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Backup

Veritas looks to cancel competitor HCI deployments in NetBackup environments by adding Flex Scale deployment option

January 26, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas looks to cancel competitor HCI deployments in NetBackup environments by adding Flex Scale deployment option
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.

Cloud

New Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami to focus on execution as company transforms from HCI provider to HCI provider

December 10, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami to focus on execution as company transforms from HCI provider to HCI provider
Nutanix has announced the appointment of Rajiv Ramaswami as President, CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. He succeeds co-founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey, who had announced in August he would retire once
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StorMagic expands HPE relationship with Edgeline validation

November 23, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorMagic expands HPE relationship with Edgeline validation
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

Cloud

StorMagic deepens cloud play for SvKMS encryption with major public cloud integrations

November 12, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorMagic deepens cloud play for SvKMS encryption with major public cloud integrations
StorMagic expands the cloud presence for the encryption key management offering it acquired earlier this year, which broadens opportunities for their channel partners.

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Hitachi Vantara adds new automation, scalability and channel bundles to HCI portfolio

September 23, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara adds new automation, scalability and channel bundles to HCI portfolio
The Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) 4.0 release makes significant enhances to Hitachi UCP Advisor, and adds important new SAP and VMware certifications.

Cloud

Nutanix, Microsoft partner around hybrid solution using Nutanix Clusters on Azure

September 8, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix, Microsoft partner around hybrid solution using Nutanix Clusters on Azure
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.

Channel Programs

Nutanix launches simpler, competency-based Elevate partner program

September 8, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix launches simpler, competency-based Elevate partner program
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.

Cloud

Nutanix stresses Run Better, Run Faster themes with new software announcements

September 8, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix stresses Run Better, Run Faster themes with new software announcements
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.

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Lenovo DCG announces new HCI solutions around Nutanix, Microsoft, VMware and Diamanti partnerships

September 3, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo DCG announces new HCI solutions around Nutanix, Microsoft, VMware and Diamanti partnerships
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.

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Pivot3 further expands HCI automation to make life easier for mission-critical video admins

July 29, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 further expands HCI automation to make life easier for mission-critical video admins
The new enhancements, upgrading Pivot3’s Intelligence Engine to include both a system-level upgrade orchestration and a health and a best practices analyzer, are targeted at the video security market that makes up much of Pivot3’a business.