At VeeamON, Veeam announced several significant new innovations in their flagship product, which will be released later this year.
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Continuous Data Protection among highlights of new Veeam Availability Suite
by Mark Cox •
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Making Veeam VCSP/reseller partnerships work
by Mark Cox •
A VeeamON panel featured a frank discussion with VCSPs and their reseller partners on how resellers can partner effectively to get into the cloud, and overcoming the inevitable hurdles on the way.
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Data Centre, Storage, Virtualization
Nutanix targets large enterprises with IBM Power Systems partnership
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix’s latest full-blown vendor partnership will see them strengthen their presence in the high end of the market, with product that will be sold by IBM and its channel.
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Cloud is focus of partner programmatic announcements at VeeamON
by Mark Cox •
New initiatives include a Veeam Accredited Service Partner program, the release candidate of a new Veeam Availability Console and new multi-tenancy in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365.
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Veeam outlines channel strategy to get to $1.5 billion in revenues by 2020
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Veeam’s aggressive growth strategy is based in large part on grabbing share from competitors, and at the Partner Day at their VeeamOn event, they outlined their broad strategy to partners.
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Workspot adds second partner program for Cloud Consultant partners
by Mark Cox •
SaaS-based Workspot is creating the new channel program specifically for cloud-focused partners, following the strong growth of their business this year around Microsoft Azure.
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Tech Data adapts VMware plug-ins to enhance Dell EMC hyper-converged solutions
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Tech Data is now using cloud services it acquired with Avnet Technology Solutions that were created for VMware vRealize to enhance automation for VxRail and VxRack environments.
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Data Centre, Servers, Storage, Virtualization
Nutanix announces new software validations for HPE, Cisco servers
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Nutanix also announced Nutanix Go, a program that allows acquisition of their appliances on a cloud-like purchase model, but for now, it’s only available in the U.S.
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Hyper-V specialist backup vendor Altaro officially launches in North America
by Mark Cox •
Malta-based Altaro simultaneously announced the version 7 of their VM Backup, which was originally a Hyper-V backup solution, but has also supported VMware environments since Version 6.
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Dell refreshes low end of thin client lineup with new quad-core Wyse 3040 model
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The quad-core processor in the Dell new low-end thin client will be able to handle demanding apps like Skype for Business, which strained the resources of earlier models with less powerful processors.
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IBM announces Red Hat partnership, expands ones with Veritas and NetApp
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IBM’s new partnering announcements are focused on expanding opportunities for other vendors’ customers to use the IBM cloud.
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Barracuda Liveboot 2.0 adds Hyper-V support, speeds up boot times, enhances UI
by Mark Cox •
The faster reboot time applies in both VMware and Microsoft environments, and allows new machines to be spun up in a couple of minutes.
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NComputing adds higher end VDI capabilities by acquiring VERDE Workspaces
by Mark Cox •
VERDE, formerly Virtual Bridges, has higher end capabilities that will allow NComputing to offer a full-stack, end-to-end solution.
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Veeam expands Cisco relationship with unique snapshot integration with Cisco HyperFlex
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Veeam is the first availability vendor to be deeply integrated with the new 2.0 version of Cisco’s HyperFlex hyper-converged platform, which will be good news for joint Veeam and Cisco partners.
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Massive partner recruitment a key goal of new Scale Computing channel program
by Mark Cox •
The restructured Scale program accommodates managed service providers for the first time, and also makes provision for referral partners.
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Mobility, Virtualization
New IGEL Cloud Gateway software looks to improve support of off-network endpoints
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IGEL, which greatly strengthened its presence in North America last year, has mainly ramped up in the U.S. to date, but is planning a push in Canada this year.
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Barracuda adds virtual and public cloud firewalls for MSPs
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Barracuda thinks that adding these other MSP firewall options will let MSPs create strong services packages with high appeal to customers.
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Dell collaborates with Citrix on new XenDesktop VXRail solution
by Mark Cox •
The offering with Citrix provides the same capabilities of the latest version of a VMRail VMware solution announced at last year’s Dell EMC World, and gives Dell partners an offering for their Citrix focused customers.
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Citrix outlines channel priorities for 2017 at Summit partner event
by Mark Cox •
Citrix’s new global channel chief also indicates that some simplifications of the program are in the works to make it easier to do business with Citrix – but likely not until 2018.
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HPE, Atlantis kick off new hyper-converged infrastructure Citrix Ready program
by Mark Cox •
Citrix has announced the Citrix Ready HCI Workspace Appliance Program, with Atlantis and HPE collaborating with Citrix on the first offering in it, the HPE Intelligent Edge Workspace. It is a turnkey virtual workspace appliance with mid-market simplicity and pricing.
