Hitachi Vantara has announced a new co-engineered solution with Cisco with Red Hat OpenShift, a co-engineered joint solution leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, which combines Cisco’s compute and networking systems with Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) arrays using Red Hat OpenShift container management tools.
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Hybrid cloud infrastructure vendor Hitachi Vantara launches new partnership with Virtana and its platform suite
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Cloud storage provider Backblaze ramps up Canadian presence with new Opti9 partnership
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Hitachi Vantara further expands Virtual Storage Platform One portfolio with block storage component
by Mark Cox •
Hitachi Vantara adds another component to its newish hybrid cloud platform, with yet another on the way.
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New strategic partnership with Nutanix highlights Dell channel initiatives
by Mark Cox •
The extended partnership with Nutanix, which Dell will formally announce at a later date, was accompanied in Dell’s new channel related moves by other initiatives like a new Dell AI Partner Focused Network, and the addition of client to server and storage for partner of record status.
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Hitachi Vantara launches Virtual Storage Platform One hybrid cloud platform
by Mark Cox •
In addition to the Virtual Storage Platform One launch, Hitachi Vantara has announced its inaugural Sustainability Report.
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VAST Data launches key new partnerships with NVIDIA and Super Micro
by Mark Cox •
Both partnerships expand AI capabilities by combining VAST’s software with NVIDIA and Super Micro’s hardware, with more such partnerships on the way.
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Startup Object First pleased with momentum for Veeam-focused backup appliance
by Mark Cox •
Object First’s Ootbi now has over 80 installations for Veeam environments, with six of them worth over $100,000, as they stress how their storage immutability and Zero Trust capabilities are effective weapons against ransomware.
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VMware end to free ESXi opens up new options from spurned customers and partners
by Mark Cox •
While these major changes are not good news for developers and SMBs, there are still options, from the cloud to smaller hypervisor vendors like Proxmox, which has an open source hypervisor that led storage vendor 45Drives to partner with them.
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Nexsan adds high end unified storage Unity NV6000 to data protection offerings
by Mark Cox •
Back on its own, following the bankruptcy of former parent company StorCentric last year, Nexsan adds a new high-end model with immutable backups and S3 object locking.
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Qumulo enhances elasticity, performance and audibility with rearchitected Scale Anywhere platform
by Mark Cox •
The new architecture disaggregates the storage from the compute, and is a key factor in both the much lower pricing and the greatly increased scalability.
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NetApp announces integration with the VMware Sovereign Cloud, and simplified data management for modern virtualized applications
by Mark Cox •
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.
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NetApp introduces ASA C-Series family with capacity flash for top performance at near disk cost
by Mark Cox •
Other enhancements to the NetApp storage portfolio include enhancements to NetApp Keystone Storage-as-a-Service.
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NetApp to launch new partner hub
by Mark Cox •
The digital portal allows partners to track deals and register opportunities, and while the previous program has something similar, NetApp’s channel chief says that this one is better.
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Big Data, Data Management, Security, Storage
NetApp CEO Kurian lays out vision at return of live NetApp INSIGHT event
by Mark Cox •
George Kurian explained NetApp’s broad strategy through which their customers can turn disruption into opportunity, through consolidating data management, treating data like the key product it is, and developing a modern data architecture.
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StorMagic introduces new Edge Control feature to manage SvSAN clusters globally
by Mark Cox •
The new feature, which is free in this initial release, will deliver the biggest benefit to larger enterprises, but will also be attractive to smaller companies at the edge, as well as to MSPs.
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Pure Storage commits to pay customers’ power and rack space costs as part of upgrades to Evergreen portfolio
by Mark Cox •
Other new offerings include Pure Protect, a new resilience and DRaaS product line and improvements to the service experience.
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Lightbits enhances channel-centric model with new partner program
by Mark Cox •
While the previous Go Purple partner program was more of a bare-bones effort, the new Luminary Partner Program is better attuned to the company’s Cloud First strategy, and more complete, although formal certifications won’t arrive till next year.
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Tintri looking to complete turnaround story with launch of two VMware-complementary solutions at VMware Explore
by Mark Cox •
Tintri has also switched to a 100% channel model, and is currently restructuring their channel program.
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Veeam-centric backup storage company Object First looks for new partners at VMware Explore
by Mark Cox •
Object First, created by Veeam’s two co-founders and run by former Webroot and Axcient CEO David Bennett, focuses on immutability and ransomware recovery, and as a year-old startup, is looking for more partners to get their message out to customers.
