Storage

Dell Global Channel Chief Dagher touts channel momentum, asks partners to go all in

Rola Dagher, a Canadian who came to the Dell channel job from running Cisco Canada, also singled out the Canadian channel for its recent work.

Dell upgrades storage portfolio and plugs it into multi-cloud theme on Day Two of Dell Technologies World

On Day Two, Dell  emphasized storage enhancements in their PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex portfolios, but also stressed these were not standalone announcements, and were part of the company’s multi-cloud vision laid out on the previous day.

Dell hardware sales through partners help propel record setting Q4 and 2021

Dell’s hardware business benefited greatly from organizations, at this stage of their tech rebuild, needing to refresh a hardware base in data centres that was at least two years old, and generally older than that.

Lightbits brings in Charla Bunton-Johnson to drive channel-first strategy for software-defined NVMe pioneer

The channel is relatively new in Lightbits’ strategy, but the new channel leader was brought in to scale growth in accordance with what has become a channel-first strategy.

Wasabi expects big push in Canada from opening of first Canadian data centre

Wasabi’s overall business has posted very strong growth over the last several years, but the lack of a Canadian data centre has created some data sovereignty issues that, until now, have limited their growth here.

Scale out block storage vendor StorPool makes major move into MSP market

StorPool has customized its software to make it easy for MSPs to build their own highly efficient Tier One storage platform, or to build private clouds for customers that can run mission-critical workloads.

Hitachi Vantara unveils mega-launch of new and enhanced hybrid cloud offerings

They include Virtual Storage Software Block, a new software-defined data platform that extends Hitachi’s virtual storage platform to cloud native applications, but the most interesting one for channel partners may be the VSP E1090, their new top of the line mid-range storage array.

Nutanix reworks product portfolio into simplified Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and Nutanix Cloud Manager segments with consistent operating and pricing models

Storage services, database services and end user computing services are also available as discrete packages, with the aim of all being to simplify things for customers and make the solutions easier for partners to sell.

Pure Storage makes changes to partner program to respond to change and consolidation in the partner community

The changes include adjusting benefits to the partner’s preferred business model, improving Elite Partner benefits, adding a formal Services Specialization Program, and adding more flexibility to make building up practices easier.

Dell unveils new and enhanced multi-cloud products to speed multi-cloud journey from default to design

Dell is making a large number of multi-cloud announcements to expand their multi-cloud capabilities, and make them more effective for customers.

Dell rides channel to exceptionally strong quarter

Dell’s third quarter improved on its already strong first half, with its channel business doing particularly well in core legacy areas like its server and client businesses.

MSP360 adds Wasabi Object Lock storage and $1 a month desktop image and file backup licenses for AWS Unified Billing

This latest extension of MSP360’s strategic partnership with Wasabi is scheduled to be followed up with others in the near future.

StorCentric fills out unified support for Nexsan Unity software 7.0 with addition of object support

StorCentric also adds support for S3 object protocol, immutable snapshots for ransomware protection, 40% improved throughput and up to 50% improved Assureon ingest rate.

StorONE unveils new S1:Backup solution to protect against ransomware and more

Storage vendor StorONE adds a new backup solution, which will be free to current customers, and while it is being touted for its ransomware protection, it has other benefits which significantly lower the cost of backup protection.

Hitachi Vantara announces major storage product refresh, roadmap strategy

Hitachi announces new product for their VSP 5000 and VSP E-Series, along with non-disruptive upgrade capabilities for both, as well as an enhancement of their HCP platform to accommodate new use cases.

Clumio moves to solve huge AWS pain point with Clumio Protect for Amazon S3

Clumio anticipates a significant market for this solution when it hits GA in December, because AWS S3 has become a large customer pain point, and theirs is the first solution on the market for it.

Data accelerator Pliops looks to build strength in Fortune 1000 through North American disti deal with TD SYNNEX

Pliops, which makes a differentiated hardware and software accelerator that is also a media enhancer, started selling direct to hyperscalers, but now is expanding into the enterprise, and looking to work with partners with established connections in this market.

Dell refreshes and enhances scale-out NAS solutions with new hardware, updated software and joint anti-ransomware solution with Superna