Storage

Storage

Citrix acquisition of Sanbolic to make life easier for Citrix partners

January 12, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix acquisition of Sanbolic to make life easier for Citrix partners
The deal is all about increasing simplicity of operations inside of IT, and making it easier to deploy Citrix solutions, for both customers and partners.

Shawn Massey on selling disaster recovery
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What is Recoverability?

January 12, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on What is Recoverability?
Storagecraft uses”Recoverability” as its mantra. In this video interview, Shawn Massey explains what the term means to Storagecraft and its partners.

Storage

NexGen spinoff out of SanDisk to return to all-channel model

January 9, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on NexGen spinoff out of SanDisk to return to all-channel model
While NexGen’s R&D and overall sales benefitted significantly from being part of larger companies, moving forward they believe they will be in a stronger position to satisfy customers as a separate company.

Nimble Storage SmartStack flash storage
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How flash storage is accelerating converged infrastructure deployments

December 16, 2014 Guest Poster Comments Off on How flash storage is accelerating converged infrastructure deployments
Avnet Technology Solutions offers its views on why flash storage is proving a transformative technology in the converged infrastructure market.

Cloud

New version of EMC Avamar Virtual Edition integrates with Azure

December 16, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on New version of EMC Avamar Virtual Edition integrates with Azure
Azure becomes the first public cloud supported by Avamar outside the EMC federation.

Cloud

N-able expands Arcserve relationship with Arcserve UDP

December 11, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on N-able expands Arcserve relationship with Arcserve UDP
N-able expands on its relationship with arcserve to carry the arcserve next-gen UDP solution for the first time, which is branded as N-able Backup Manager UDP.

Data Centre

Pure Storage enters converged infrastructure market with all-flash FlashStack solutions

December 11, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage enters converged infrastructure market with all-flash FlashStack solutions
Two solutions were announced, both of which use Cisco and VMware as partners, but more converged all-flash solutions are coming from Pure, and these will use additional vendor partners as well.

Cloud

Asigra selects AWS as first third party provider to expand partner cloud infrastructure options

December 9, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra selects AWS as first third party provider to expand partner cloud infrastructure options
Partners asked Asigra to provide an integration with the AWS cloud because AWS prices now make it feasible to use it and make money.

Software

Enhanced DFS namespace automation highlights Data DynamicsStorageX 7.5 release

December 8, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Enhanced DFS namespace automation highlights Data DynamicsStorageX 7.5 release
Improved automation of Microsoft’s DFS global namespace management capability highlights this release.

Storage

Canadian retailers ring up low scores in backup protection in new EMC-sponsored study

December 5, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canadian retailers ring up low scores in backup protection in new EMC-sponsored study
EMC Canada’s Michael Sharun also stressed that channel partners (and sales people generally) need to do a better job of adding backup and recovery to their storage sales.