The company began working with resellers in the U.S. a year and a half ago, and in March 2014 a partner program was formalized in the U.S. That program has now been extended to Canada.
The big gain for Avaya is that HP ES will greatly amplify the reach of Avaya Private Cloud Services, and they say the channel will have a significant role to play.
Dell is seeing significant growth through distribution as it ramps up its activity with disties, including a return to working with Ingram Micro Canada.
VMware sees growth in cloud and end user computing, and tells partners it has to shift its sales motion as it becomes much more than a one-product company.
VMware works with hardware partners to introduce Evo:Rail, a “hyper-converged infrastucture” offering that aims to make hybrid IT easier for enterprises.
The new Dell-VMware converged infrastructure solution is aimed at the mid-market, while the offering with Cumulus is targeted more at very large, Linux-savvy organizations.
The major focus of the new releases is removing significant barriers to adoption, notably greatly reducing storage costs, and adding FIPS certification.
Ingram Micro Cloud has also launched a new Cloud Elevate program, in which Ingram partners who register as a partner in Ingram’s Cloud Marketplace by September 30th will receive free Ingram Micro-hosted solutions with $100 credit a month.
The long-time maker of RAID controllers and subsystems embarks on its first venture in the cloud, and its first software application venture, with plans to expand it into a hybrid cloud offering.
While ThreatTrack has a channel of SMB-focused VIPRE resellers, the new channel chief’s task is to build an enterprise-focused channel for ThreatSecure, and to do that, he is looking to distribution.
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.
Xangati, which makes intelligent cloud and workload performance management solutions for virtualized environments, introduces Xangati Product Suite XSR12.