Storage

Komprise improves partner margins with launch of first channel program

August 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Veteran channels leader Zach Edwards was brought in by Komprise to design the new program, and improve Komprise’s support to its channel, which is their entire route to market.

Pure CEO Dietzen steps down for leader with skillset for growth at scale

August 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Scott Dietzen moves over to Chairman of the Board, with Charles Giancarlo replacing him as CEO of Pure.

New encryption, improved flash support highlight Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform 3.0

August 24, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new Hedvig software also adds new plug-ins for Veritas and Red Hat, and enhances an existing one for VMware.

Cirrus Data Solutions strikes first integrated deal with INFINIDAT strategic alliance

August 23, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The deal sees the Cirrus Data Migration Server become the data migration element in INFINIDAT’s InfiniBox hardware, which is aimed at the higher end of the market.

ioFABRIC adds cost optimization capability to pooled automatic data fabric solution

August 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Toronto startup ioFABRIC has refined its messaging to focus on customer concerns about clouds and hybrid clouds, and backed that up by extending their solution’s capability with Vicinity 3.0.

Tegile goes all-NVMe route with new N-Series

August 21, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Tegile becomes the second vendor to announce an all-flash version around the generation of NVMe drives that is about to ship, with massive performance and latency improvements over existing product.

Midrange storage the focus as Dell EMC unveils new channel investments

August 17, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

In addition to the many storage announcements, Dell EMC also addressed the issues with the Partner Academy, and will be waiving training requirements for the second half of the year.