Datrium moves from their original licensing model to a new framework designed to provide customers with maximum portability and flexibility.
Backup, Cloud, Storage
Datrium shifts licensing default to software model with Datrium Forward
by Mark Cox •
Cloud
Backup, Cloud
Druva targets VMware customers moving to AWS cloud with DRaaS update
by Mark Cox •
Enhancements include new failback recovery capabilities, and recovery for cloud workloads with cross-region/account support.
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SAP Chief Partner Officer Fahrbach says his new role reflects partner focus away from selling and towards delivering customer satisfaction
by Mark Cox •
Fahrbach also said that in comparison with the sales position held by his predecessor, Rodolpho Cardenuto, as SAP’s top channel official, he represents the entire global partner organization, and brings it to a higher level of importance within the company.
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SAP names Karl Fahrbach first chief partner officer in reworking of channel chief role
by Mark Cox •
Fahrbach’s new position is a hybrid of the work he had already been doing and the large scope of the role formerly filled by Rodolpho Cardenuto, who recently left SAP.
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Intermedia adds free Envision analytics for partners to Unite platform
by Mark Cox •
Envision provides a Partner Dashboard showing all customers, and a QoS Dashboard that drills down into a single customer, with more analytics dashboards on the roadmap.
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Cloud, Networking
Meta Networks upgrades their Network-as-a-Service offering
by Mark Cox •
Meta Networks has taken customer feedback since coming out of stealth almost a year ago, and made a series of enhancements around security, management and usability.
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Big Data, Cloud, Software
Major new channel synergies anticipated from Qlik acquisition of Attunity
by Mark Cox •
While Attunity’s smaller channel, which is principally SI’s, will realize more significant and elastic capabilities through Qlik, Qlik’s legacy channel, which is much larger, will reap new data integration capabilities. This is something Qlik sees as vital because of where they believe the analytics market is headed.
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Kemp expands automation and predictive analytics beyond ADC as part of branding reorientation around customer experience
by Mark Cox •
Kemp extends the automation it provided previously, including adding the ability to provide alerts about other part of the stack than their vADCs.
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Pure Storage fleshes out hybrid cloud strategy with NVMe-oF support and ObjectEngine launch
by Mark Cox •
Support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet is available now in Purity 5.2 software, while the ObjectEngine flash-to-flash-to-cloud data protection acquired from StorReduce will hit GA in the first half of the year.
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Dell EMC upgrades Isilon, Unity elements of storage portfolio
by Mark Cox •
Dell EMC unveils a new Isilon scale-out system, the F810, which has built in data compression capabilities. They have also enhanced their Unity platform with the OE 4.5 software release.
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Attunity unveils new solutions to automate the data pipeline to Azure
by Mark Cox •
For channel partners, Attunity’s new level of automation of the data pipeline to the Azure cloud frees them from migration processes that took months, and lets them provide more strategic services to customers.
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BetterCloud opens APIs to enable new runbook connectors with their platform to be built by any developer
by Mark Cox •
BetterCloud has built ten connectors to major applications which involve complex integrations like real-time activity alerts, and now they are announcing what they are terming their most important release to date, which will allow developers of other apps to build connectors to them.
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Field sales alignment brings WDC into Komprise Series C Funding round as strategic investor
by Mark Cox •
Komprise, which sells entirely through the channel, has been growing their footprint by 600 per cent in existing customers, and last year doubled their revenues every quarter.
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Cloud, Data Centre, Solution Provider News
Armughan Ahmad to drive digital transformation as Canadian Managing Partner of digital and technology solutions at KPMG in Canada
by Mark Cox •
Dell EMC and HP alumnus Armughan Ahmad talks about his move to KPMG in Canada, and how he intends to accelerate their digital transformation business, which will include increasing the work KPMG does with the IT channel.
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Cloud, Data Centre
Robotics-focused Ripcord deepens partner play with hiring of their first channel chief
by Mark Cox •
While Ripcord has gotten media attention for their use of robotics, they emphasize the robotics’ use within an end-to-end data retrieval and content enrichment and management solution.
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SwiftStack sees big pluses in partnering with Veeam around new Veeam Cloud Tier
by Mark Cox •
The SwiftStack integration, their first ever with Veeam, lets local data on Veeam servers be automatically moved between performance and capacity tiers created in SwiftStack, defined by an organization’s management and retention policies.
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Veeam adds new Cloud Tier, enhances Cloud Mobility and DataLabs in new Availability Suite release
by Mark Cox •
In addition to the flood of news around Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4, Veeam also announced Veeam Availability for AWS, Veeam Availability Console V3, and a new licensing option with one license for any workload.
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Cloud, Unified Communications
Avaya builds out cloud strategy with new private cloud delivery model
by Mark Cox •
Avaya’s cloud strategy in the past could never be described as crisp, but major changes were announced at Engage to change that, with new OneCloud branding and ReadyNow enterprise bundles to bring solutions to market quickly.
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Kemp sees use beyond sales in new TCO calculator to assess applicability of consumption-based licensing for customers
by Mark Cox •
Kemp has introduced a new TCO calculator that shows customers the difference in costs between metered, perpetual, and competitive licensing options, and is emphasizing its use as an educational tool that shows more than cost savings, illustrating how the alternatives apply in different kinds of scenarios, and whether consumption-based licensing is a good fit for a specific customer.
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Cloud, Mobility, Security, Virtualization
Pulse Secure introduces full-featured vADC Community Edition to turn developers into fans
by Mark Cox •
Pulse Secure has had free ‘try before you buy’ products before, but this new Community Edition has all the features of the full version, and with no time limit on use. The only limitations are that its scalability is limited to smaller applications, and it lacks the full management and Pulse Secure support.
