Hitachi Vantara and Virtana have announced a new collaboration with AI-powered monitoring and observability vendor Virtana, which will integrate Virtana’s suite with the Hitachi Vantara EverFlex infrastructure-as-a-service offering.
Backblaze will leverage the new partnership to open its first data region in Canada, which will be based in Toronto, service the whole country, and become available in the first quarter of 2025.
The expanded relationship between the two long-time partners brings NTT DATA’s Managed Extended Detection Response Service onto the Palo Alto Networks XSIAM Cortex platform, to add additional AI capabilities to threat monitoring, detection and rapid response.
Partners are engaging in significant changes to their business models to improve their capability to deliver new digitally-focused services that partners today are increasingly demanding.
NVIDIA makes scores of partnerships with other vendors, but the ones that were just announced at the HPE Discover event were of supreme importance for both companies heading forward.
The two new Accelerators cover the edge and networking, joining an existing one around AI, while the Activation Zones, which are different from, but highly complementary to the Accelerators, are around Networking, Intelligent Edge, and Manufacturing.
Both partnerships expand AI capabilities by combining VAST’s software with NVIDIA and Super Micro’s hardware, with more such partnerships on the way.
Sage’s new product portfolio and strategy had attendees saying this was the most exciting transform in their memory.
The new strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to enable AI-powered solutions for SMBs includes a launch of Sage Earth on the AWS Marketplace will kick off in a few weeks in the UK and Ireland, but other geos, including North America, will have a bit of a wait – like 18 months.
Ottawa’s Tehama Technologies, which has was recently restructured under the leadership of multiple senior executives from the company, sees the new partnership with Microsoft as critical in the evolution of their strategy going forward.
HYCU’s new offering utilizes Claude, Anthropics’s AI assistant, to integrate AI into the HYCU backup platform.
The new joint solution is designed as a turnkey solution for enterprises who don’t want to develop their own AI models.
The joint solution will be sold by Fujitsu and by channel members certified by all three vendors.
The Sovereign Cloud integration brings the VMware compliance technology to enterprise storage, while the modernization of APIs between ONTAP and VMware vSphere improves the scalability and effectiveness of VMware’s VVols architecture.
The big news on the cloud front included the new version of VMware Data Services Manager, and the 5.1 version of VMware Cloud Foundation.
VMware has long had a large GSI business but since early 2022 they have been working hard to deepen that, moving beyond determining value by services revenue, and getting more involved with GSI offerings.
The new solutions involve a joint Generative AI validated design and Dell Professional Services in collaboration with NVIDIA, all of which are also available through channel partners.
At Splunk’s Global Partner Summit Monday, the company made several announcements of special relevance to partners, including OT-focused Splunk Edge Hub, the launch of Splunk on Azure Marketplace, and a major extension of their partnership with SAP.
The extended partnership with Commvault follows up a major one with HPE early last year.
HPE’s emphasis on AI going forward was good news for Canonical, which is already strong in the area.
