Pivot3’s heavy video surveillance business means they have a rough balance of IT and OT partners, and the new program has a greater focus on teaching both to speak the other’s language.
Hyper-converged
Hyper-converged, Partnerships
StorMagic expands ecosystem with HPE validations
by Mark Cox •
StorMagic extends its ecosystem of large server vendor partners with HPE, although this one, unlike others with Lenovo, Dell and Cisco, is a technology integration rather than a Go-to-Market mechanism.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Data Centre, Hyper-converged
New Nutanix North American channel chief pledges more emphasis on distribution
by Mark Cox •
Christian Alvarez, who comes over from Juniper where he was Global Channel Chief, also pledges a focus on simplicity, and to do a good job of listening to partners.
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Scale Computing looks to get larger deals by going smaller with single processor HE500 series
by Mark Cox •
The new model, designed for a single processor Lenovo SR250 server, is aimed at chains with very small deployments which typically have been using a PC at these remote sites.
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Hyper-converged, Security
StorMagic adds key management, KVM hypervisor support to HCI platform
by Mark Cox •
Both the new StorSecure Encryption and Key Management capability, which removes the need for third party key management products, and the KVM support significantly lower the total cost of a StorMagic deployment, an important consideration considering most of their deployments are small ones.
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Backup, Hyper-converged
Commvault optimizes larger incremental backups with Nutanix Files 3.5 integration
by Mark Cox •
A major innovation in Nutanix Files 3.5 is support for the new CFT incremental backup capability, something that Commvault is the first data protection vendor to support.
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Cloud, Hyper-converged
Nutanix adds new hybrid cloud capabilities with Xi Clusters and Xi Frame
by Mark Cox •
Other Xi services seeing significant new feature enhancements are IoT, Era and Leap.
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Backup, Hyper-converged
HYCU adds new Nutanix support functionality in HYCU for Nutanix v4.0
by Mark Cox •
The big news, early support for Nutanix Mine, comes later this year, but other new capabilities kick in right away.
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Hyper-converged, Solution Provider News
Edmonton partner Reliant Technologies happy with all-in bet on Nutanix
by Mark Cox •
Reliant Technologies Solutions Group talked with ChannelBuzz about the development of their Nutanix business and their experience at last week’s .NEXT event.
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Backup, Hyper-converged
Veeam looks on new Mine partnership with Nutanix as springboard for more appliance partnerships
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix announced their new Mine backup-as-a-service offering, with Veeam as the design partner, and with both companies looking to use it to enhance their place at the centre of their own ecosystems.
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Cloud, Hyper-converged
Nutanix CEO Pandey outlines future vision through patterns of the past
by Mark Cox •
The Nutanix CEO laid out the trajectory for the company’s future going forward, by emphasizing how it fits into the decisions they have made in the past that built Nutanix to its present point.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Hyper-converged
Nutanix increasing focus on joint field activity with channel partners
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix is emphasizing consistency in overall policy following senior personnel changes, but indicated that joint field interaction between partners and Nutanix personnel is being increased, with new channel resources also being added.
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Backup, Cloud, Hyper-converged
Nutanix enters hyperconverged secondary storage market with Nutanix Mine service
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix Mine provides backup-as-a-service, extending the company’s recent services focus, in a strategy that it says will enhance other third-party backup providers and not compete with them.
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Backup, Hyper-converged
Arcserve adds support for Microsoft OneDrive and Nutanix AHV in new Unified Data Protection release
by Mark Cox •
Third-party backup is still present in only a small number of Office 365 deployments, and Arcserve believes that their rounding out the core backup requirements with OneDrive will help them expand that.
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NEC, Scale Computing, collaborate on dense HCI solution targeted at SMBs
by Mark Cox •
The new OEM relationship will see NEC market and sell the solution, which integrates Scale’s HC3 software with NEC’s D120h Express 5800 high-density server.
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Hyper-converged, Virtualization
Pivot3 sees major performance, value enhancements in newest Citrix Virtual Desktop integration
by Mark Cox •
Pivot3 and Citrix have been partnered around a joint solution here for years, but the Pivot3 software now provides policy-based intelligence and much greater density.
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Hyper-converged, Partnerships
Edge HCI specialist StorMagic adds Dell EMC to list of strategic partners
by Mark Cox •
The new partnership with Dell EMC joins existing ones with Cisco and Lenovo – and will be joined later this spring with another StorMagic partnership with another big server vendor.
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Cloud, Hyper-converged, Storage
HPE, Google Cloud launch partnership with two hybrid cloud validated designs
by Mark Cox •
The designs, one around HPE SimpliVity and the other a ProLiant/Nimble combination, run in the GKE environment, and will be available both through a standard reference architecture and through HPE’s GreenLake consumption-based as-a-service offering.
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Cloud, Hyper-converged
HPE, Nutanix sign major strategic partnership which provides different solutions to each company
by Mark Cox •
HPE adds Nutanix and its free AHV hypervisor to their HPE GreenLake consumption-based service, while Nutanix’s channel gets to sell an integrated appliance which combines HPE servers with Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software.
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Hyper-converged, Internet of Things
Schneider Electric, Cisco, extend partnership around APC power solutions to Cisco HyperFlex HCI
by Mark Cox •
Thirteen reference architectures covering what the companies believe will provide optimal coverage of the market from SMB through the enterprise will be available to joint channel partners.
