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Cohesity adds CloudSpin capability for faster test/dev in the cloud

April 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity adds CloudSpin capability for faster test/dev in the cloud
CloudSpin will be integrated as a free component within the Cohesity platform when it becomes available in 90-120 days.

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Commvault adds Office 365 indexing and discovery to their Azure Stack Integration

April 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault adds Office 365 indexing and discovery to their Azure Stack Integration
The Commvault enhancement allows the indexing and searching of OneDrive for Business documents saved on Azure Stack hybrid clouds, something that will have strong relevance for compliance use cases.

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Kaseya upgrades their Office 365 Backup capability with Spanning partnership

April 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaseya upgrades their Office 365 Backup capability with Spanning partnership
The new offering is much stronger than what Kaseya had before for Office 365 Backup, and is something that Kaseya partners should be able to sell to their own customers at a good margin,

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Veritas boosts partner profitability, simplifies certifications in major partner program redo

April 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas boosts partner profitability, simplifies certifications in major partner program redo
Veritas remakes its partner program to add additional support for its 360 data management portfolio beyond their two core backup products.

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Rubrik introduces complementary Polaris SaaS platform that creates unified system of record

April 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik introduces complementary Polaris SaaS platform that creates unified system of record
Rubrik Polaris is a separate SaaS platform that provides a new turnkey offering that partners can offer to their existing install base, and which should itself generate new sales of entire Rubrik systems among compliance-minded customers.

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HYCU spins off from Comtrade Software to spur growth, adds support for Nutanix AFS, non-Nutanix environments

March 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HYCU spins off from Comtrade Software to spur growth, adds support for Nutanix AFS, non-Nutanix environments
Toronto-headquartered HYCU partner Zycom believes the product enhancements will be significant competitive differentiators for them.

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Pivot3 announces cloud version of their HCI offering for the AWS Cloud

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 announces cloud version of their HCI offering for the AWS Cloud
The features of the next-gen Pivot3 Acuity platform introduced last year are being migrated to the cloud, beginning with using its dynamic provisioning capability for backup and disaster recovery.

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Zerto extends IBM partnership around IBM Resiliency Orchestration DRaaS solution

March 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zerto extends IBM partnership around IBM Resiliency Orchestration DRaaS solution
Zerto is already an established IBM partner, including a relationship with IBM Resiliency. The partnership is now being extended to the IBM Resiliency Orchestration DRaaS offering.

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Veritas broadens partner opportunities for NetBackup with RestAPI

March 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas broadens partner opportunities for NetBackup with RestAPI
In addition to introducing RestAPI for the first time, Veritas also extends the ability to support modern workloads that was first introduced in the previous NetBackup release.

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Strong SMB momentum makes Cohesity first winner of SHI’s Emerging Partner of the Year award

March 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Strong SMB momentum makes Cohesity first winner of SHI’s Emerging Partner of the Year award
Cohesity also met another key criteria for the award, that a vendor provide clear and consistent support to the channel.