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Storage

Purity//FA 5.0 software announcement highlights Pure Storage Accelerate event

June 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Purity//FA 5.0 software announcement highlights Pure Storage Accelerate event
Pure Storage makes the biggest software release in its history, with new features and enhancements designed to increase their credibility in the enterprise.

Storage

Integrating Nimble: Bringing its technology, solutions and culture into HPE

June 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Integrating Nimble: Bringing its technology, solutions and culture into HPE
Bringing Nimble into the HPE fold raises many questions about how the integration will work. HPE Nimble gives an update on what has happened so far, and where it’s headed.

Storage

TCO enhancements highlight upgrades to Hitachi Content Platform portfolio

June 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on TCO enhancements highlight upgrades to Hitachi Content Platform portfolio
The big improvements are to software and hardware capabilities on the core Hitachi Content Platform and to the Hitachi Data Ingestor Platform.

Partnerships

Hedvig’s distributed storage platform now available through HPE Complete program

June 8, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hedvig’s distributed storage platform now available through HPE Complete program
The Hedvig software-defined technology collapses disparate tiers of storage and unifies block, file, and object interfaces in a single platform, providing HPE and its partners with a capability not otherwise available to them through HPE.

Partnerships

Scale-out vendor Qumulo goes on offense with HPE partnership

June 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale-out vendor Qumulo goes on offense with HPE partnership
Qumulo’s software on HPE servers gives HPE a strong distributed file system offering to compete against Isilon and NetApp.

Storage

Coho Data converged solution with HPE and Arista publicly launches

June 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Coho Data converged solution with HPE and Arista publicly launches
Coho Data, which has recently reworked itself into a software-defined vendor, has just launched a converged turnkey solution through the HPE Complete program.

Big Data

HPE promises quick channel integration, availability of new acquisitions

June 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE promises quick channel integration, availability of new acquisitions
In contrast with Aruba, where the program was deliberately kept separate from HPE Partner Ready, the plan with the many new acquisitions is to bring everything together quickly as part of an integrated strategy.

Storage

Entry into hyper-converged market highlights multiple major NetApp announcements

June 5, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Entry into hyper-converged market highlights multiple major NetApp announcements
Other highlights include the new version of their ONTAP software, a new usage-based consumption option to purchase infrastructure, enhancing their OCI software, and expanding their free controller upgrade program to credits for a broader array of NetApp purchases.

Managed Services

ClearSky Data formalizes partner program for metro-based on-demand primary storage

May 31, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on ClearSky Data formalizes partner program for metro-based on-demand primary storage
The present ClearSky partner ecosystem includes both MSPs and traditional reseller partners, and they are looking to increase the numbers of both.

Storage

Cohesity broadens go-to-market with HPE, Azure, Lenovo partnerships

May 26, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity broadens go-to-market with HPE, Azure, Lenovo partnerships
The HPE deal, which is the only one that has a reselling component, is likely to have the most immediate impact for Cohesity, but both the others have different types of potential as well.