Veeam’s Director of Product Strategy talks with ChannelBuzz about what the deal will mean for Veeam, and for its channel partners.
Big Data
Veeam discusses new $500 million VC investment and indicates it buries thoughts of IPO
by Mark Cox •
Big Data
Big Data, Cloud
WANDisco adds multi-cloud capability to platform with blockchain technology
by Mark Cox •
WANDisco has developed and patented DConE, its own blockchain technology that they can use today to keep data consistent across multiple clouds, and which they plan to be able to eventually use to manage distributed blockchain environments as well.
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Big Data, Cloud
Accelerite introduces no-code, serverless platform for end-to-end AWS analytics in ShareInsights 3.0 software
by Mark Cox •
ShareInsights 3.0 is the first cloud-native version of the platform, which opens up AWS analytics to more users by abstracting the entire AWS analytics stack.
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Big Data, Storage
New Pentaho-Hitachi Content Platform integration strengthens, simplifies Pentaho use of unstructured data
by Mark Cox •
The new Pentaho 8.2 release also makes hybrid cloud data management easier, and adds new and updated ecosystem support, including their first with the Jupyter Notebook open-source web application.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Hardware
HPE highlights memory-driven computing in cutting edge genomic research at HPE Discover
by Mark Cox •
Biotech startup Jungla is the first HPE customer to use the new Memory-Driven Computing Sandbox, to accelerate processing of individualized genomic testing data by more than 200 times compared with traditional hardware, taking the time needed to get results from around 250 days to as little as a day.
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Big Data, Cloud
Naveego sees joint work on customer deployment with BI vendor Sisense as portent of more vendor collaborations
by Mark Cox •
Data quality vendor Naveego has announced a collaboration with Sisense around one customer, and while this is not even a formal partnership, they believe that their synergies with BI vendors and ability to work easily with their platforms make such strategic partnerships an important part of their future.
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Big Data, Data Centre
X-IO Technologies rebrands as Axellio to focus on edge and HCI after selling storage business to Violin
by Mark Cox •
Axellio has only had its new product portfolio on the market for a little over a year, but has met with a strong response for their edge solutions in the performance part of the market, and just introduced a new HCI solution in partnership with Microsoft that is based on the Microsoft software-defined stack.
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Big Data, Cloud
New plug and play applications highlight Looker 6 platform release
by Mark Cox •
BI provider Looker is kicking off their JOIN 2018 event in San Francisco with the launch of the latest version of their platform
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Big Data, Security
Splunk creates ‘better together’ security story with expanded suite of security offerings
by Mark Cox •
Splunk adds Phantom’s remediation capabilities to complete their end-to-end security story, while announcing new versions of their SIEM and User BBehavior Analytics software.
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Big Data, Cloud, Storage
SwiftStack expands market presence with new partnership with Splunk around Splunk SmartStore
by Mark Cox •
SwiftStack sees their new partnership with Spunk around the new SmartStore feature within the Splunk Enterprise platform as offering enormous new opportunities for SwiftStack, in making them attractive to customers who would never have considered them before.
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Big Data, Internet of Things
Splunk creates full Internet of Things offering with Splunk Industrial IoT
by Mark Cox •
Splunk announced its first full Internet of Things offering, with a bundle that combines Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence, introduced earlier this year, with the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, to provide a full IoT solution with both predictive analysis and customization capability.
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Big Data, SalesBuzz
Selling Splunk: Keeping Splunk’s sales strategy up to date with Splunk Next’s technology advances
by Mark Cox •
Splunk introduced six new offerings at their .conf18 user conference, which are entering beta, and which are designed to open Splunk to large numbers of new customers. That market expansion will create new opportunities for the right partners.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
Splunk CEO Merritt: Splunk opportunities riding the crest of a technology explosion
by Mark Cox •
Doug Merritt, Splunk’s President and CEO, kicked off the Splunk .conf18 event in Orlando by emphasizing the congruence between the company’s greatest wave of innovation ever, and the time in the market when the pace of change and the ability to tap into the monstrous mess that is contemporary data are at their peak of importance.
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Big Data, Channel Programs, Internet of Things
New OEM and system integrator tracks highlight channel announcements at Spunk .conf
by Mark Cox •
The new tracks – the last of those likely for specific types of partners – were announced at this event, and will go live at next year’s Global Partner Summit. Other channel changes include some enhancements to the certification process.
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Big Data, Data Centre, Internet of Things
Splunk enhances analytics scalability, allows separate scaling of compute and storage and enables LOB users in new platform release
by Mark Cox •
Splunk’s announcements at the outset of their Spunk .conf18 event include significant new updates of their Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud platforms
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Big Data, Data Centre, Internet of Things
Splunk adds specific KPI predictive analytics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.0
by Mark Cox •
The general ramp up of the ITSI predictive analytics solution also includes new integrations with VictorOps and Splunk App for Infrastructure.
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Big Data, Cloud
Data Quality vendor Naveego looks to Big Data with new platform release
by Mark Cox •
Naveego has refocused their platform for tracking, logging and cleansing data to be able to handle Big Data volumes, to take advantage of what they see as a growing opportunity in this space.
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Backup, Big Data
Imanis Data adds more machine learning functionality to Hadoop and NOSQL-focused Data Management Platform
by Mark Cox •
Key enhancements include a new RPO-driven backup capability and the first automated Any-Point-In-Time Recovery capability for NoSQL databases.
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Big Data, Software
Information Builders gives WebFOCUS platform modernized UI to drive much greater adoption
by Mark Cox •
Information Builders has enhanced the analytics capabilities in their platform, but the big news with this release is the UI changes, designed to make it much easier for a broader range of users to work with.
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Big Data
Increasing data catalogue adoption leads Alation to establish first partner program
by Mark Cox •
The Alation program launches with a dozen partners, which includes BI vendors and a mix of regional and niche integrators.
