Articles by Mark Cox

Operating Systems

Pure Storage joins OpenStack Foundation, announces two OpenStack solutions

October 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage joins OpenStack Foundation, announces two OpenStack solutions
Pure sees OpenStack as providing a great services opportunity to help customers adapt OpenStack for private clouds, since it is necessary to help them adapt OpenStack to different customer circumstances.

Storage

Skyera brings second generation of dense skyHawk flash array to market

October 29, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Skyera brings second generation of dense skyHawk flash array to market
In addition to being lightweight and energy efficient, the new skyhawk FS offers price parity with HDD systems “without tricks”, at $2.99 per GB.

Unified Communications

Unify brings Project Ansible to market as Circuit SaaS collaboration tool

October 28, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Unify brings Project Ansible to market as Circuit SaaS collaboration tool
Circuit brings together voice, video, screen sharing, messaging, and file sharing within a single interface, with extreme simplicity of use.

Cloud

HDS announces three new cloud options

October 27, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on HDS announces three new cloud options
The enhancements to Hitachi Unified Compute Platform which streamline and accelerate the process of building and managing cloud are the big news here for most HDS partners.

Cloud

Internet of Things has strong potential for Canadian MSPs: AVG

October 24, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Internet of Things has strong potential for Canadian MSPs: AVG
AVG’s commercial market strategy is now based around MSPs, who the company thinks are well positioned to handle the additional management tasks that the Internet of Things is bringing.

Servers

HP adds new cartridges to Moonshot portfolio

October 23, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP adds new cartridges to Moonshot portfolio
New Moonshot apps for application delivery, video transcoding, and a Web infrastructure-in-a-box solution for Web hosters, allow HP to target more custom markets with Moonshot.

Security

McAfee trims prices, enhances partner margins on new SMB portfolio

October 22, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on McAfee trims prices, enhances partner margins on new SMB portfolio
McAfee has retooled its SMB offerings, with three new suites which feature McAfee’s next-generation anti-malware technology, which is being deployed for the first time in these solutions.

Hardware

Connected Data introduces Transporter channel play with private business cloud device

October 21, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Connected Data introduces Transporter channel play with private business cloud device
Transporter Genesis becomes the company’s first non-Drobo product to be a strong channel offering, and will heavily leverage the Drobo channel to go to market.

Networking

Extreme Networks adds new switch, wireless access point to Unified Edge portfolio

October 21, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Extreme Networks adds new switch, wireless access point to Unified Edge portfolio
The new switch becomes Extreme’s highest performance Gigabit edge model, while the new AP is aimed at more cost-conscious buyers.

Distribution

Avnet now authorized as Lenovo distributor for x86 servers

October 20, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avnet now authorized as Lenovo distributor for x86 servers
The agreement, which went into effect October 1, covers only the server products acquired from IBM, but Avnet is assessing whether to carry the rest of the Lenovo server portfolio as well.