PernixData’s flagship storage product uses high-speed server media to take read and write out of storage and into the server tier, making VM performance much faster and scalable. It’s a highly complementary solution to existing storage arrays.
At its .NEXT event, Nutanix has been stressing that the company needs to reinvent itself, moving beyond its hyper-converged base, despite the considerable risks in its larger objective of becoming a platform company that can redefine the datacentre’s private cloud.
Two of Nutanix’s top Canadian partners discuss the evolution of their companies’ relationship with Nutanix, from early days to the present and how they have become successful partnering with the company, while taking somewhat different strategies.
Nutanix has unveiled a host of related announcements, including enhancements in its upcoming July 4.7 release that will add support for containerized and physical environments, supporting everything in a single platform.
Chris Morgan assessed his success in executing on his priorities in this first year on the job, and considers the channel impact of Nutanix’s emphasis in 2016 of the big picture beyond simply saving money through hyper-converged solutions.
The HC V240, HDS’ first hyper-converged appliance, is based on the VMware stack, but the hyper-converged road map is likely to broaden out beyond that.
The all-flash SIRIS 3 X1is available only with a TB drive, with the plan being to roll over further models if and when they meet customers’ price/performance needs.
This free open source version of Scality’s S3 API allows developers to develop and test applications locally. The company also hopes that it will eventually attract them to the regular version of their software.
NetApp announces multiple new releases in its data protection software, including some which leverage new capabilities of the just-released ONTAP 9 OS.
Data Dynamics has enhanced several platform elements, and two new ones have been added, a Data Protection Module and an SDK.
Version 6.0 of Scality’s RING software significantly enhances their commitment to the AWS S3 protocol, which the company says will significantly expand their business with their vendor and reseller partners.
The company has announced more details about its composable data fabric strategy, made possible by extending its StoreVirtual technology across all its form factors, to serve as the basis of its strategy for making software-defined ubiquitous in the date centre.
All-flash has been a many-faceted boon to the channel, and HPE’s new announcements will add some new opportunities for the company’s partners
NetApp has also strengthened, and is now giving much greater emphasis to, its flash-focused 3-4-5 guarantee to customers.
Panzura’s new CEO talks about where he sees the company being able to ramp up, and reaffirms their commitment to channel partners.
The two companies have been long-time partners around VDI, but this extension of their relationship makes a very low cost hyper-converged offering, which combines Atlantis’ hyper-converged infrastructure with the full Xen stack, available to any certified Citrix partner.
Nutanix is making changes to its channel strategies around this product, including deal registration, to avoid channel confusion. Lenovo and its channel will also play a key role taking Xpress to market.
Nutanix’s president acknowledged that the industry’s previous announced attempts at a low-cost VDI solution have been basically junk, which have left customers suspicious of such claims. Nutanix InstantON VDI for Citrix, on the other hand, is an enterprise-capable turnkey solution, which really will come in in the $500 price range, including the endpoint.
The VM-aware storage vendor also announced new predictive analytics capabilities, nine new all-flash model options, and two new cloud offerings.
EMC Canada channel chief Michael Kerr gives a specifically Canadian take on the pending merger with Dell, as well as initial partner reaction to some of the new product announcements from EMC World.
