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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cloud

Dell unveils new edge, telecom solutions

October 13, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell unveils new edge, telecom solutions
The announcements being made today at this year’s Dell Summit all revolve around the company’s newer edge and telecom businesses.

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Backup

Arcserve rolls out new hyperconverged N-series through Nutanix partnership

August 10, 2021 Mark Cox 1
The new N-series, which also incorporates Sophos cybersecurity technology, is aimed at customers in the high midmarket and in the enterprise.

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Hyper-converged

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

July 9, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

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Hyper-converged

StorMagic, Hivecell partner on first HCI PaaS for the Edge

June 30, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

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Channel Programs

Nutanix expands Elevate Partner Program with new Service Provider tier

June 9, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

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Backup

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

June 7, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

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Hyper-converged

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

June 2, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

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Hyper-converged

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

March 30, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

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Hyper-converged

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

March 30, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

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Hyper-converged

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

March 4, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

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