Analytics

Big Data

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

October 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Backup

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

October 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Big Data

New plug and play applications highlight Looker 6 platform release

October 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New plug and play applications highlight Looker 6 platform release
BI provider Looker is kicking off their JOIN 2018 event in San Francisco with the launch of the latest version of their platform

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst
Software

Red Hat aims to be the disruptor that aids the disrupted

October 10, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Red Hat aims to be the disruptor that aids the disrupted
Red Hat sees opportunity for partners as more customers come to the open source software giant seeking help with their own digital transformation strategies.

Backup

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

October 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Artificial Intelligence

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

October 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Big Data

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

October 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Big Data

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

October 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Big Data

Splunk creates full Internet of Things offering with Splunk Industrial IoT

October 3, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.

Big Data

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

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on 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.