Pliops, which makes a differentiated hardware and software accelerator that is also a media enhancer, started selling direct to hyperscalers, but now is expanding into the enterprise, and looking to work with partners with established connections in this market.
New PowerScale solutions continue, but do not quite complete, the retirement of the Isilon brand.
Nebulon, which launched a year ago with server-embedded infrastructure software delivered as-a-service that competes against the big HCI players, has designed their program to make it easier for HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro partners to work with them.
The expansion of TruScale into a company-wide offering was part of a major series of announcements, that included the related Hitachi Brain AI service and the Project Unity wireless connectivity framework.
WDD is also emphasizing that OptiNAND is not another hybrid architecture, but a new type of technology that enhances the HDD with flash to improve the drive’s aerial density, performance and reliability.
The new ‘291T’ solution has 291 TB of NVMe storage, giving it 23% more density than any other competitive solution in the market today.
The acquired technology’s ability to expand the use cases around Lumada will also expand channel partners’ services opportunities.
Dell’s global channel chief Rola Dagher talked with ChannelBuzz about the state of the Dell channel today, and the priorities for the rest of the year ahead.
Channel veteran Bill Cordero takes over channel leadership at StorONE, as the company looks to expand its new channel with the aid of a newly-designed channel program.
Hitachi Vantara has been intensifying its channel focus this year, with a new portal, pricing tool, and eLearning modules, and partner satisfaction has increased as a result.
Some major gaming announcements will have implications for resellers and integrators who work that market, as will a new embedded flash platform for Universal Flash Storage 3.1, while a partnership with Percona around their MySQL Server will be of interest in the enterprise.
Hitachi is using its three-day event, which continues through Thursday, to outline its focus on data-driven strategies and how customers in multiple verticals are already benefitting from them.
The company’s Valence software is the first product of its Transcendent Abstracted Storage System architecture, and while it is formally launching today, it has been successfully selling for months through a 100% channel strategy.
NetApp will be making major changes to their channel program at the end of April 2022, and has announced what those changes will be, and the paths partners need to prepare to be ready for the new program.
The new offering is the first of what will be a family of Dell Technologies manufacturing edge solutions, while the upgraded one is a new version of the Dell EMC Streaming Data Platform.
The Rubrik Go Foundation Edition, and Rubrik Go Business Edition SKUs will appear on NetApp price lists starting May 17, providing multiple benefits to the companies’ field sales forces and joint channel partners.
The joint bundles, which come with five sizing options, all at fixed pricing, also carry a $5000 bonus for a VAR with each sale to a new customer.
Both the new OS 2.0 software download availability, and the PowerStore 500 ship date are June 10.
Federated Edge lets participating MSPs use space in data centres of MSPs outside their own region, to allow them to accept business that they previously had to decline because they had no ability to service it.
VAST still sells its technology through an appliance model, but now the customer purchases it directly from Avnet, which makes the hardware, giving the customer direct from the manufacturer pricing, although VAST says their channel strategy will not be impacted by this. .
