Storage

Liquidware strengthens DaaS appeal with new ability to save direct to object-based cloud storage

April 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Liquidware also thinks that the capability to save directly to the AWS, Microsoft and Google object storage clouds, which is a first in this space, will also appeal to customers with a hybrid desktop computing strategy, who are not yet ready for a full move to DaaS.

StorONE partners with Mellanox to extend sub-penny per GB storage value proposition

April 19, 2018 Mark Cox 1

StorONE, run by the same team as StorWIZE that IBM bought in 2010, has a 100 per cent channel strategy and is in partner recruitment mode. They expect the partnership with Mellanox will make them appeal to Mellanox partners as well.

Bare metal container platform provider Diamanti launches first channel program

April 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Diamanti quickly adopted an all-channel go-to-market in the face of resellers looking for a turnkey enterprise container management solution, and now has introduced a program to support what will start off as a select value channel.

New DataCore leadership team rethinks approach to market to drive growth agenda

April 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

DataCore has a new CEO, Dave Zabrowski, and a new CMO, Gerardo Dada. They were brought in to drive the company to a leadership position that has eluded the company to date, and discuss with ChannelBuzz their strategy to bring this about.

Qumulo releases NVMe all-flash P series

April 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

The Qumulo P-series NVMe flash offering that was announced last fall now hits the market, initially targeted at the most demanding of use cases of workload-intensive sectors like media and entertainment.

Elastifile partnership with Google brings their enterprise-grade scalable filer to Google Cloud Launcher

April 3, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Elastifile, which already has a very close relationship with AWS, deepens their partnership with Google in a way that sees them become the first shared file system on the Google Cloud Launcher.

Pure Storage, NVIDIA introduce AIRI AI-ready infrastructure

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

A jointly engineered ‘AI-in-a-Box,’ AIRI allows customers to cut simulation training time by 4x, in a much tinier footprint than it took before.

Backup

Pivot3 announces cloud version of their HCI offering for the AWS Cloud

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

The features of the next-gen Pivot3 Acuity platform introduced last year are being migrated to the cloud, beginning with using its dynamic provisioning capability for backup and disaster recovery.

StorageCraft targets law enforcement market with tailored storage solution for body cameras

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

The need for reasonably priced storage to handle the large storage demand from 4K body cams being acquired by police departments is leading VARs who have not focused on these verticals to move into the space, and has also led StorageCraft to design a custom storage solution for it.