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Expanded HPE partnership makes Cohesity an OEM partner and greatly expands go-to-market motion

November 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Expanded HPE partnership makes Cohesity an OEM partner and greatly expands go-to-market motion
Long-time HPE partner Cohesity expects to see major go-to-market gains from the expanded relationship, which makes HPE more likely to position Cohesity aggressively in takeaway deals, and further encourages HPE salespeople to sell Cohesity.

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Cloud

Extension of HPE InfoSight across infrastructure highlights flurry of intelligent storage news at HPE Discover

November 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Extension of HPE InfoSight across infrastructure highlights flurry of intelligent storage news at HPE Discover
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.

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Backup

Commvault continues to build out strategic go-to-market relationships with major expansion of NetApp partnership

October 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault continues to build out strategic go-to-market relationships with major expansion of NetApp partnership
Commvault’s head of Worldwide Partners and Market Development comments on the significance of the new NetApp relationship as part of Commvault’s broader strategy, and indicated customers and partners can look for more such relationships.

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Backup

Druva significantly ramps up AWS capabilities with speedy completion of CloudRanger integration

July 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Druva significantly ramps up AWS capabilities with speedy completion of CloudRanger integration
Druva bought CloudRanger to respond to customer requests to be able to better handle cloud workloads on AWS, and executed the integration quickly because both companies were cloud-native with identical vertical stacks.

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Data Centre

HPE unveils high-density SimpliVity HCI solution for space-constrained environments

July 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE unveils high-density SimpliVity HCI solution for space-constrained environments
The HPE SimplVity 2600, which is the first SimpliVity that is entirely software-optimized, is being pitched at the VDI market to start, but the company thinks its flexibility will eventually take it beyond that.

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Partnerships

German software-defined archiving company iTernity sees strong expansion potential in strategic HPE alliance

July 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on German software-defined archiving company iTernity sees strong expansion potential in strategic HPE alliance
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.

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Partnerships

Cyberinc brings isolation-based cybersecurity protection to HPE Complete program

June 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cyberinc brings isolation-based cybersecurity protection to HPE Complete program
Isolation-based security is a fairly new technology, with Symantec being the best-known vendor in the space, but Cyberinc thinks that the additional security value they bring to the table will resonate with HPE’s own core messaging.

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Storage

Scality introduces new 3-server HPE Apollo configurations for lower entry point

June 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scality introduces new 3-server HPE Apollo configurations for lower entry point
The new configurations were facilitated by some of the enhancements in the new Scality RING 7.4 software, which has improving ease of use as its primary focus.

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Backup

Commvault continues expanding existing alliances, joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise Complete

March 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault continues expanding existing alliances, joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise Complete
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.

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Partnerships

Scality, HPE expand partnership with new HPE Apollo 4000 integration

November 20, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scality, HPE expand partnership with new HPE Apollo 4000 integration
The enhancement of an existing relationship between the two companies sees the jointly engineered appliance get a new unified management interface.

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