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ESET Canada celebrates 10 years

August 15, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on ESET Canada celebrates 10 years
ESET Canada just is celebrated the ten year anniversary of its Canadian operations, which dates from August 13, 2015, during which time they also expanded their reseller channel and their MDR channel.

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Hitachi Vantara introduces Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service

July 7, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara introduces Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service
The new as a service offering combines the Vantara Virtual Storage Platform One with technology from Cisco and software firm Zetaris to provide customers with smarter AI.

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Aryaka Networks revamps SD-WAN approach to create a robust SASE system

March 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Aryaka Networks revamps SD-WAN approach to create a robust SASE system
SD-WAN vendor Aryaka Networks has significantly changed their business model, from their traditional SD-WAN approach to a unified SASE system.

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Hybrid cloud infrastructure vendor Hitachi Vantara launches new partnership with Virtana and its platform suite 

December 4, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hybrid cloud infrastructure vendor Hitachi Vantara launches new partnership with Virtana and its platform suite 
Hitachi Vantara and Virtana have announced a new collaboration with AI-powered monitoring and observability vendor Virtana, which will integrate Virtana’s suite with the Hitachi Vantara  EverFlex infrastructure-as-a-service offering.

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HYCU partners with Anthropic around new HYCU Generative AI Issue

January 30, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on HYCU partners with Anthropic around new HYCU Generative AI Issue
HYCU’s new offering utilizes Claude, Anthropics’s AI assistant, to integrate AI into the HYCU backup platform.

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NetApp introduces ASA C-Series family with capacity flash for top performance at near disk cost

October 25, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp introduces ASA C-Series family with capacity flash for top performance at near disk cost
Other enhancements to the NetApp storage portfolio include enhancements to NetApp Keystone Storage-as-a-Service.

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Pure Storage commits to pay customers’ power and rack space costs as part of upgrades to Evergreen portfolio

October 10, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage commits to pay customers’ power and rack space costs as part of upgrades to Evergreen portfolio
Other new offerings include Pure Protect, a new resilience and DRaaS product line and improvements to the service experience.

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Simon Ewington lays out vision as new HPE VP of Worldwide Channel and Partner Ecosystem

September 1, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Simon Ewington lays out vision as new HPE VP of Worldwide Channel and Partner Ecosystem
Ewington won’t exactly be a new face, having been at HP and then HPE for 27 years, including many channel facing roles, and having been acting in this position on an interim basis since February, but his past experience provides him with views how partners can be made more effective.

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Grip Security raises $41 million in new funding round as they strengthen focus on channel strategy

August 22, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Grip Security raises $41 million in new funding round as they strengthen focus on channel strategy
Grip’s SaaS identity risk management is a hot one, which has helped their growth, as has the continued evolution of their channel-centric strategy.

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HPE announces new Diversity Startup Program to provide GreenLake Cloud Services to women-owned and minority businesses

June 22, 2023 Mark Cox 1
The HPE Diversity Startup Program launches with one publicly named customer and a single partner, but HPE expects both will expand significantly as awareness of the program increases.