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Asigra lays out strategy for prosperity in potentially tough cloud backup world

June 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

Asigra selects AWS as first third party provider to expand partner cloud infrastructure options

December 9, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Partners asked Asigra to provide an integration with the AWS cloud because AWS prices now make it feasible to use it and make money.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger at VMworld 2014.

VMware’s Gelsinger: Hybrid is the endgame

August 25, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

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 adds hybrid cloud, high performance appliance

August 19, 2014 Mark Cox 1

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 adds DR to cloud management solution

July 28, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

RackWare’s new disaster recovery capability in its cloud workload portability offering should enhance its growing appeal to VARs

Dell rolls out two new backup appliances, latest AppAssure release

July 15, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

New backup appliances include the DL 1000, Dell’s first purpose-built for SMB, an area of strength for the Round Rock, Tex. vendor.

Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise Group

Microsoft adds Azure to Open Licensing

July 14, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Microsoft claims great momentum for its Azure cloud offerings. But making it available to partners through open licensing should cause further acceleration.

Microsoft big winner in cloud growth

May 13, 2014 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

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.

Jeremy Burton, president of EMC’s Information Infrastructure business

EMC debuts Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance

May 8, 2014 Robert Dutt 1

EMC says its new appliance allows enterprises and service providers to operate cloud storage cheaper than the big public cloud providers’ storage offerings.