Several other significant intelligent storage announcements were also made, including a new Workload Planner utility for InfoSight, new Docker and Kubernetes support for HPE Cloud Volumes, the extension of Peer Persistence from HPE 3PAR to HPE Nimble – and the introduction of HPE Memory-Driven Flash, first for 3PAR, and for Nimble next year.
Commvault is making several extremely significant strategic partnership announcements at their GO event. The one with HPE extends an existing relationship, so in terms of new business, may not be as significant in terms of new revenues, but it is still important as clear statement of their go-to-market strategy.
ITernity has many ISV integrations, and a 100 per cent channel strategy, but its participation in the HPE Complete program to drive business through HPE and their channel is critical to their strategy.
Veeam CEO Peter McKay credited Veeam’s expansion of their strategic relationships as critical to their success in 2017, and indicated they plan significant further expansion here going forward.
The expansion of Commvault go-to-market abilities with HPE comes on the heels of the expansion of theirInfinidat technology integration into a go-to-market relationship, and last year’s similar agreement with Cisco.
HPE also announces a replacement for its mid-range 3PAR 8450 all-flash array, a Nimble secondary flash array and both new and enhanced storage software.
As all-flash grows in importance, HPE is emphasizing the importance of how the infrastructure beyond the flash array itself impacts orchestration and protects data.
The program, from the HPE 3Par storage group, is targeted at keeping storage that may otherwise go to public cloud in the data centre.
All-flash has been a many-faceted boon to the channel, and HPE’s new announcements will add some new opportunities for the company’s partners
The new NetScaler T1000 incorporates the ByteMobile optimization software within the NetScaler appliance for improved mobile traffic handling.
Net-new offerings include 3PAR Flash Acceleration for Oracle and the 3PAR StoreServ 8200 Converged File and Block Starter Kit.
While converged backup is becoming more common, Infrascale’s offering, which includes WAN optimization and a cloud gateway, is unique.
The 7440c Converged Flash Array gives the same performance as an all-flash array, while adding the affordability and flexibility of adding spinning media. It is aimed at the high midmarket through the enterprise.
EMC’s latest purchase will help it get to all-flash arrays in the hundreds of terabytes, focusing on Big Data apps like Hadoop and SAP HANA.
As it claims market share wins against EMC, HP looks to make it easier for customers to migrate from its rival’s storage to its own 3Par platform.
HP’s XP7 update brings IT-as-a-service functionality introduced on 3Par into its traditional tier one storage architecture.
HP continues its drive towards purpose-built solution stacks with a Converged System for SAP’s popular in-memory database technology.
With pre-configured stacks of HP servers, storage, and networking, Avnet Technology Solutions says partners can more easily target customers data centers.
1,500 channel partners trained on new 7000 family products by launch day, HP says
