The secret sauce of StorONE is software that took six years to engineer, and which produces very low prices by supporting all types of disks, all protocols and storage services in a single layer.
The enhancement of an existing relationship between the two companies sees the jointly engineered appliance get a new unified management interface.
Dell EMC has announced its thresholds and tiers for 2018, and while there are some changes from the previous system, the biggest, by far, is the emphasis on services for tier eligibility, not just for rebates.
The provision of new object storage, compute and marketplace services to developers is part of a continuing Nutanix strategy to elevate itself from providing HCI infrastructure to providing the whole stack.
Other new elements, which will be formally announced next week, include an early trial for AFS backup and more efficient support for ROBO environments.
The big breakthrough for Panasas here is the new ASD-100 disaggregated Director Blade, which allows metadata to be accessed twice as fast as the previous product generation.
Dell EMC has made strengthening its position in midrange storage a priority, and in addition to the new product upgrades has also introduced a customer satisfaction guarantee.
SwiftStack adds some significant capabilities around public cloud archiving, synchronization, and multi-region clusters – and indicates that much bigger news will be coming in a month.
While Canadian customers have a generally accurate reputation for being late technology adopters, Dell EMC execs at last week’s Toronto forum said that they are seeing movement towards newer Dell Technologies offerings.
The new partnership is the logical effect of both the initiative by Scale to deepen its enterprise penetration and their recent partnership with Google.
In addition to covering both Canada and the U.S., the new Pivot3 deal covers both Arrow’s distribution [ECS] and contract marketing [AIS] businesses.
Quantum’s new Quantum NOW program is looking to incent reps to bring in new business, particularly in unstructured data and archiving, with higher than usual SPIFs.
Version 6 of Hitachi Data Instance Director massively increases scalability, and adds role-based access controls and a new interface. Exposing the system with REST API will, however, likely be the factor that makes it more attractive to Hitachi partners.
While Nexsan’s new Unity unified storage has garnered the media attention, its recently updated E Series P continues to provide most of their revenues.
Brent Allen, Pure Storage’s Canadian country manager, was at the Pure//Live event and discussed the company’s progress in Canada with ChannelBuzz.
The deal is aimed at strengthening Veeam in the enterprise, and NetApp in the midmarket and SMB, and follows up several other recent Veeam resale partnerships.
NetApp has announced upgrades to key software products that make up their Data Fabric, including ONTAP 9.3.
Komprise adds full lifecycle management abilities, as well as the ability to confine defined data to make it invisible without deleting it, and the ability to build custom queries.
The first-ever NetApp HCI solution, announced in June, will be available in October, and that, rather than the shinier and newer announcements at INSIGHT, was what had solution providers buzzing.
Elio is a chatbot that provides first level technical support using IBM Watson technology. NetApp has also enhanced their ActiveIQ cloud-based analytics.
