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Cohesity restructures partner program to reflect company maturity

November 19, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity restructures partner program to reflect company maturity
The major changes to the program include moving from a single tier to three, and adding a new business incentive for both net-new customers and for sales of the additional Cohesity data management solutions.

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HYCU for Google Cloud Platform adds cost efficiencies plus HANA and open source database support

November 12, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on HYCU for Google Cloud Platform adds cost efficiencies plus HANA and open source database support
HYCU, which started out with a purpose-built backup solution for Nutanix, and added one for GCP earlier this year, has introduced a major enhancement to the GCP offering.

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Axcient consolidates and simplifies solutions in new Axcient X360 converged backup platform

November 1, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Axcient consolidates and simplifies solutions in new Axcient X360 converged backup platform
The culmination of new CEO David Bennett’s initiative to respond to MSP concerns by eliminating complexity and annoyance created by the old portfolio, the new platform unites all the old solutions within one platform, with one consistent interface, and eliminates some pricing and storage pain points.

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Aparavi leverages intelligence of archive solution for new backup offering

October 21, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Aparavi leverages intelligence of archive solution for new backup offering
Aparavi File Protect & Insight is being sold as a separate solution from their original Active Archive, because the use cases are so fundamentally different.

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Commvault Canada country manager Hemdan bullish on new Commvault offerings

October 18, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault Canada country manager Hemdan bullish on new Commvault offerings
While the Metallic SaaS solution for the midmarket won’t arrive in Canada till the new year, the strengthening of Commvault Activate further enhances a solution that is already doing well in Canada.

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Commvault scales up Activate Go-to-Market with licensing changes, product enhancements

October 17, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault scales up Activate Go-to-Market with licensing changes, product enhancements
Since its formal launch a year ago, Commvault has been strengthening its internal resources behind the offering, and will be doing the same with channel resources going forward.

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If backup is dead, what is Acronis today?

October 16, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on If backup is dead, what is Acronis today?
Acronis Americas boss Patrick Hurley discusses how MSPs should think about the company in its cyber-protection era, why the company is looking to build in Canada, and much more in this edition of the podcast.

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Commvault touts ‘Data Brain’ for unified data management and storage with expanded Hedvig use cases

October 16, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault touts ‘Data Brain’ for unified data management and storage with expanded Hedvig use cases
At their GO 2019 event, Commvault laid out further details about their vision for their Hedvig software-defined storage acquisition, as well as its roadmap going forward.

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Commvault’s new Metallic SaaS offering for midmarket will be pure channel play

October 15, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault’s new Metallic SaaS offering for midmarket will be pure channel play
Canadian partners need to be prepared to wait a while however. The new services launch in the U.S. only, and the plan is to pilot it there to make sure it delivers what customers want.

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Commvault drives home trust theme at Partner Xchange

October 15, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault drives home trust theme at Partner Xchange
Hollywood stunt doubles and a data therapy dog were part of the core messaging Commvault delivered to partners at the start of their GO event Monday: that partners can trust Commvault to deliver peace of mind to customers and increased simplicity and predictability in their business with the company.