2013 will be the last year for EMC’s Velocity partner programs. Kicking off its second-ever Global Partner Summit in Las Vegas Monday morning

Data Centre

Changes in the market benefit Tech Data’s unique model: Quaglia

November 3, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Changes in the market benefit Tech Data’s unique model: Quaglia
Monday is the kickoff for both the launch in Canada of the full StreamOne e-business platform in Canada and the internal realignment of Tech Data Canada’s sales division along the same lines as the AIS in the U.S.

Operating Systems

Pure Storage joins OpenStack Foundation, announces two OpenStack solutions

October 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage joins OpenStack Foundation, announces two OpenStack solutions
Pure sees OpenStack as providing a great services opportunity to help customers adapt OpenStack for private clouds, since it is necessary to help them adapt OpenStack to different customer circumstances.

Channel Programs

RackWare unveils first formal channel program

October 7, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on RackWare unveils first formal channel program
RackWare is not yet using distribution in North America, but distributors growing role as cloud aggregators or brokers means they will likely look at this next year.

Data Centre

Dimension Data rolls out globally standardized managed services for data centres

September 16, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dimension Data rolls out globally standardized managed services for data centres
The solution provider looks to capitalize on a trend where 70 per cent of private cloud adopters will utilize third parties to manage their environments.

Yury Larichev, president of backup vendor Acronis
Cloud

In growth push, Acronis redefines backup

May 6, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off on In growth push, Acronis redefines backup
Acronis believes its path to growth and success is not in making a better product, but rather redefining what it means to back up data in workloads context.