VMware Canada’s Peter Near discusses the company’s upcoming acquisitions of Pivotal and Carbon Black, its Tanzu strategy for embracing Kubernetes, and the cloud opportunity in Canada in this edition of the podcast.
Iland’s Canadian expansion is part of a series of new channel-focused initiatives which include a new partner portal and an enhancement of Catalyst, a cloud assessment tool used in pre-sales.
Dell Technologies made a series of VMware related announcements on Day One of VMworld, which also included the first two Cloud Validated designs between the two companies, and the availability of a flexible consumption model. Initial availability for the Data Centre-as-a-Service offering announced earlier was also announced, but it’s not yet in Canada.
End user computing vendor IGEL is back at VMworld this year, showing off joint IGEL-VMware solutions and customers, and emphasizing that Microsoft’s support of Windows Virtual Desktop, as well as their new collaboration with VMware, are creating massive new opportunities for IGEL and their channel.
Big Cloud Fabric now manages VPCs in the AWS cloud, while Global VPCs like Google Cloud provides will now be available across the hybrid cloud for both AWS and Azure. Multi-Cloud Director is now also available as a cloud-based service.
Naveego also now uses machine learning to add the ability to profile data at the edge without having to transfer it.
The multi-tiered storage tiering system for the AWS cloud covers all layers of AWS storage, including S3, Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive, with Druva moving the data either by its own policies or ones set by the customer.
Susan Bowen, Aptum’s CEO, talks with ChannelBuzz about the company’s new brand and plans going forward.
The new release of Rubrik’s Cloud Data Management platform also adds automated Disaster Recovery orchestration and Continuous Data Protection.
While Pax8’s MSPs give them good reviews on the interface of the distributor’s marketplace, the drive to improve the customer experience has led to enhancements around ordering speed, search, and granularity around user-based billing.
NetApp’s focus over the last two years has been to encourage partners to adapt their business models to add more services, cloud, and breadth within NetApp’s growing portfolio. Global Channel Chief Chris Lamborn provides an update.
Asigra believes the new offering will appeal to MSPs looking to get away from brokerage and get more control over their customers, without having to invest in a data centre.
Most of the improvements to Stratusphere are plumbing enhancements which may be more dramatic to Liquidware partners than to customers.
The German print management service provider was named a launch partner around Windows Virtual Desktop, and has designed the new program to assist partners to integrate their ezeep solution into technology and business workflows.
The companies will establish a Centre of Excellence for customers by the third quarter, and plan to have new solutions out in 2020.
The free trial lasts three weeks, and is designed both to expose Blue Prism to Azure customers and to raise awareness of an Azure deployment among Blue Prism’s on-prem customer base.
The increase in big deals bringing in larger customers is a key reason behind the appointment of Brad Richards as IGEL’s first Chief Customer Officer.
Komprise also announced the appointment of two new senior execs, Chris Moore as SVP of Worldwide Sales and Randy Hopkins as VP Global Systems Engineering and Enablement.
While the two major new alliances were the splashy announcements, CloudJumper also announced the release of version 5.3 of their Cloud Workspace Management Suite.
While a year ago at Enterprise World, OpenText announced the OT2 cloud’s availability, this year they emphasized the mission-critical services they have begun to bring to market.
