Veeam has also introduced new bundles with HPE and with Cisco, which are now available through Ingram Micro.
Channel Programs, Storage, Virtualization
Veeam to deepen enterprise push with enterprise sales force to work with partners
by Mark Cox •
Storage
Cloud, Storage
HPE offers price-per-gig storage with Flash Now initiative
by Robert Dutt •
The program, from the HPE 3Par storage group, is targeted at keeping storage that may otherwise go to public cloud in the data centre.
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Cohesity unveils new product for hyper-converged backup to AWS and Azure
by Mark Cox •
Cohesity, which aims to consolidate all forms of secondary storage on a single platform, builds on cloud archiving and tiering in their spring release with a platform with full cloud capability.
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Managed Services, Storage
Druva deepens channel, business development investments with new hires
by Mark Cox •
Druva also announced a new partnership with ConnectWise, part of their increased emphasis on building up their platform business.
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New Tegile T4000 series significantly upgrades old T3000 line
by Mark Cox •
The company says that performance, density and memory upgrades will make things like facial recognition of individual customers in retail stores a reality.
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Channel Programs, Servers, Storage
Partner tiering, accreditation changes on horizon for Lenovo
by Mark Cox •
Lenovo’s increased emphasis over the last year on elements in the server space that go well beyond 1P and 2P servers is leading to some significant programmatic changes coming in 2017.
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HDS adds Content Intelligence platform to Hitachi Content Portfolio for object storage
by Mark Cox •
The new content intelligence solution joins the Hitachi Content Platform, an integrated cloud-file gateway and an enterprise file sync and sharing platform as core elements of a broad object storage portfolio.
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Managed Services, Servers, Storage
Tripling supported number of Easy Connect users highlights HPE SMB portfolio enhancements
by Mark Cox •
HPE has also enhanced its SMB focused StoreEasy NAS family, and its HPE Flex Solutions for SQL Server.
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Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 extends continuous data protection journal
by Mark Cox •
Other new features include Azure support, one-to-many replication capability and a mobile app to enable remote access to Zerto environments.
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Networking, Storage, Virtualization
Nutanix adds native enterprise networking capabilities to enterprise cloud stack
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix is announcing several new networking new capabilities which they believe are critical to their ultimate goal of doing in the private cloud space what AWS did in the public space. Availability of some of this is still a while off, however.
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Cloud, Data Centre, Storage
NetApp adds new threads to their data fabric
by Mark Cox •
NetApp announces a series of new and enhanced data services, as well as a refresh of several solutions aimed at the hybrid cloud.
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Storage, Virtualization
Apcera formally announces its enterprise container management platform
by Mark Cox •
Apcera is now emphatically branding its platform as an enterprise-grade container management platform, believing that the container market has matured to the point where the platform’s purpose and assets will now be clear.
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Managed Services, Storage
Battling ransomware common theme of Datto product updates
by Mark Cox •
The Datto SIRIS 3 platform has added a ransomware detection algorithm to take advance of a backup provider’s capability to easily restore a system to its pre-infection status.
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Storage
HDS enhances flash capabilities in software and in new systems
by Mark Cox •
HDS adds top of the line models in both its all-flash F series, and hybrid flash G series, as well as the new SVOS 7 operating system.
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Security, Storage
New Dell EMC data protection bundle tip of spear for more integrated solutions
by Mark Cox •
Dell EMC has announced a new data protection bundle which at this point is basically an unintegrated sales bundle with multiple consoles. They are already working on plans to change that however, and bring more technically integrated solutions cutting across multiple brands to market.
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Partnerships, Storage, Virtualization
Atlantis Computing expands Citrix partnership, announces new one with Rancher Labs
by Mark Cox •
The new Atlantis integration with Citrix brings its VDI infrastructure directly into Citrix management interfaces, while the new partnering with Rancher Labs integrates Atlantis’ management interface with theirs to better manage containers.
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Storage, Virtualization
Scale Computing addresses ‘smallest of the small’ with one node hyper-converged appliance
by Mark Cox •
The most common use case for the new single node Scale Computing configuration will be providing ROBO capabilities and disaster recovery in conjunction with traditional three node appliances.
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Channel Programs, Managed Services, Storage
Container management software provider DH2i launches first channel program
by Mark Cox •
Microsoft-focused DH2i sees a strong opportunity for partners, and has recently begun to build out a channel. They have now launched a channel program to provide support.
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Storage
Dell EMC upgrades SC portfolio with support from EMC-side technologies
by Mark Cox •
Dell EMC World this year has seen the integration of support from legacy Dell products like PowerEdge servers for EMC solutions. This particular integration goes the other way, with support from legacy EMC storage management and data protection products being announced for the mid-range SC line.
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All-Flash Dell EMC Isilon offers high-end complement to recent entry level offering
by Mark Cox •
What was formerly Project Nitro will hit the streets in 2017, with a single 4U Isilon Scale-Out system reaching a maximum of 924TB of capacity, 250,000 IOPS and up to 15GB/s of aggregate bandwidth in a 4-node cluster.
