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.
The announcements being made today at this year’s Dell Summit all revolve around the company’s newer edge and telecom businesses.
The new N-series, which also incorporates Sophos cybersecurity technology, is aimed at customers in the high midmarket and in the enterprise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The HPE SimpliVity 4.1.0 release also provides new container integration with the Kubernetes CSI Plugin for HPE SimpliVity.
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.
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, 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
StorMagic expands the cloud presence for the encryption key management offering it acquired earlier this year, which broadens opportunities for their channel partners.
The Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) 4.0 release makes significant enhances to Hitachi UCP Advisor, and adds important new SAP and VMware certifications.
Nutanix follows up their recent partnership with AWS with a second major cloud infrastructure partnership, designed to emphasize the importance of the company’s focus now on hybrid cloud infrastructure.
The Nutanix Channel Charter, introduced only two years ago, will run in parallel with the Elevate program until all partners have made their competency choices, with all partners being grandfathered under the Channel Charter benefits until then.
Nutanix’s flurry of new product news follows a general theme of moving from HCI where they began to a broader hybrid cloud infrastructure story.
While the Microsoft and Diamanti solutions are complete net-news, the expansion of the Nutanix ThinkAgile HX portfolio to include the first AMD models in the Lenovo HCI portfolio may be the biggest news.
