Partnerships

Partnerships

Atlantis Computing expands Citrix partnership, announces new one with Rancher Labs

October 25, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Atlantis Computing expands Citrix partnership, announces new one with Rancher Labs
The new Atlantis integration with Citrix brings its VDI infrastructure directly into Citrix management interfaces, while the new partnering with Rancher Labs integrates Atlantis’ management interface with theirs to better manage containers.

Data Centre

Nimble Storage sees huge opportunity in Lenovo partnership

October 17, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nimble Storage sees huge opportunity in Lenovo partnership
For Nimble, the Lenovo partnership massively expands their route to market, with a series of new appliances that combine the two companies’ technology, and which will go to market through Lenovo and its channel.

Channel Programs

Kingston ON-based Stantive building out its own channel for Salesforce-based CMS solution

October 7, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kingston ON-based Stantive building out its own channel for Salesforce-based CMS solution
Stantive, which had a long relationship with Salesforce as a customer before becoming a business partner during the past decade, is now building out its own channel for its CMS solution and seeing strong results.

Partnerships

Hyper-converged secondary storage vendor Cohesity expands channels with Cisco partnership

October 6, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hyper-converged secondary storage vendor Cohesity expands channels with Cisco partnership
Validating Cohesity software on the Cisco UCS platform adds another route to market in addition to their own partners, and the Cisco deal is unlikely to be the last.

Partnerships

Scale Computing, Workspot collaborate on simple, integrated SMB VDI solution

October 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing, Workspot collaborate on simple, integrated SMB VDI solution
Both Scale and Workspot extend their partnering strategies to produce a simple turnkey VDI solution well timed with Citrix’s end of lifing of its VDI-in-a-Box offering.

Partnerships

Scale Computing adds BI capability for SMBs with Information Builders partnership

September 20, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing adds BI capability for SMBs with Information Builders partnership
The Information Builders partnership is the first in a strategy designed to provide Scale partners with additional software services, turning their hardware platform into an App Store of sorts.

Networking

Silver Peak enters SD-WAN service provider market with Masergy partnership

September 19, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Silver Peak enters SD-WAN service provider market with Masergy partnership
Silver Peak also announces the hire of a team of executives to build up the service provide business, which will be expanded with other partnerships.

Partnerships

Next-gen VDI vendor Workspot sees new HPE partnership as match made in heaven

June 9, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Next-gen VDI vendor Workspot sees new HPE partnership as match made in heaven
Workspot makes a native cloud-based VDI solution which is simple to install and use. Hyper-converged vendors are one of their routes to market, and this new agreement makes available a reference configuration for Workspot VDI on the HPE HyperConverged 380.

Partnerships

Atlantis Computing, Citrix form strategic alliance around hyper-converged

May 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Atlantis Computing, Citrix form strategic alliance around hyper-converged
The two companies have been long-time partners around VDI, but this extension of their relationship makes a very low cost hyper-converged offering, which combines Atlantis’ hyper-converged infrastructure with the full Xen stack, available to any certified Citrix partner.

Cloud

Citrix, Microsoft announce major expansion of long-term partnership

May 25, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix, Microsoft announce major expansion of long-term partnership
Key elements include Azure becoming Citrix’s preferred cloud platform, and Microsoft Skype for Business now being optimized for the Citrix VDI environment, the only one to receive this preferred treatment.