The new product, sold only through the channel and available as an Express Pack, isn’t bringing NetApp down into the SMB space, but is rather aimed at customers with predictable environments.
HPE enhances six of their SMB solutions, to provide more customer choice and provide additional performance and capacity.
Wasabi is looking for Pax8 to significantly broaden their pool of quality partners, including through Pax8’s relationship with Veeam and with the RMM/PSA providers.
Datrium has also rebranded their platform from DVX to Automatrix, with the logic being that the platform now has all its core components, with DVX being just one, the primary storage.
The new SwiftStack Software Appliance has a added a 1click Application Profile for Veeam to simplify object storage for Veeam Cloud Tier. It is the second such Application Profile for SwifStack, following another one with Splunk announced earlier this month.
FileShadow, which has key strategic partnerships with IBM and Google, has added a B2B component to their business to provide thin provisioned storage for VDI and DaaS systems.
After most of the first day announcements focused on things which spanned multiple elements of the Dell Technologies portfolio, and beyond, the second day focused on core product enhancements. Here are some of them.
StorONE, which offers low-cost storage that works with any protocol or use case, came to market initially through a limited channel, and is now broadening out further with distribution.
Cloudian has partnered with large service providers for years, but has established a new program for smaller MSPs, and is looking for those with some kind of vertical or other focus that differentiate them from generalists.
The designs, one around HPE SimpliVity and the other a ProLiant/Nimble combination, run in the GKE environment, and will be available both through a standard reference architecture and through HPE’s GreenLake consumption-based as-a-service offering.
Compuverde has been around for a decade, and their mature technology will be integrated into Pure’s FlashArray offering, so that it can offer fully unified protocols, data services, and unified cloud management.
IBM is making a broad series of storage announcements today at an event in Rome, with completion of the Storwize refresh with the V5000 series, including new NVMe models, being the highlight.
Violin’s new partner program formally brings together the old Violin channel with the one newly acquired from X-IO. It is intended to do a lot more than that, however.
In addition to these new hyperconverged models produced with partners NVIDIA and Mellanox, Pure Storage announced FlashStack for AI, an AI-optimized version of their Cisco-focused converged offering.
Formulus Black is a software rethinking of technoloigy originally developed by its predecessor company, Symbolic IO, designed to make DRAM non-volatile, inexpensive and usable for storage.
CTERA’s Edge X series weds the CTERA global file system with the HPE SimpliVity enterprise-grade hyperconverged platform
Aparavi, which came out of stealth a year ago, plays in the multi-cloud data management space.
Cohesity hopes to outgrow its new offices in the GTA, which will be filled both with new engineers for the company’s R&D operations, and new sales people working with the partners who are their sole route to market.
Datrium moves from their original licensing model to a new framework designed to provide customers with maximum portability and flexibility.
The new Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure will go to market through a select number of channel partners, building on the channel focus of the recent VSP Pro solutions.
