At its partner event, Asigra discussed its continuing strategy for keeping itself and its partners competitive in a world of sinking backup margins, including new ways to cut partners’ hardware costs and create new revenue opportunities for them.
Partners asked Asigra to provide an integration with the AWS cloud because AWS prices now make it feasible to use it and make money.
Hybrid IT isn’t a waypoint on the way to the cloud, it’s the right long-term approach for enterprises, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says ahead of VMworld.
Nutanix believes the ability to offer public cloud capacity, together with a more powerful appliance, will make them the go-to vendor for any enterprise converged infrastructure project.
RackWare’s new disaster recovery capability in its cloud workload portability offering should enhance its growing appeal to VARs
New backup appliances include the DL 1000, Dell’s first purpose-built for SMB, an area of strength for the Round Rock, Tex. vendor.
Microsoft claims great momentum for its Azure cloud offerings. But making it available to partners through open licensing should cause further acceleration.
Microsoft is still lagging behind Amazon Web Services in the cloud wars, but it’s gaining fast as cloud sales skyrocketed in the first quarter.
EMC says its new appliance allows enterprises and service providers to operate cloud storage cheaper than the big public cloud providers’ storage offerings.
IBM is offering partners incentives, profitability enhancements and support for its SoftLayer cloud computing services.
Solution providers looking to place bets in cloud efforts should consider the nature of the community over the nature of its technology, Jim Whitehust says.
CEO Heins: “In five years, I don’t there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.”
Cloud infrastructure business has become the latest billion-dollar business for Redmond
