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X-IO Technologies rebrands as Axellio to focus on edge and HCI after selling storage business to Violin

Axellio has only had its new product portfolio on the market for a little over a year, but has met with a strong response for their edge solutions in the performance part of the market, and just introduced a new HCI solution in partnership with Microsoft that is based on the Microsoft software-defined stack.

Dell EMC adds Cyber Recovery software and services to data protection portfolio

The new Cyber Recovery software is an orchestration add-on to Data Domain software, and is offered at no cost with it. While the main interest is from the high end of the customer pyramid, Dell EMC expects there will be a significant channel play.

Zerto sets the table for next year’s Zerto 7 convergence with Zerto 6.5 release

Zerto 6.5 has new feature enhancements, which will be of particular interest to Cloud Service Providers, but the most significant news here is more likely the continued moves towards their upcoming version, which they see as a massively disruptive offering.

Veritas partners with Pure Storage on joint solution around Pure’s data hub architecture

The joint solution is targeted at larger customers, and will initially go to market through a select number of the two companies’ joint channel partners, before having its availability broadened out subsequently.

Splunk creates ‘better together’ security story with expanded suite of security offerings

Splunk adds Phantom’s remediation capabilities to complete their end-to-end security story, while announcing new versions of their SIEM and User BBehavior Analytics software.

SwiftStack expands market presence with new partnership with Splunk around Splunk SmartStore

SwiftStack sees their new partnership with Spunk around the new SmartStore feature within the Splunk Enterprise platform as offering enormous new opportunities for SwiftStack, in making them attractive to customers who would never have considered them before.

Splunk creates full Internet of Things offering with Splunk Industrial IoT

Splunk announced its first full Internet of Things offering, with a bundle that combines Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence, introduced earlier this year, with the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, to provide a full IoT solution with both predictive analysis and customization capability.

New OEM and system integrator tracks highlight channel announcements at Spunk .conf

The new tracks – the last of those likely for specific types of partners – were announced at this event, and will go live at next year’s Global Partner Summit. Other channel changes include some enhancements to the certification process.

Retuned Violin rolls out first of new products aimed at their target extreme performance market

Violin System introduces its first new product since it resurrected from bankruptcy, a NVMe fabric, ultra-low latency offering aimed at the extreme performance market, which is now the focus of Violin’s efforts.

Splunk adds specific KPI predictive analytics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.0

The general ramp up of the ITSI predictive analytics solution also includes new integrations with VictorOps and Splunk App for Infrastructure.

Hitachi Vantara channel partners climbing the Stairway to Value

With a year in the books since the launch of Hitachi Vantara, and five months into a brand new partner program, the company looks at the evolution of the channel changes that accompanied its own reinvention of itself, and what more remains to be done.

Microsoft Ignite Preview: Security, AI and the Edge

Microsoft is making literally dozens of announcements at the event, with Microsoft Authenticator, which the company says will end the era of passwords, and a new Microsoft Search at the top of all 365 apps likely to catch the most headlines.

Information Builders gives WebFOCUS platform modernized UI to drive much greater adoption

Information Builders has enhanced the analytics capabilities in their platform, but the big news with this release is the UI changes, designed to make it much easier for a broader range of users to work with.

Dell EMC tinkers with cloud-enabled infrastructure solutions portfolio

There were few – actually no – major Dell EMC new product announcements made around their cloud infrastructure portfolio at VMworld. There were a lot of little ones, however, as well as some overarching messaging about focus and strategy.

Pivot3 unveils new ruggedized HCI hybrid cloud solution for ‘tactical edge’ operations

The big opportunity here is for Pivot3 partners who sell into the military/intel part of the U.S. defense space, but other NATO countries can be sold it as well, and it also has other use cases in rugged environments.

Coaxing telecom resellers to move beyond hardware still mission – and challenge – for ADTRAN

The nature of the MSP business means ADTRAN has had more success there with their ProCloud Subscription Services, and the company is aggressively recruiting there for new partners. ADTRAN is also about to introduce a new service, which they say even most MSPs are not yet selling.

Cohesity introduces Helios SaaS-based orchestration and management solution

Helios is the first SaaS-based application on top of the Cohesity platform, something that was always part of the company’s vision, and which provides new data and app orchestration and management capabilities.