Cloud

SAP shifting Business ByDesign model to be more partner driven

October 17, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Last year rumours surfaced that SAP was shutting Business ByDesign down, but instead it has moved it to the HANA platform, given it its own general manager, and changed its go-to-market model to better leverage partners.

Tim FitzGerald, vice president of cloud solutions at Avnet Technology Solutions

Video: Talking Packaged Cloud with Avnet’s Tim FitzGerald

October 14, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Avnet Technology Solutions cloud boss TimFitzGerald discusses Packaged Cloud strategy and outlines benefits for both solution providers and their customers.

Salesforce.com enters analytics market with Wave analytics cloud

October 13, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Salesforce.com busts into the analytics market with a product that is easy to use, and doesn’t require having their CRM product.

Nutanix announces all-flash appliance, new synchronous replication capability

October 9, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The company is announcing its first all-flash offering, the NX-9000 appliance. It is also announcing Metro Availability, a new capability which allows a customer to deliver synchronous data replication to two data centres.

RackWare unveils first formal channel program

October 7, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

RackWare is not yet using distribution in North America, but distributors growing role as cloud aggregators or brokers means they will likely look at this next year.

Edison Peres, senior vice president of cloud and managed services at Cisco

Cisco launches Intercloud fabric, boosts cloud financing

October 2, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco adds another $1 billion to the pot as it launches its Intercloud Fabric and announces new partners, including distributors, for its cloud strategy.

EMC partners with Ottawa’s CloudLink on integrated RecoverPoint cloud solution

September 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The joint offering with EMC, available through EMC and its channel, is designed to provide a secure Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering that is less expensive and less complex to deploy than existing DR solutions.

IndependenceIT adds AWS to its Cloud Workspace Suite integrations

September 22, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The AWS integration follows up earlier ones with Azure and Google, to expand IndependenceIT’s reach and partner network.

BlueData launches software to create Big Data private cloud experience on-prem

September 17, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Blue Data says their technology makes it possible to build 100 node Hadoop and Spark clusters in less than ten minutes, and get the same kind of on-premise Big Data as the huge cloud companies at a fraction of the cost.