Hyper-converged

Nutanix lays out strategy to take advantage of partners’ Broadcom Blues

The details on what will clearly be massive change from Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware have been gradually being made public, and Nutanix is one of the VMware competitors who see opportunities created by channel disruption.

StorMagic reviews VMware options with partners in light of Broadcom changes

StorMagic also indicated to their partners that they have been redoing their own channel program, which they say will add new features while taking nothing away, and should be announced in the next 4-8 weeks.

Nutanix makes major enhancements to Elevate Partner Program

Nutanix adds a series of new incents and enablement supports designed to make partners fully autonomous, efficient, and able to support customer success.

StorMagic, HPE extend partnership around HPE ProLiant MicroServer

StorMagic SvSAN, which has been a strategic partner of HPE for several years and is part of the HPE Complete program that takes complementary solutions to market with HPE products, has validated their software with the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Platform.

Dell Technologies, VMware introduce three new major announcements around new integrations

These include support for the new VMware vSphere 8 and VM vSAN announcements, and result in an improved VxRail which has jointly engineered support for vSPhere’s DPUs. They also include the addition of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid services to Dell APEX, and the addition to the Dell Validated Design portfolio of Dell Validated Designs for AI.

Dell hardware sales through partners help propel record setting Q4 and 2021

Dell’s hardware business benefited greatly from organizations, at this stage of their tech rebuild, needing to refresh a hardware base in data centres that was at least two years old, and generally older than that.

Scale Computing sees enormous opportunity in full-stack solutions being created by expansion of IBM’s edge ecosystem

IBM’s expansion of its ecosystem around IBM Edge Application Manager, which added Scale as a partner, not only brings them in for their traditional ecostructure branch-office-in-a-box play, but will likely make them part of more complex solutions with other third-party vendors.

StorMagic, Hivecell partner on first HCI PaaS for the Edge

The partnership between two edge-focused HCI vendors will see StorMagic’s SvSAN software provide High Availabiity to Hivecell’s edge  Platform-as-a-Service devices.

Nutanix expands Elevate Partner Program with new Service Provider tier

The service provider program, which was announced last fall with the Elevate program and is going live now, has two tiers, and is accompanied by a promo offer that runs through next January.

StorMagic, Zerto collaborate on HPE validated joint solution through HPE Complete program

HPE brought the two vendors together to design a validated solution on HPE Proliant servers, which combines Zerto’s high resiliency with StorMagic’s lightweight software for edge deployments.

Dell refreshes VxRail HCI portfolio with new platforms, software upgrades and new dynamic nodes

The dynamic nodes allow VxRail to be used for more compute-heavy use cases, by adding compute nodes which remove the parallelism in HCI between storage and compute.

Lenovo makes new edge, datacentre and services-related HCI announcements

These include an industry first 4U 8-socket platform for large HANA deployments that has been certified by SAP and VMware, and  their ThinkAgile HX1021, which extends last year’s edge enhancements for Lenovo’s Microsoft platform to the Nutanix stack.

HCI vendor StorMagic moves into video and data management with SoleraTec acquisition

StorMagic’s move into the video market follows up their entry into encryption key management a year ago, also through an acquisition, and continues their strategy of dramatically increasing their TAM.

HPE enhances backup in SimpliVity edge solutions with new CloudVolumes and enhanced StoreOnce support

The HPE SimpliVity 4.1.0 release also provides new container integration with the Kubernetes CSI Plugin for HPE SimpliVity.

Veritas looks to cancel competitor HCI deployments in NetBackup environments by adding Flex Scale deployment option

NetBackup 9 responds to customer requests for an HCI option that they can use in new projects, while simplifying their management to have a solution managed by a single vendor.

New Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami to focus on execution as company transforms from HCI provider to HCI provider

Ramaswami, who joins Nutanix from arch-competitor VMware, says discipline and execution will be the key as Nutanix transforms from the hyperconverged infrastructure provider that made it a billion dollar company, to the hybrid cloud infrastructure provider that will take it from one billion to two billion.Nutanix has announced the appointment of Rajiv Ramaswami as President,…

StorMagic expands HPE relationship with Edgeline validation

StorMagic, which has a Go-to-Market partnership with HPE for their HCI software, has extended that from the initial ProLiant focus earlier this year to the edge-focused HPE Edgeline servers