Storage

Channel Programs

New Komprise CRO reworks Go-to-Market to strengthen channel

November 13, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Komprise CRO reworks Go-to-Market to strengthen channel
The big changes involve making the whole Go-to-Market strategy more systematic, and include the addition of an internal sales team to work with partners, but some enhancements have been made to the partner program as well to make it more effective.

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Cloud

MSP360 further extends broad platform capability with unified cloud storage billing – and with an RMM coming shortly

November 13, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on MSP360 further extends broad platform capability with unified cloud storage billing – and with an RMM coming shortly
MSP360 has also reworked its pricing structure, separating MSPs from end users and giving MSPs greatly preferred pricing to remove what the company decided was channel conflict which worked against MSPs.

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Cloud

OVHcloud unveils aggressive new storage strategy based on acquisitions and new NetApp partnership

November 4, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on OVHcloud unveils aggressive new storage strategy based on acquisitions and new NetApp partnership
In addition to broadening out and strengthening their object, block and file storage portfolios, OVHcloud also announced a new AI initiative to facilitate easier deployments of AI pilots into production.

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Software

Diamanti continues software transition with standalone Diamanti Ultima Kubernetes data management solution

November 2, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Diamanti continues software transition with standalone Diamanti Ultima Kubernetes data management solution
While Diamanti Ultra continues Diamanti’s move from being hardware to software-focused, they are still working on putting their key storage and networking I/O offload technologies that optimize performance into the cloud.

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Storage

New Pure WaveMakers program for elite SEs highlights Pure Storage partner program enhancements

October 29, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Pure WaveMakers program for elite SEs highlights Pure Storage partner program enhancements
Pure Storage also announced new expanded incents around new logos and their Pure-as-a-Service offering, the availability of their Pure Sizer Tool for larger platforms, and the formal introduction of their new portal with role based learning tools, which became available several weeks ago.

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Cloud

NetApp’s strategic processes well-suited to World of cloud and COVID: CEO George Kurian

October 28, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp’s strategic processes well-suited to World of cloud and COVID: CEO George Kurian
NetApp’s CEO kicked off NetApp INSIGHT with the same kind of precise and combative address he generally gives in his non-virtual speeches, and explained NetApp’s strategy and why he thinks it will help customers address current problems.

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Storage

StorCentric unveils software-only Data Mobility Suite

October 27, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorCentric unveils software-only Data Mobility Suite
StorCentric is the holding company that owns enterprise storage brands Nexsan and Vexata, and the SMB-focused Drobo and Retrospect, is releasing to GA the first solution under the StorCentric brand with the software Data Mobility.

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Artificial Intelligence

WekaIO introduces new cloud-native Accelerated DataOps data management solution

October 27, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on WekaIO introduces new cloud-native Accelerated DataOps data management solution
The new cloud-native solution is built on the WekaFS file system, and integrated into unified storage solutions though reference architectures with object storage Technology Alliance partner vendors like AWS, Cloudian, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Seagate, Quantum, and Scality.

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Cloud

NetApp expands Spot serverless solution for containers to storageless

October 26, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp expands Spot serverless solution for containers to storageless
Together with NetApp Cloud Manager, and NetApp Virtual Desktop Management services, which are also being announced at NetApp Insight, NetApp is unveiling a differentiated suite of applications for both traditional and cloud partners to sell.

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Storage

Infinidat tweaks channel management to sell datacentre storage in age of COVID

October 23, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Infinidat tweaks channel management to sell datacentre storage in age of COVID
Enterprise storage provider Infinidat has been doing well in 2020, despite the fact that they sell expensive on-prem storage to enterprises in the middle of a pandemic. That has involved getting more from the channel […]
Storage

Open source storage vendor iXsystems launches scale-out HCI software, new single-controller R-series hardware

October 20, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Open source storage vendor iXsystems launches scale-out HCI software, new single-controller R-series hardware
The new TrueNAS SCALE rounds out the company’s software options, while the R-Series, which addresses non-mission critical use cases, and can still scale to huge capacities when paired with the HCI software, adds to the hardware options.

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Software

NetApp beefs up software portfolio with enhanced ONTAP, expanded Keystone and cloud SolidFire

October 20, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp beefs up software portfolio with enhanced ONTAP, expanded Keystone and cloud SolidFire
The ONTAP changes are highly significant and include the addition of both continuous data availability and S3 object services.

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Storage

Scale-out vendor Quobyte scales up security, policy engine functionality in 3.0 release

October 13, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale-out vendor Quobyte scales up security, policy engine functionality in 3.0 release
The security enhancements include end-to-end AES data encryption, TLS support, an X.509 digital certificate and new Kubernetes support.

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Software

Rancher Labs enhances user experience, expands use cases in new product release

October 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rancher Labs enhances user experience, expands use cases in new product release
The 2.5 release of the Rancher platform also adds the ability to deliver GitOps capabilities at scale, improved Amazon EKS cluster management, and a broader version of the government version of their platform.

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Backup

Commvault Metallic targets Commvault install base with new Metallic Cloud Storage Service

October 6, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault Metallic targets Commvault install base with new Metallic Cloud Storage Service
The new cloud service is designed to give Commvault customers an easy-button option to establish a cloud backup on Azure.

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Backup

Veeam buys Kasten as flurry of Kubernetes management acquisitions continues

October 5, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam buys Kasten as flurry of Kubernetes management acquisitions continues
Veeam sees Kasten’s technology with its focus on the application perspective and strong suitability for backup and DR use cases as highly synergistic with itself

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Cloud

Dell emphasizes centrality of VMware relationship with VMWorld announcements

September 29, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell emphasizes centrality of VMware relationship with VMWorld announcements
Dell Technologies’ VMworld announcements include enhancements to VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, tighter integration between VMware Cloud Director and Dell Technologies Cloud Platform, new support for VMware Tanzu, and a series of storage and data protection announcements.

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Hyper-converged

Hitachi Vantara adds new automation, scalability and channel bundles to HCI portfolio

September 23, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara adds new automation, scalability and channel bundles to HCI portfolio
The Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) 4.0 release makes significant enhances to Hitachi UCP Advisor, and adds important new SAP and VMware certifications.

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Storage

Pure Storage steps up Kubernetes data services capabilities with Portworx acquisition

September 16, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage steps up Kubernetes data services capabilities with Portworx acquisition
Pure will use Portworx’s cloud native capabilities as a layer on top of their own solutions, as many joint customers have been using them, but is also using Portworx and its executive team as the foundation of a new Cloud Native Business Unit.

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Storage

Cloudian introduces full Kubernetes support with Kubernetes S3 Operator

August 27, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudian introduces full Kubernetes support with Kubernetes S3 Operator
Kubernetes S3 Operator provides full Kubernetes portability which meets the needs of both DevOps and production workloads, while cutting costs up to 60%.

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