HTBASE, a Toronto-area startup that is in the process of moving its main offices down to the Valley, has inked what for them is a huge statement of validation, partnering with Dell EMC.
Veritas new Integrated Classification Engine, designed to address broad regulatory legislation like the GDPR, will be available quickly on two governance solutions, and over time will be extended to all their products.
The Cloudian Data Management Partners Program launches with four partners out of the gate.
NetApp’s channel transformation includes the Right Touch Model, introduced for its new fiscal year, designed to better balance NetApp channel resources with its internal sales team.
Connolly acknowledges he will need to work hard to assure Dell EMC Canada customers, partners and staff that a guy coming from the EMC side of the house gets the commercial business, which is mainly legacy Dell.
The new offerings are more powerful than the appliances Scale has offered before, but they aren’t looking to move upmarket, just satisfy the demand of storage-hungry SMBs and midmarket customers.
WekaIO has emerged from stealth with a channel-friendly parallel scale- out file storage solution that uses the compute layer to eliminate external storage devices.
Object storage vendor Cloudian has close strategic partnerships with several other vendors who touch different parts of the storage space, and their channel partners tend to be ones who work with those vendors.
The cloud services have the same OS as Nutanix’s on-prem software, which provides major benefits for customers – and significant new opportunities for partners.
NVMe technology priced for the mass market is very new, and Tegile thinks it has a differentiation by integrating this capability within its flagship array, rather than having it as a separate platform.
The second stage of the NetApp transformation strategy emphasizes expanding their market to buyers beyond traditional storage and infrastructure decision makers, and they think FlexPod SF will help them there.
New support for 32Gb Fibre Channel Series Appliances and new 40Gb Ethernet Series Appliances help to more than double TDE’s performance capability.
Catalogic, which makes ‘in place’ copy data management software, had strong results at last week’s Pure Accelerate event.
In addition to a three tier program for service providers, Pure Storage is adjusting how its internal sales people are compensated to remove what service providers believed was a tendency to favor working with traditional partners over ones selling Pure as a service.
The new integration between Pure and Cohesity follows up an integration around Pure’s FlashArray//M earlier this year.
Partners and customers of both Veeam and Pure have been requesting the integration, although it won’t become generally available until the fourth quarter of 2017.
Pure Storage recently appointed their first-ever Canadian country manager, and Canada channel manager as part of this increased focus.
The first product of this technology, designed to understand complex workload relationships with machine learning, is the Pure1 Workload Planner.
An upgrade to 75 blades in a single system provides 5x capacity and speed, a new 17TB blade was announced for mid-range deployments, and a new ultra-flash S3 object store was unveiled.
Pure Storage makes the biggest software release in its history, with new features and enhancements designed to increase their credibility in the enterprise.
