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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.

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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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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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.

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.

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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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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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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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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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.