November 27, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on Komprise deepens relationship with AWS by being named Advanced Tier Technology Partner
Being named an Advanced Tier partner deepens the joint sales relationship between Komprise and AWS, provides access to co-marketing funds, and gives them a dedicated AWS partner manager.
The secret sauce of StorONE is software that took six years to engineer, and which produces very low prices by supporting all types of disks, all protocols and storage services in a single layer.
November 13, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on New emphasis on services highlights Dell EMC 2018 partner program requirements
Dell EMC has announced its thresholds and tiers for 2018, and while there are some changes from the previous system, the biggest, by far, is the emphasis on services for tier eligibility, not just for rebates.
November 8, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on Nutanix to add three new developer-focused services as part of enterprise cloud strategy
The provision of new object storage, compute and marketplace services to developers is part of a continuing Nutanix strategy to elevate itself from providing HCI infrastructure to providing the whole stack.
November 8, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on Comtrade to enhance built-for Nutanix HYCU backup with ESX support
Other new elements, which will be formally announced next week, include an early trial for AFS backup and more efficient support for ROBO environments.
November 8, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on Panasas continues to move beyond HPC with next generation of scale-out NAS
The big breakthrough for Panasas here is the new ASD-100 disaggregated Director Blade, which allows metadata to be accessed twice as fast as the previous product generation.
Dell EMC has made strengthening its position in midrange storage a priority, and in addition to the new product upgrades has also introduced a customer satisfaction guarantee.
October 31, 2017Mark CoxComments Off on SwiftStack looks to future with expanded multi-cloud data management capabilities
SwiftStack adds some significant capabilities around public cloud archiving, synchronization, and multi-region clusters – and indicates that much bigger news will be coming in a month.
While Canadian customers have a generally accurate reputation for being late technology adopters, Dell EMC execs at last week’s Toronto forum said that they are seeing movement towards newer Dell Technologies offerings.