’s StoreOnce hybrid backup appliance remakes pretty much everything, from new hardware, to a new software stack and GUI, to significant changes to the go-to-market.

Big Data

Data Quality vendor Naveego looks to Big Data with new platform release

October 1, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Data Quality vendor Naveego looks to Big Data with new platform release
Naveego has refocused their platform for tracking, logging and cleansing data to be able to handle Big Data volumes, to take advantage of what they see as a growing opportunity in this space.

Data Centre

Hitachi Vantara adds agility to data centre portfolio with hyperconverged, converged portfolio upgrades

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox 1
The HCI part of the portfolio introduces the first NVMe offering, while new support on the CI side was announced that will support very large deployments, and a refresh of the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor’s management and orchestration software was announced.

Cloud

New Edge sync file services highlight broad Hitachi Content Platform upgrades

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Edge sync file services highlight broad Hitachi Content Platform upgrades
Hitachi Content Platform, which is fundamental to Hitachi Vantara’s second step in their Stairway to Value by enriching data and providing compliance safeguards, gets some important integration upgrades, but the showier part of this announcement is around the sync variant, HCP Anywhere, which now has an Edge capability that broadens its use case into both IoT and larger ROBO environments.

Data Centre

Hitachi Vantara expands cloud services with Smart Data Center enhancements

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara expands cloud services with Smart Data Center enhancements
The upgrades to Smart Data Center follow up a new solution for modern policing, Hitachi Digital Evidence Management.

Internet of Things

Hitachi Vantara adds new microservices capabilities with Lumada Maintenance Insights solutions

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara adds new microservices capabilities with Lumada Maintenance Insights solutions
These new microservices around the Lumada platform are designed to provide maintenance recommendations for industries like transportation, manufacturing and energy, which can be devastated by surprise breakdowns.

Channel Programs

StorageCraft removes divisions between partner business models in new channel program

September 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorageCraft removes divisions between partner business models in new channel program
In addition to moving VARs and MSP sales into the same pool, the new StorageCraft partner program now brings all the company’s products into a single program, including brand new and acquired ones.

Channel Programs

Hitachi Vantara channel partners climbing the Stairway to Value

September 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara channel partners climbing the Stairway to Value
With a year in the books since the launch of Hitachi Vantara, and five months into a brand new partner program, the company looks at the evolution of the channel changes that accompanied its own reinvention of itself, and what more remains to be done.

Cloud

Hitachi Vantara enhances Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Container Platform with one-click Kubernetes capabilities

September 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara enhances Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Container Platform with one-click Kubernetes capabilities
Hitachi Vantara announces enhancements to their cloud vision, with new capabilities around Kubernetes in a multi-cloud environment through their HEC Container Platform.