Storage

Distribution

StorMagic signs on Arrow to distribute its ROBO-focused virtual storage solution in North America

March 25, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorMagic signs on Arrow to distribute its ROBO-focused virtual storage solution in North America
StorMagic is looking to re-engage with the channel and build up a strong channel business for its sophisticated solution aimed and priced for SMBs and ROBO environments, which will include more strong Canadian partners.

Storage

Scality simplifies RING 5.0 software installation to facilitate channel installs

March 25, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scality simplifies RING 5.0 software installation to facilitate channel installs
A reseller agreement announced last fall with HP led Scality to greatly simplify their software installation, which had previously required Scality to be involved because of the complexity.

Storage

Rubrik looks to redefine backup with converged scale-out platform with Apple-like experience

March 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik looks to redefine backup with converged scale-out platform with Apple-like experience
Rubrik sees itself as a threat to every backup vendor, with an offering that will focus on the mid-market at first, and will be sold 100 per cent through the channel.

Big Data

EMC Federation Business Data Lake to be strong play for top partners

March 23, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC Federation Business Data Lake to be strong play for top partners
The Federation Business Data Lake greatly expands EMC’s converged Big Data offerings, and while only EMC’s more sophisticated partners will likely be able to sell it, it will be available to them.

Channel Programs

Nimble adds net-new benefits to partners with first formal partner program

March 18, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nimble adds net-new benefits to partners with first formal partner program
The three new partner tiers all have revenue and certification requirements, and most partners will not qualify, but all partners, including those not in a tier, will receive the benefits Nimble has been providing until now, as all the new benefits to the tiers are net-new.

Hardware

Huawei, DataCore partner on hyper-converged solutions

March 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Huawei, DataCore partner on hyper-converged solutions
The DataCore-Huawei offerings are targeted at larger customers than the midmarket and lower end of the enterprise where other hyperconverged vendors have been most successful to date.

Storage

Nutanix unveils rigorous multi-hypervisor hyper-converged certification program

March 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix unveils rigorous multi-hypervisor hyper-converged certification program
Nutanix aims to create the equivalent of a Cisco CCIE certification for the hyperconverged world, that will establish its thought leadership, with a demanding certification program that tests the ability to design solutions on multiple hypervisors.

Storage

Condusiv releases first fragmentation prevention solution for SANs

March 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Condusiv releases first fragmentation prevention solution for SANs
Condusiv’s Diskeeper 15 Server is the first fragmentation protection for SAN storage connected to physical servers. It prevents fragmentation in real time at the logical disk layer, increasing IO density so more data can be processed.

Storage

Much larger drive capacity highlights enhanced Drobo top-of-the-line release

March 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Much larger drive capacity highlights enhanced Drobo top-of-the-line release
Drobo’s BeyondRAID technology also gets a boost, so that when you add a new drive it will configure the RAID array 800 per cent faster than before.

Big Data

Qumulo breaks stealth with data-aware scale-out NAS

March 16, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Qumulo breaks stealth with data-aware scale-out NAS
Qumulo’s software, sold as 1U appliance nodes, integrates real-time data analytics directly into storage, to make data and storage resources much more visible. They sell only through the channel.