SwiftStack expands the one-way cloud replication it introduced last year, as part of its strategy in expanding from what was initially an on-prem solution, to one capable of managing a multi-cloud hybrid cloud.
Veeam is the first availability vendor to be deeply integrated with the new 2.0 version of Cisco’s HyperFlex hyper-converged platform, which will be good news for joint Veeam and Cisco partners.
The restructured Scale program accommodates managed service providers for the first time, and also makes provision for referral partners.
Nimble Cloud Volumes adapts Nimble’s technology so it can be delivered as a service, which the company believes will significantly expand their total addressable market.
Panzura is looking to its new partner program to both recruit and support a select partner base that can sell its new Freedom solutions, which are focused on the cloud NAS-space.
Nexsan’s new Unity Active Archive is expected to have a much larger market than Nexsan’s Assureon archiving product, because of its ease of use and deployment, broader use cases, and attractive pricing.
Panzura’s family of three offerings offer progressively more functionality, and all are geared to let customers leverage cloud storage while still having all the performance and features of local storage.
The high-flying startup, which sells entirely through the channel, also announced a Series B funding which raised $12 million.
The Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud has previously been available on VxBlock, but it will soon be available on VxRail appliances, broadening its presence down market and greatly increasing the channel opportunity.
The Cohesity DataPlatform Virtual Edition is intended for remote and branch office use cases, as is a new hardware alternative, the C2100, also being announced.
As all-flash grows in importance, HPE is emphasizing the importance of how the infrastructure beyond the flash array itself impacts orchestration and protects data.
Memory, performance and capacity have been increased, with capacity on the physical models going up from 100 per cent in the entry level appliances, to between 15-30 per cent in the high end ones.
Carbonite’s chief evangelist takes with ChannelBuzz about the Double-Take deal, the integration plans, and what it will all mean for both Carbonite and Double-Take partners.
The NetApp AFF A700s is aimed at customers looking to improve their data centre economics by significantly reducing physical footprint. NetApp also announced an updating and reworking of its storage capacity guarantee.
FlashBlade has been in Directed Availability since last July, but it is now broadly available to all customers through the Pure Storage partner channel.
The acquisition follows a successful distribution agreement last October through which Exablox resold StorageCraft ShadowProtect software.
Pivot3’s hyper-converged Canadian business is much stronger today in the physical security space than in compute, and addressing that is one of ex-VMware Canadian country manager’s Aitken’s top priorities.
IBM announces all-flash versions of its full DS8880 portfolio, but for the channel, impact is likely to be slight because compared to other IBM storage families, this one has a more limited partner presence.
HPE has announced the first major series of enhancements to the SMB-focused StoreVirtual 3200, which bring it up to the same capabilities of StoreVirtual systems higher in the market, and will make it much more attractive to partners.
Part of HPE’s recent announcements at their Discover event in London involved a new partnership with storage vendor Spectra Logic, for whom the announcement is particularly significant.
