The new resource is a key step on the road to an Intronis sales and marketing certification program scheduled to be available in Q4.
Marketing, Storage
Intronis boosts marketing assistance to partners with MSP Marketing Booster Pack
by Mark Cox •
Storage
Hardware, Storage
Curvature, DataCore announce disruptive partnership
by Mark Cox •
DataCore’s software disaggregates software from the underlying hardware, letting Curvature provide customers with cheaper hardware and maintenance contracts, and freeing customers from the need to have short hardware refresh cycles to be compliant with maintenance contracts that provide software upgrades.
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Distribution, Storage
Imation signs on Arrow to distribute Nexsan in North America
by Mark Cox •
The Arrow deal broadens the Nexsan distribution network, and is also intended to transition more Nexsan resellers to Tier Two distribution, away from the direct Tier One model Nexsan used before it was acquired.
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Opinion/Editorial, Storage
Seagate purchase of Dot Hill has minimal channel implications
by Mark Cox •
Seagate’s acquisition of Dot Hill last week is intriguing in several ways, but for the channel, it’s pretty much a non-issue. Seagate’s focus is on Dot Hill’s OEM business, and their branded channel business, which had already been outsourced to Quantum, is unlikely to be affected at all.
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Data Centre, Servers, Storage, Virtualization
Lenovo expands hyperconverged portfolio with SimpliVity alliance
by Mark Cox •
Lenovo announces its second hyperconverged partnership this week, which like the first is focused primarily on the SMB space, where Lenovo is initially focusing with its hyperconverged strategy.
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Storage
Kaminario breaks sub-$1/GB flash pricing barrier with new array
by Mark Cox •
The all-flash vendor also announces the first industry support for 3D TLC Drives, native array-based replication and its Perpetual Array program. Boston-based Kaminario has unveiled its K2 v5.5 all-flash primary storage array, which becomes the first offering from any vendor to get the cost for a usable GB of flash below the one dollar mark.…
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Storage
Partners need to sell the foundation of the dream, says EMC Canada’s Kerr
by Mark Cox •
EMC’s Canadian channel chief lays out EMC’s value proposition and how partners can best position themselves within it.
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Software, Storage
Dell adds Scality to partners in software-defined storage portfolio
by Mark Cox •
The addition of Scality to Dell’s software-defined roster is likely to extend its market reach considerably, and partners Dell up with a leading object storage vendor.
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Data Centre, Servers, Storage, Virtualization
Lenovo, StorMagic partner on hyperconverged low cost ROBO solutions
by Mark Cox •
Lenovo teams up with software-defined storage vendor StorMagic to offer three new hyperconverged offerings. They are unlikely to be their last.
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Storage
ExaGrid ramps up scalability with enhanced deduplication, Oracle RMAN Channel support
by Mark Cox •
ExaGrid, which competes against much larger players like EMC Data Domain, is in a growth spurt, has ramped up its internal sales which work with channel partners, and hopes to go public in between two and two and a half years.
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Data Centre, Storage, Virtualization
New Nutanix Americas channel chief Chris Morgan lays out strategy
by Mark Cox •
Morgan discusses his priorities in making sure that the strength of Nutanix’s channel infrastructure keeps up with the rapid growth of its sales.
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Storage, Virtualization
Nutanix, Citrix deepen collaboration with Citrix support for Nutanix Acropolis solution
by Mark Cox •
Citrix certifies the complete Nutanix Acropolis solution as Citrix Ready, in what they intimate is only an opening round in future joint technical advances.
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Security, Storage
DataGravity enhances security features in Version 2 of data-aware storage platform
by Mark Cox •
DataGravity, which is available to the Canadian channel through Ingram Micro, is run by the team who created Equallogic, and offers data security, search and data protection in a single storage platform.
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Storage
BitMICRO pivots to enterprise with new high capacity SSDs and branding
by Mark Cox •
BitMICRO, which has transitioned their emphasis from the much smaller military SSD market, is focusing on high capacity drives as one of their key differentiators, and the new Z-Series SSDs go up to 8.8 TB.
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Managed Services, Storage
New Datto offerings strengthen business continuity play
by Mark Cox •
Datto also reported a significant increase in support from key Canadian partners, part of the ramifications from their recent increased investment in the Canadian market.
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Servers, Storage
HP announces second generation of hyperconverged StoreVirtual appliances
by Mark Cox •
The new CS 250 is a much-enhanced followup to the appliance HP first announced in December at HP Discover, and which came to market earlier this year.
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Hardware, Servers, Storage
Savage IO relaunches with new converged hardware storage solution
by Mark Cox •
The company’s new SavageStor architecture features 12 SAS lanes with 25 GB/s throughput, part of a design intended to completely remove bottlenecks inside the server and address needs of customers who require high performance and throughput.
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Data Centre, Distribution, Storage, Virtualization
Avnet adds Veeam Software to North American line card
by Mark Cox •
Expanding their EMEA relationship to the U.S. and Canada gives Avnet partners here access to a backup solution well suited for the converged infrastructure space, which complements Avnet’s emphasis in this area.
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Cloud, Storage
CloudBerry Backup extends support to Mac OS and Linux
by Mark Cox •
CloudBerry, which works mainly through MSPs and backs customers up to their choice of public cloud, will initially only have Mac and Linux backup for Amazon S3, but that will be expanded in later releases.
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Distribution, Storage
SimpliVity to boost Canadian business with new Cisco-related distribution deal
by Mark Cox •
SimpliVity is about to announce a new distribution deal which will strengthen its developing Canadian business, and make their joint solution with Cisco available as a single SKU.
