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Scale Computing targets new customers with Resilience offering for home-based workforce

July 16, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing targets new customers with Resilience offering for home-based workforce
The new offering is a bundle of existing components, adding Acronis Backup and a choice of partner VDI offerings to the Scale HC3 platform, but it is purpose-built for organizations looking to protect home-based workforces.

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Dell unveils new rugged VXRail D series for edge environments

June 22, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell unveils new rugged VXRail D series for edge environments
Dell also announces its first AMD-powered VxRail offering, as well as some new capabilities based on the most recent announcements to the VxRail HCI System software.

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Pivot3 combines Lenovo ThinkSystem SR655 server with AMD Rome chips in powerful new video solution

May 19, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 combines Lenovo ThinkSystem SR655 server with AMD Rome chips in powerful new video solution
While the 2nd generation AMD EPYC processors contribute new efficiencies, the big breakthrough here is the new Lenovo servers delivering dual socket performance with a single socket, as well as density and versatility enhancements.

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Scale Computing introduces high performance, all-NVME appliance for performance intensive use cases

May 14, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing introduces high performance, all-NVME appliance for performance intensive use cases
Edge-focused Scale isn’t charging into the data centre market here, but rather responding to customer requests for an offering that can handle use cases like high density VDI deployments.

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StorMagic expands into encryption key management by acquiring B.C.-based KeyNexus

April 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorMagic expands into encryption key management by acquiring B.C.-based KeyNexus
Jeff MacMillan, founder and CEO of Victoria-based KeyNexus, becomes StorMagic’s CTO, with responsibility for the whole company’s technology strategy.

Cloud

Lenovo adds new infrastructure for Microsoft Azure environments

April 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo adds new infrastructure for Microsoft Azure environments
The Lenovo ThinkAgile MX1021 is a turnkey HCI appliance designed around the Microsoft Azure Stack for edge use cases, while the ThinkSystem DM7100 is an NVMe-powered unified storage array whose tiering capabilities are well suited to hybrid cloud strategies.

Backup

Scale Computing expands Acronis backup partnership to Cloud Storage

April 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing expands Acronis backup partnership to Cloud Storage
Scale has seen their initial partnership with Acronis around Acronis Backup to be a major competitive displacement advantage for partners, and are looking to extend that further with the Acronis cloud backup solution.

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Nutanix scales up Nutanix Objects to support more Big Data workloads

March 19, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix scales up Nutanix Objects to support more Big Data workloads
Multi-cluster support is new in the 2.0 release, as is support for nodes with more capacity, with the result being stronger ability to support more Big Data applications.

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StorMagic enters HPE Complete program as StoreVirtual replacement

March 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorMagic enters HPE Complete program as StoreVirtual replacement
With HPE having end-of-lifed their StoreVirtual family, StorMagic has been selected as a replacement for the HPE StoreVirtual VSA in edge deployments where HPE SimpliVity would be overkill.

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Cohesity launches ROBO appliance solution for the enterprise edge

February 19, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity launches ROBO appliance solution for the enterprise edge
The new Cohesity solution for ROBO is specifically designed for either HPE or Cisco servers, and those vendors and their joint channel partners with Cohesity are the Go-to-Market for this.