Mark Cox

N-able expands Arcserve relationship with Arcserve UDP

December 11, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

N-able expands on its relationship with arcserve to carry the arcserve next-gen UDP solution for the first time, which is branded as N-able Backup Manager UDP.

Pure Storage enters converged infrastructure market with all-flash FlashStack solutions

December 11, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Two solutions were announced, both of which use Cisco and VMware as partners, but more converged all-flash solutions are coming from Pure, and these will use additional vendor partners as well.

IBM, Apple deliver first wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS apps

December 11, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Aimed at both the enterprise and mid-market, the new apps will be customized, integrated and deployed by partners, and IBM will support partners here with several new tools.

BitTitan extends MigrationWiz to migrate DropBox to One Drive for Business and Google Drive

December 10, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

BitTitan sees their tool to migrate DropBox accounts to Microsoft One Drive for Business or Google Drive as particularly appealing to customers looking to consolidate all their data.

Avaya repositions collaboration offerings with Avaya Engagement Solutions portfolio

December 10, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Avaya rebrands and reorganizes its collaboration solutions to focus on engagement, and announces some significant new and enhanced solutions, including a beefed-up version of IP Office.

Asigra selects AWS as first third party provider to expand partner cloud infrastructure options

December 9, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Partners asked Asigra to provide an integration with the AWS cloud because AWS prices now make it feasible to use it and make money.

Enhanced DFS namespace automation highlights Data DynamicsStorageX 7.5 release

December 8, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Improved automation of Microsoft’s DFS global namespace management capability highlights this release.

Canadian retailers ring up low scores in backup protection in new EMC-sponsored study

December 5, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

EMC Canada’s Michael Sharun also stressed that channel partners (and sales people generally) need to do a better job of adding backup and recovery to their storage sales.

HP unveils new 3PAR converged flash array, File Persona

December 2, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The 7440c Converged Flash Array gives the same performance as an all-flash array, while adding the affordability and flexibility of adding spinning media. It is aimed at the high midmarket through the enterprise.