Storage

Data Centre, Storage

EMC programs look to allay customer flash fears

by Robert Dutt • July 8, 2014

Jeremy Burton, president of EMC's Information Infrastructure group.

EMC announces a trio of programs to address customer concerns with flash storage, including a guarantee that XtremIO products will last at least 7 years.

Carbonite launches first channel-only product

by Mark Cox • June 19, 2014

David Maffei, vice president of global channel sales at Carbonite

Carbonite Appliance HT10 first purpose-built for channel product to launch in vendor’s shift from direct to indirect sales.

Asigra looks to drop hardware costs for MSPs

by Robert Dutt • June 18, 2014

Eran Farajun, executive vice president, Asigra

Backup software vendor Asigra builds an open-source stack that it says can cut MSP’s storage costs on backup-as-a-service in half

Intronis flattens backup price

by Robert Dutt • June 10, 2014

Intronis debuts a new pricing model for backup and products, making it a flat rate for MSPs to provide customers a variety of cloud and onsite protection.

Backup: An antidote to ransomware

by Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) • June 10, 2014

Despite efforts to curb it, ransomware is on the rise. Cloud backup is being used to thwart such attacks and could be a powerful selling proposition.

Atlantis Computing releases ILIO bundle for VMware Virtual SAN

by Mark Cox • June 5, 2014

Greg Holzrichter, vice president of global marketing at Atlantis Computing.

Atlantis Computing, which makes solutions that optimize virtual storage, has announced the release of a new bundle, Atlantis ILIO for Virtual SAN.

Sanovi targets FlexPod resellers, MSPs with new program

by Mark Cox • June 4, 2014

Sanovi, an Indian-based maker of disaster recovery software, launches a partner program to deepen its penetration of the North American market.

Dell enhances data protection portfolio with NetVault 10, dedupe appliance

by Mark Cox • May 13, 2014

Dell has beefed up its data protection portfolio with the release of version 10 of its NetVault software, together with a new deduplication appliance.

EMC debuts Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance

by Robert Dutt • May 8, 2014

Jeremy Burton, president of EMC’s Information Infrastructure business

EMC says its new appliance allows enterprises and service providers to operate cloud storage cheaper than the big public cloud providers’ storage offerings.

Avnet debuts first made-for-Canada converged offering

by Robert Dutt • May 8, 2014

John Tonthat, director of business development and marketing for the EMC solutions group at Avnet Technology Solutions

Avnet Technology Solutions’ new A20 pre-configured architecture of EMC and Cisco technology is its first stack designed for SMB and the Canadian market.

EMC, “Federation” to offer joint solutions, link partner programs

by Robert Dutt • May 8, 2014

EMC, VMware, RSA, Pivotal, VCE will align programs and offer integrated solutions, but remain independent in working with others.

EMC debuts unified partner program

by Robert Dutt • May 7, 2014

Fred Kohout, vice president of worldwide channel marketing at EMC

A year after announcing the impending end of its Velocity partner brand, EMC debuts its new Business Partner Program.

Liveblog: EMC Global Partner Summit

by Robert Dutt • May 6, 2014

Live, as-it-happens updates from EMC’s Global Partner Summit keynotes in Las Vegas

In growth push, Acronis redefines backup

by Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) • May 6, 2014

Yury Larichev, president of backup vendor Acronis

Acronis believes its path to growth and success is not in making a better product, but rather redefining what it means to back up data in workloads context.

EMC buys enterprise flash startup DSSD

by Robert Dutt • May 5, 2014

EMC’s latest purchase will help it get to all-flash arrays in the hundreds of terabytes, focusing on Big Data apps like Hadoop and SAP HANA.

Cisco, EMC close ranks for new VCE partner program

by Robert Dutt • May 1, 2014

Chris Sullivan, vice president of channel and investor alliances for VCE

VCE, Cisco, and EMC come together for their first joint partner program, aiming to get partners to elevate the conversation around converged infrastructure.