Reference architectures around the synergies between Intel Optane persistent memory and Alluxio’s open source data orchestration software for the cloud using in-memory cache will initially sell through the AWS and GCP marketplaces. A rollout to a specialized integrator channel, and to Azure will happen during 2020.
Hitachi Vantara’s new VSP model for the broader enterprise market, together with a revamped AIOPs management system and a new EverFlex financing package, hit the Canadian market as the company looks to expand its channel business here.
Garry Olah, who took over as CEO late last year, has restructured the company’s focus and Go-to-Market strategy, so that the name change to Buurst is but a complementary aspect to the story.
The Lenovo ThinkAgile MX1021 is a turnkey HCI appliance designed around the Microsoft Azure Stack for edge use cases, while the ThinkSystem DM7100 is an NVMe-powered unified storage array whose tiering capabilities are well suited to hybrid cloud strategies.
Scale has seen their initial partnership with Acronis around Acronis Backup to be a major competitive displacement advantage for partners, and are looking to extend that further with the Acronis cloud backup solution.
Datadobi’s new release adds the ability to document chain of custody for compliance and legal purposes to DobiMigrate Version 5.8, a differentiator that has been absent before, because it was hard.
Data migration is a secondary feature of Komprise, which primarily moves data for archiving, but its new Elastic Data Migration capability provides a highly parallelized capability that is ideal for WAN migrations, and should increase that use case.
Diamanti adds self-encrypting drives for security, asynchronous replication for availability, next generation I/O offload cards, and a new hardware offering with new Intel processors.
Today, with Rancher 2.4, the company is scaling up to go from managing a few dozen clusters in the very recent past, to 2000 today, and to a million clusters or more looking forward, as IoT edge use cases ramp up demand.
Multi-cluster support is new in the 2.0 release, as is support for nodes with more capacity, with the result being stronger ability to support more Big Data applications.
FalconStor’s new StorSafe offering leverages containerization with their VTL technology to produce an archiving solution aimed mainly at very long term retention.
Rogers sees strong parallels between ServiceNow and Rubrik in terms of their capability to expand successfully from a single product to a broad platform, and thinks the tactics ServiceNow used successfully to ramp up will port well to Rubrik.
NetApp and Talon were already strategic partners, but the acquisition and integration of Talon’s technology into NetApp Cloud Volumes will expose it to a much broader audience than the large enterprises who have been buying it.
With HPE having end-of-lifed their StoreVirtual family, StorMagic has been selected as a replacement for the HPE StoreVirtual VSA in edge deployments where HPE SimpliVity would be overkill.
Panzura CSP partners will be the key Go-to-Market for the newly optimized service, which leverages Intel’s new memory technology to produce a 3-5x performance increase.
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.
