Storage

Channel Communities

Canadian storage vendor 45Drives to host first annual Storage Summit in Sydney N.S.

August 17, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canadian storage vendor 45Drives to host first annual Storage Summit in Sydney N.S.
The event, which is being held from August 24-26 in and around Sydney, the largest town on Cape Breton Island, will bring together storage thought leaders, with a heavy emphasis on the YouTube world, and is open to the public.

Artificial Intelligence

Nutanix targets Generative AI newcomer market with Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box

August 15, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix targets Generative AI newcomer market with Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box
The new offering adds an Opinionated AI stack and related services to Nutanix’s infrastructure and storage stacks, and the company believes it will find a good reception from the SMB to the enterprise.

Artificial Intelligence

VAST Data turns its technology to AI with announcement of Thinking Machine

August 1, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on VAST Data turns its technology to AI with announcement of Thinking Machine
The VAST DataStore, VAST DataBase and DataBase Engine combine to deliver on VAST’s long term plan of utilizing their storage technology for deep learning as well.

Channel Programs

NetApp’s new Partner Sphere Partner Program  goes live

August 1, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp’s new Partner Sphere Partner Program  goes live

Last fall NetApp announced its new program, which they term an extension of the previous Unified Partner Program rather than a major overhaul of it, and after giving partners a suitable time to prepare for the new program, it is now operational.

Artificial Intelligence

Lenovo enhances and refreshes storage and server solutions

July 18, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo enhances and refreshes storage and server solutions
These new data management solutions include  new Storage Arrays  that make it easier for organizations to enable AI workloads.

Backup

VAST Data announces partnership with Commvault at HPE Discover

June 27, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on VAST Data announces partnership with Commvault at HPE Discover
The extended partnership with Commvault follows up a major one with HPE early last year.

Storage

Pure Storage goes deeper into data centre with expanded Pure//E family, while also strengthening FlashArray//X and FlashArray//C

June 15, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage goes deeper into data centre with expanded Pure//E family, while also strengthening FlashArray//X and FlashArray//C
The FlashArray//X and FlashArray//C boast a 40% performance increase, while the FlashArray//E reaches the lowest end of the datacentre market, giving Pure and their partners an end-to-end offering.

As-a-Service

Pure CEO Giancarlo lays out vision to leave disk in the dust

June 15, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure CEO Giancarlo lays out vision to leave disk in the dust
Giancarlo emphasized that the long-awaited time has finally arrived when flash is now price-competitive with HDDs in the lower reaches of the data centre, and that Pure in particular enjoys competitive advantages in the market that will let them take advantage of this opportunity to the fullest.

As-a-Service

Pure exhorts partners to leverage expanded portfolio and expand services capabilities

June 15, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure exhorts partners to leverage expanded portfolio and expand services capabilities
With Pure’s portfolio expanded down to the lower reaches of the data centre, and flash reaching that long-sought price parity in that environment, both Pure and their partners think the potential for significant growth has arrived.

Backup

Pure Storage strengthens data resiliency with new ransomware SLA guarantee, new data protection assessment and anomaly detection capabilities.

June 14, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage strengthens data resiliency with new ransomware SLA guarantee, new data protection assessment and anomaly detection capabilities.
The new SLA guarantee is the first SLA that customers will have to purchase rather than get free as part of Evergreen, but it provides significant benefits on getting the customer new clean hardware for recovery, assisted by a Pure engineer onsite.