Hyper-converged

Hyper-converged

StorPool Storage launches all-in-one software-based HCI solution integrated with Oracle Virtualization.

November 19, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorPool Storage launches all-in-one software-based HCI solution integrated with Oracle Virtualization.
The StorPool next-gen HCI Software Stack has multiple advantages over VMware and its integration with Oracle Virtualization is positioned as an alternative to it.

Artificial Intelligence

Scale Computing makes strategic updates to its HyperCore software virtualization platform

September 16, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing makes strategic updates to its HyperCore software virtualization platform
Scale Computing has just made major upgrades to the Scale Computing HyperCore (SC//HyperCore) virtualization platform, which ramp up the power of enterprise virtualization while significantly reducing complexity and cost.

Certfications

Cohesity launches new partner program

August 8, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity launches new partner program
Cohesity’s major enhancements to its partner program is designed to streamline engagement and empowers partners to stimulate profitable growth, technical strength, and differentiation.

Channel Programs

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

February 12, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Channel Programs

StorMagic reviews VMware options with partners in light of Broadcom changes

February 8, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Channel Programs

Nutanix makes major enhancements to Elevate Partner Program

October 2, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Hyper-converged

StorMagic, HPE extend partnership around HPE ProLiant MicroServer

November 15, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Backup

 Polish backup company Storware partners with Scale Computing

September 12, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on  Polish backup company Storware partners with Scale Computing
The two companies have worked before in EMEA, but this expanded partnership will impact other geos, including North America.

Artificial Intelligence

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

August 30, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Hardware

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

April 18, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.