Hyper-converged

Backup

Veeam looks on new Mine partnership with Nutanix as springboard for more appliance partnerships

May 10, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam looks on new Mine partnership with Nutanix as springboard for more appliance partnerships
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.

Cloud

Nutanix CEO Pandey outlines future vision through patterns of the past

May 9, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix CEO Pandey outlines future vision through patterns of the past
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.

Channel Programs

Nutanix increasing focus on joint field activity with channel partners

May 9, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix increasing focus on joint field activity with channel partners
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.

Backup

Nutanix enters hyperconverged secondary storage market with Nutanix Mine service

May 8, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix enters hyperconverged secondary storage market with Nutanix Mine service
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.

Backup

Arcserve adds support for Microsoft OneDrive and Nutanix AHV in new Unified Data Protection release

May 3, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve adds support for Microsoft OneDrive and Nutanix AHV in new Unified Data Protection release
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.

Hyper-converged

NEC, Scale Computing, collaborate on dense HCI solution targeted at SMBs

April 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on NEC, Scale Computing, collaborate on dense HCI solution targeted at SMBs
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.

Hyper-converged

Pivot3 sees major performance, value enhancements in newest Citrix Virtual Desktop integration

April 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 sees major performance, value enhancements in newest Citrix Virtual Desktop integration
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.

Hyper-converged

Edge HCI specialist StorMagic adds Dell EMC to list of strategic partners

April 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Edge HCI specialist StorMagic adds Dell EMC to list of strategic partners
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.

Cloud

HPE, Google Cloud launch partnership with two hybrid cloud validated designs

April 9, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE, Google Cloud launch partnership with two hybrid cloud validated designs
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.

Cloud

HPE, Nutanix sign major strategic partnership which provides different solutions to each company

April 9, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE, Nutanix sign major strategic partnership which provides different solutions to each company
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.