Current LANDESK CEO Steve Daly will become CEO of the new company – as yet unnamed. HEAT CEO John Ferron becomes the Executive Chairman of the new company’s Board of Directors.
The IGEL UD Pocket measures 22.4mm x 12.2mm x 6mm, and weighs 3 grams.
Workspot, which has been challenging Citrix and VMware with its simple to deploy cloud VDI offering, is announcing a version tightly integrated with Azure that they expect will become the flagship product.
Veeam has also introduced new bundles with HPE and with Cisco, which are now available through Ingram Micro.
The next-generation replacement for the Dell Wyse 5020 is 30 per cent faster than its predecessor.
IGEL is also changing the way the system is licensed, moving to recurring revenue model with a choice of one or three year maintenance plans which include the upgrade to the new version.
Fine also acknowledged some VMware partner concern over the company’s new relationship with Dell, which does much more of its business direct than VMware has historically, and indicated her commitment to standing behind the partner community.
At a large customer meeting in Toronto, VMware execs emphasized how the company has moved beyond its virtualization base into digital transformation, and how they have fleshed out their strategy this year.
Nutanix is announcing several new networking new capabilities which they believe are critical to their ultimate goal of doing in the private cloud space what AWS did in the public space. Availability of some of this is still a while off, however.
Apcera is now emphatically branding its platform as an enterprise-grade container management platform, believing that the container market has matured to the point where the platform’s purpose and assets will now be clear.
The new Atlantis integration with Citrix brings its VDI infrastructure directly into Citrix management interfaces, while the new partnering with Rancher Labs integrates Atlantis’ management interface with theirs to better manage containers.
The most common use case for the new single node Scale Computing configuration will be providing ROBO capabilities and disaster recovery in conjunction with traditional three node appliances.
Dell EMC has announced upgrades to its hyper-converged VxRail and VxRack offerings, with hardware improvement stemming both from Intel Broadwell processors and optimization with PowerEdge servers. Many more configurations will be available, including a 3 node VxRail offering that drops the entry price by a quarter.
Both Scale and Workspot extend their partnering strategies to produce a simple turnkey VDI solution well timed with Citrix’s end of lifing of its VDI-in-a-Box offering.
The Information Builders partnership is the first in a strategy designed to provide Scale partners with additional software services, turning their hardware platform into an App Store of sorts.
Zerto, which sells entirely through partners, is expanding its routes to market with this deal, which it expects will be only the first of multiple such major initiatives.
Nutanix makes its first foray into acquiring other people’s technology with a pair of deals designed to enhance their storage-class memory systems and improve their cloud automation and management capabilities.
The interesting thing here is that Nutanix has expanded the Cisco support on its own, without Cisco being involved in the validation process. That supports the two companies’ earlier stated position that no partnership where Nutanix would be sold on UCS was in the works. This move may, however, indicate that Nutanix is trying to create momentum towards it.
Intronis MSPs who want a virtual appliance can now leverage the virtual appliance technology from Barracuda to obtain it.
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