This is Pure’s first out-of-the box option around a specific use case for Azure Cloud as they move beyond general purpose hybrid storage.
Cloud, Storage
Pure Storage, Microsoft expands strategic partnership around Azure VMware Solution
by Mark Cox •
Storage
Channel Communities, Storage
Canadian storage vendor 45Drives to host first annual Storage Summit in Sydney N.S.
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Data Centre, Storage
Nutanix targets Generative AI newcomer market with Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Storage
VAST Data turns its technology to AI with announcement of Thinking Machine
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Storage
NetApp’s new Partner Sphere Partner Program goes live
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Artificial Intelligence, Servers, Storage
Lenovo enhances and refreshes storage and server solutions
by Mark Cox •
These new data management solutions include new Storage Arrays that make it easier for organizations to enable AI workloads.
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Backup, Partnerships, Storage
VAST Data announces partnership with Commvault at HPE Discover
by Mark Cox •
The extended partnership with Commvault follows up a major one with HPE early last year.
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Storage
Pure Storage goes deeper into data centre with expanded Pure//E family, while also strengthening FlashArray//X and FlashArray//C
by Mark Cox •
The FlashArray//X and FlashArray//C boast a 40% performance increase, while the FlashArray//E reaches the lowest end of the datacentre market, giving Pure and their partners an end-to-end offering.
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As-a-Service, Storage
Pure CEO Giancarlo lays out vision to leave disk in the dust
by Mark Cox •
Giancarlo emphasized that the long-awaited time has finally arrived when flash is now price-competitive with HDDs in the lower reaches of the data centre, and that Pure in particular enjoys competitive advantages in the market that will let them take advantage of this opportunity to the fullest.
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As-a-Service, Channel Programs, Storage
Pure exhorts partners to leverage expanded portfolio and expand services capabilities
by Mark Cox •
With Pure’s portfolio expanded down to the lower reaches of the data centre, and flash reaching that long-sought price parity in that environment, both Pure and their partners think the potential for significant growth has arrived.
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Backup, Security, Storage
Pure Storage strengthens data resiliency with new ransomware SLA guarantee, new data protection assessment and anomaly detection capabilities.
by Mark Cox •
The new SLA guarantee is the first SLA that customers will have to purchase rather than get free as part of Evergreen, but it provides significant benefits on getting the customer new clean hardware for recovery, assisted by a Pure engineer onsite.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Storage
CTERA reworks channel program to better prepare partners for changing cloud file services market.
by Mark Cox •
CTERA has added a third tier to their channel program to better differentiate and reward their most productive channel partners, and added new support to make them more efficient sellers.
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Backup, Storage
Cobalt Iron strengthens NAS backup with enhancements to their Compass NAS Protector
by Mark Cox •
The big one for many users will likely be the full integration of NAS with other backup types, which will save time and money on administration costs.
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Artificial Intelligence, As-a-Service, Channel Programs, Cloud, Edge, Partnerships, Security, Storage
Dell looks to expand partner services with Project Harmony
by Mark Cox •
Project Harmony was the one new initiative specifically for partners announced at this year’s Dell Technologies World, within the context of a news-rich event which will create many other partner opportunities.
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As-a-Service, Backup, Cloud, Partnerships, Storage
Dell expands APEX portfolio with major new offerings and partnerships
by Mark Cox •
Dell makes some major announcements around their as-a-service portfolio, including bringing their Project Alpine previews from last year out as projects, in what they are saying brings the whole APEX strategy to fruition.
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Storage
New NetApp All-Flash SAN Array A-series highly new storage announcements
by Mark Cox •
The block storage-focused A-series announcement is complemented by others updating their StorageGrid software and adding a new StorageGrid appliance, the extension of their ONTAP One software, a new version of their ONTAP software, and a Ransomware Recovery Guarantee.
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Channel Programs, Software, Storage
Panasas reorients growth strategy around new product and channel strategies
by Mark Cox •
Panasas has substantially evolved their portfolio in the last few years to become much more of a software company, and is working on skilling up their channel further to sell the new solutions.
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Software, Storage
Dell announces major security, efficiency improvements to PowerStore software
by Mark Cox •
Other storage families in the Dell portfolio are also announcing some upgrades, but PowerStore is the major one this time around.
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Storage
Pure Storage announces GA of next-gen native block and file services with File Services for FlashArray
by Mark Cox •
While unified block and file storage systems have been around for some time, Pure says that they bolt management onto one primary system, whereas their new service manages blocks, files and VMs on an equal plane, allowing admins to have the native benefits of all.
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New Scality CRO Peter Brennan looks to further leverage channel to take sales to next level
by Mark Cox •
Brennan sees the channel as critical to accelerating the success of their new midmarket-focused Artesca solution, and thinks some things can be done to the Go-to-Market generally which will pour more gas on the fire.
