Storage

Cloud

Elastifile brings high performance flash-native hybrid cloud data infrastructure to market

April 5, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Elastifile brings high performance flash-native hybrid cloud data infrastructure to market
Elastifile leverages its distributed metadata model to produce a scale-out, flash-native distributed file system that provides both storage and data lifecycle management.

Backup

Cohesity adds object storage, NAS support in fourth gen secondary storage platform

April 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity adds object storage, NAS support in fourth gen secondary storage platform
Cohesity also announced its oversubscribed $90 million Series C funding round – which has a couple of interesting partner angles built in.

Servers

ARM hyper-converged vendor KALEAO enlists Vancouver’s Tuangru as key channel partner

March 31, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on ARM hyper-converged vendor KALEAO enlists Vancouver’s Tuangru as key channel partner
KALEAO, which first brought product to market last October, provides an update of both its overall and channel strategies, and where Tuangru fits in.

Cloud

Tintri makes first formal cloud certification available

March 28, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tintri makes first formal cloud certification available
Tintri is looking to increase the number of go-to cloud partners in a cloud business the company views as increasingly strategic.

Storage

Alliance Storage Technologies announces NETArchive Version 2

March 27, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Alliance Storage Technologies announces NETArchive Version 2
Alliance Storage Technologies makes multi-tiered storage, with the secret sauce being an optical storage specialization. The new version has significant capacity increases over the old.

Storage

QNAP refreshes enterprise NAS offering with TS-1685

March 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on QNAP refreshes enterprise NAS offering with TS-1685
QNAP replaces its TS-1080 with a new, beefier model, which will give its channel a more robust offering for customers who want enterprise capacity, but who have space issues.

Cloud

Axcient makes broad enhancements to SMB cloud platform

March 22, 2017 Mark Cox 1
The Axcient Business Recovery Cloud platform gets a refresh of its HPE hardware, updates for the latest IT environments, and a flurry of improvements based on MSP recommendations.

Backup

IBM announces Red Hat partnership, expands ones with Veritas and NetApp

March 20, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on IBM announces Red Hat partnership, expands ones with Veritas and NetApp
IBM’s new partnering announcements are focused on expanding opportunities for other vendors’ customers to use the IBM cloud.

Backup

Channel-focused next-gen storage vendor Reduxio receives large funding boost

March 20, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Channel-focused next-gen storage vendor Reduxio receives large funding boost
Expansion into Canada is among the objectives from the new cash infusion from Reduxio’s Series C funding.

Storage

Lenovo brings software-defined appliance with DataCore software to market

March 16, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo brings software-defined appliance with DataCore software to market
Lenovo’s DX8200D turnkey appliance is Lenovo’s first collaboration with Datacore, and combines its x3650 M5 servers with DataCore software in a very channel-friendly offering.