Datadobi responds to partner requests for a version of their solution designed for less complex sales, which is likely to strengthen their market presence outside of the enterprise as well as increase the number of partners.
The integration from the new partnership will both reduce customer costs and increase partner profitability, and in addition to the integration, there is also a Go-To-Market component.
VAST Data’s Universal Storage system, which puts all types of data on a single, easily managed flash tier, has been enhanced with a new Container Storage Interface that responds to customer demand for this capability.
The startup is focusing on North America out of the gate, and while they will initially sell direct until they build up some traction, they see their solution as idea for cloud-focused system integrators.
Coincident with the announcement of Barnes’ official appointment, Hammerspace announces their first channel partner program.
Both the Panzura Freedom cloud file services and Vizion.ai cloud data management and analytics service are now in the AWS Marketplace, which the company thinks will help channel partners as Panzura completes their transition to a 100% channel-led model.
Marcel Escorcio talks with ChannelBuzz about the major new additions to the Hitachi Vantara lineup announced at NEXT, and their implications for Canadian partners.
WekaIO, which today is also announcing a first-place finish for performance in the IO-500 Challenge, is looking to its new program’s enablement resources to drive partner expansion in specific verticals.
vFilo’s file and object capabilities complement DataCore’s SANsymphony block storage, and while their interfaces are separate at the moment, the plan is to integrate them.
The cloud integration is a beta that enables easy migration between S3 and NetApp StorageGrid, while the on-prem one extends Komprise’s new Deep analytics to NetApp CloudVolumes ONTAP.
At an event dominated by NetApp’s Keystone model to extend their data fabric strategy, the company did make some important product announcements. But if you blinked, you may have missed them.
Both the enhancements to the core platform and services around it have a strong emphasis on increasing performance and AI at the edge.
Keystone is a strategy around providing a seamless public cloud experience across public and private clouds and on-prem data centres, which contains attached offerings and services.
The partnership with SwiftStack extends InfiniteIO’s core value proposition of applying network deep packet inspection to NFS traffic, to identify and offload metadata requests and accelerate NAS performance.
Aparavi File Protect & Insight is being sold as a separate solution from their original Active Archive, because the use cases are so fundamentally different.
Dell’s channel delivered good performance numbers in their now-completed Q2, but the big news for the channel in the quarter may be a pair of management changes at Dell that are related to larger organizational restructuring.
At their GO 2019 event, Commvault laid out further details about their vision for their Hedvig software-defined storage acquisition, as well as its roadmap going forward.
Hitachi Vantara’s services portfolio and as-a-services capabilities are not new, but they are being significantly expanded, with a key being the integration of REAN Cloud into the portfolio.
Supermicro also wants partners to make more use of Centres of Excellence to demonstrate POCs to customers.
At an event that emphasized the ability of Hitachi Vantara’s new solution set to deliver end-to-end performance for the DataOps economy, the most exciting new product of the show was a box. But it’s a very special box.
