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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Multi-cloud has become one of VMware’s top focus areas, and the new and enhanced offerings include vSAN Max, which allows storage to be disaggregated and scale independently from compute, as well as new multi-cloud virtual private clouds for storage and networking.
The event, which is being held from August 24-26 in and around Sydney, the largest town on Cape Breton Island, will bring together storage thought leaders, with a heavy emphasis on the YouTube world, and is open to the public.
The new offering adds an Opinionated AI stack and related services to Nutanix’s infrastructure and storage stacks, and the company believes it will find a good reception from the SMB to the enterprise.
The VAST DataStore, VAST DataBase and DataBase Engine combine to deliver on VAST’s long term plan of utilizing their storage technology for deep learning as well.
Last fall NetApp announced its new program, which they term an extension of the previous Unified Partner Program rather than a major overhaul of it, and after giving partners a suitable time to prepare for the new program, it is now operational.