Storage

Channel Programs

BiTMICRO moves into enterprise SSDs with MAXio drives

August 14, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on BiTMICRO moves into enterprise SSDs with MAXio drives
The enterprise SSD space is a very congested one, but BiTMICRO believes that it can differentiate itself from this crowded field because while they focus on IOPS, BiTMICRO focuses on capacity.

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Software

Dell combines three solutions in Backup and Disaster Recovery Suite

August 12, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell combines three solutions in Backup and Disaster Recovery Suite
The Dell Backup & Disaster Recovery Suite is a data protection bundle that consolidates the company’s three data protection offerings – AppAssure, NetVault Backup and VRanger.

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Data Centre

CacheBox brings server-side caching into application tier

August 6, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on CacheBox brings server-side caching into application tier
Their CacheAdvance application acceleration software delivers high performance while using only a fraction of flash capacity required by other solutions.

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Storage

EMC says new ProtectPoint solution can revolutionize backup

July 31, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC says new ProtectPoint solution can revolutionize backup
EMC’s new backup solution leverages enhanced technology in VMAX 3.0 to integrate primary storage and protection storage.

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Cloud

Cleversafe, Nasuni partner on unified storage solution

July 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cleversafe, Nasuni partner on unified storage solution
The partnership creates a unified storage system that will let distributed offices and mobile employees access a single global fileshare which makes collaboration and centralized data protection possible.

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Seagate NAS Pro
Storage

Seagate unveils new NAS lines for small business

July 15, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Seagate unveils new NAS lines for small business
Seagate NAS Pro line includes everything from fully loaded to completely diskless for VARs who prefer to specify their own storage for customers’ NASes.

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IBM SoftLayer Elastic Storage
Big Data

IBM unveils new Big Data data management service

July 15, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on IBM unveils new Big Data data management service
IBM debuts Elastic Storage, a software-defined storage-as-a-service offering built on SoftLayer that can be implemented 100% cloud, or on a hybrid model.

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Eric Herzog, CMO, Violin Memory
Storage

Violin announces four new Windows Flash Array models with pay-as-you-grow pricing

July 15, 2014 Mark Cox 1
Violin Memory builds out its Windows-centric all-flash storage lineup, ramps up recruiting of Microsoft VARs for what will be a major new business.

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Dell DL 1000
Storage

Dell rolls out two new backup appliances, latest AppAssure release

July 15, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell rolls out two new backup appliances, latest AppAssure release
New backup appliances include the DL 1000, Dell’s first purpose-built for SMB, an area of strength for the Round Rock, Tex. vendor.

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Fidelma Russo, senior vice president of EMC’s VMAX product business unit
Storage

EMC looks to expand channel footprint with VMAX 3.0 launch

July 14, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on EMC looks to expand channel footprint with VMAX 3.0 launch
EMC says its upcoming VMAX 3.0 launch will push the product further into the midmarket and expand the breadth and depth of partner access to the platform.

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Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3004
Storage

Dot Hill unveils next-gen entry level storage systems

July 9, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dot Hill unveils next-gen entry level storage systems
Dot Hill’s new entry-level AssuredSAN product boasts higher performance and improved connectivity over its previous-generation predecessor.

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

EMC programs look to allay customer flash fears

July 8, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on EMC programs look to allay customer flash fears
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.

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David Maffei, vice president of global channel sales at Carbonite
Cloud

Carbonite launches first channel-only product

June 19, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Carbonite launches first channel-only product
Carbonite Appliance HT10 first purpose-built for channel product to launch in vendor’s shift from direct to indirect sales.

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Eran Farajun, executive vice president, Asigra
Cloud

Asigra looks to drop hardware costs for MSPs

June 18, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Asigra looks to drop hardware costs for MSPs
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

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Aaron Dun, CMO of Intronis
Cloud

Intronis flattens backup price

June 10, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Intronis flattens backup price
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.

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backup security
Storage

Backup: An antidote to ransomware

June 10, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off on Backup: An antidote to ransomware
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.

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

Atlantis Computing releases ILIO bundle for VMware Virtual SAN

June 5, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Atlantis Computing releases ILIO bundle for VMware Virtual SAN
Atlantis Computing, which makes solutions that optimize virtual storage, has announced the release of a new bundle, Atlantis ILIO for Virtual SAN.

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Chendra Pulimaritsa, CEO of Sanovi
Channel Programs

Sanovi targets FlexPod resellers, MSPs with new program

June 4, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sanovi targets FlexPod resellers, MSPs with new program
Sanovi, an Indian-based maker of disaster recovery software, launches a partner program to deepen its penetration of the North American market.

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Dell NetVault 10
Security

Dell enhances data protection portfolio with NetVault 10, dedupe appliance

May 13, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell enhances data protection portfolio with NetVault 10, dedupe appliance
Dell has beefed up its data protection portfolio with the release of version 10 of its NetVault software, together with a new deduplication appliance.

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Jeremy Burton, president of EMC’s Information Infrastructure business
Cloud

EMC debuts Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance

May 8, 2014 Robert Dutt 1
EMC says its new appliance allows enterprises and service providers to operate cloud storage cheaper than the big public cloud providers’ storage offerings.

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