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Sad news: SAP Anywhere launch in Canada delayed indefinitely

May 19, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sad news: SAP Anywhere launch in Canada delayed indefinitely
SAP Anywhere formally launched in the U.S. this week. But while demand for the small business-focused CRM solution is strong, a change in SAP’s SMB applications strategy has led to the Canadian launch being put on hold for now.

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New Dell Validated System for SAP HANA Edge to bring HANA to SMBs

May 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Dell Validated System for SAP HANA Edge to bring HANA to SMBs
Other Dell SAP-related initiatives announced at SAPPHIRE NOW included ones around the Internet of Things, cloud blueprints to optimize SAP environments, and a new optimized architecture for SAP Foundation for Health.

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New HDS UCP1000 for SAP HANA to be strong mid-market partner play

May 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New HDS UCP1000 for SAP HANA to be strong mid-market partner play
Hitachi Data Systems has greatly deepened its strategic relationship with SAP around HANA in the last several years, and its new announcements, which cover from the low end of the market to the high, broaden that portfolio.

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RMM/PSA provider Atera offers business intelligence capability to all MSPs

May 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on RMM/PSA provider Atera offers business intelligence capability to all MSPs
Atera’s technology, which facilitates jointly developed RMM and PSA solutions, is designed for the Internet of Things environment, and collects massive amount of sensor data, which it is using in a free BI offering, not just for its own MSP partners, but anyone who wants to use it.

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HDS adds full native unified capability, predictive analytics to unified VSP G series

April 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HDS adds full native unified capability, predictive analytics to unified VSP G series
The enhancements to the HDS unified storage platform aimed at the enterprise and mid-market also now allow cloud tiering from the appliance itself, and new support for VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes assists performance in virtualized environments.

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Dell launches first wave of its Internet of Things Partner program for ISVs

April 19, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell launches first wave of its Internet of Things Partner program for ISVs
Dell has formally launched a program with about 25 ISVs, but also makes it clear this is a pretty basic first step. Several months down the line they say there will be more useful functionality for partners, and also a lot more of them.

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Sumo Logic adds metrics to first unified log and metrics machine data analytics platform

April 12, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sumo Logic adds metrics to first unified log and metrics machine data analytics platform
Sumo Logic becomes the first machine data analytics vendor to unify both structured and unstructured data, significantly expanding their market opportunities, and providing a broader range of service offerings for partners.

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Gigamon adds Professional Service Partner Program to channel offerings

April 8, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Gigamon adds Professional Service Partner Program to channel offerings
Gigamon decided last year that its professional services would be purely a partner play, and accordingly, has formalized and expanded the assistance it was offering informally to partners in professional services in order to enable significantly more partners.

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Gigamon enhances security focus with new Metadata Engine

February 29, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Gigamon enhances security focus with new Metadata Engine
Gigamon enhances the security platform at the core of their growing security business, while continuing to increase and develop the security-focused part of their channel. They will also be implementing a Gigamon Professional Services program in Q2.

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HDS announces new predictive analytics UCP model that forecasts customer churn

February 22, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HDS announces new predictive analytics UCP model that forecasts customer churn
The new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform 6000 for Predictive Analytics integrates SAP Predictive Analytics software, and while aimed mainly at telcos and media service providers, may have a broader audience than that.