Articles by Mark Cox

Cloud

Nutanix adds hybrid cloud, high performance appliance

August 19, 2014 Mark Cox 1
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.

Stephen Terlizzi, Xangati’s VP of Global Marketing
Cloud

Xangati adds application-aware infrastructure intelligence to solution

August 19, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Xangati adds application-aware infrastructure intelligence to solution
Xangati, which makes intelligent cloud and workload performance management solutions for virtualized environments, introduces Xangati Product Suite XSR12.

Big Data

SaaS BI vendor SiSense names first channel chief

August 18, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on SaaS BI vendor SiSense names first channel chief
SiSense has a short sales cycle for BI, and is offering aggressive margins, including the same margins on renewals.

Distribution

Markham’s Invixium signs on with Ingram Micro Canada

August 18, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Markham’s Invixium signs on with Ingram Micro Canada
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.

Cloud

Zetta.net brings full server image backups to the cloud

August 18, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zetta.net brings full server image backups to the cloud
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.

Channel Programs

Channel continues strong performance for Lenovo

August 18, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Channel continues strong performance for Lenovo
Lenovo has also just relaunched its New Customer Bonus program, giving the option of a front-end as well as a back-end rebate.

Channel Programs

BiTMICRO moves into enterprise SSDs with MAXio drives

August 14, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on BiTMICRO moves into enterprise SSDs with MAXio drives
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.

Communications

ShoreTel Mobility 8 adds video, Communicator integration

August 14, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on ShoreTel Mobility 8 adds video, Communicator integration
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.

Hardware

Much more memory in enhanced Dell workstations

August 13, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Much more memory in enhanced Dell workstations
Dell has announced refreshed – and rebranded – mainstream and performance tower and rack workstations

Cloud

Silver Peak unveils Unity Fabric uniting cloud, internet, and WAN

August 13, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Silver Peak unveils Unity Fabric uniting cloud, internet, and WAN
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.