Storage

HPE beefs up unified private cloud portfolio portfolio powered by HPE Morpheus Software.

HPE is redefining the full-stack private cloud through HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, and made new storage announcements and guarantees as well.

Channel strategy helps drive strong growth of cloud storage company Backblaze

Backblaze’s CEO goes beyond the numbers in the company’s latest financial report to examine how the channel plays a key part in their Go-to-Market strategy.

Hitachi Vantara, Cisco and Red Hat announce new co-engineered solution

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.

Hybrid cloud infrastructure vendor Hitachi Vantara launches new partnership with Virtana and its platform suite 

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.

Cloud storage provider Backblaze ramps up Canadian presence with new Opti9 partnership

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.

New strategic partnership with Nutanix highlights Dell channel initiatives

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.

VAST Data launches key new partnerships with NVIDIA and Super Micro

Both partnerships expand AI capabilities by combining VAST’s software with NVIDIA and Super Micro’s hardware, with more such partnerships on the way.

Startup Object First pleased with momentum for Veeam-focused backup appliance

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.

VMware end to free ESXi opens up new options from spurned customers and partners

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.

Nexsan adds high end unified storage Unity NV6000 to data protection offerings

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.

Qumulo enhances elasticity, performance and audibility with rearchitected Scale Anywhere platform

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.

NetApp announces integration with the VMware Sovereign Cloud, and simplified data management for modern virtualized applications 

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.

NetApp introduces ASA C-Series family with capacity flash for top performance at near disk cost

NetApp to launch new partner hub

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.

NetApp CEO Kurian lays out vision at return of live NetApp INSIGHT event

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.

StorMagic introduces new Edge Control feature to manage SvSAN clusters globally

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.

Pure Storage commits to pay customers’ power and rack space costs as part of upgrades to Evergreen portfolio

Other new offerings include Pure Protect, a new resilience and DRaaS product line and improvements to the service experience.

Lightbits enhances channel-centric model with new partner program

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.