appliance

Cloud

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

June 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra lays out strategy for prosperity in potentially tough cloud backup world
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.

Cloud

New Asigra appliance to hedge against coming flat zero backup prices

June 16, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Asigra appliance to hedge against coming flat zero backup prices
In a grim future of zero backup pricing, Asigra’s CEO told partners their future profitability – and survival – depends on their ability to build trust with the customer, and on their ability to sell additional services around it. An archiving capability, centred on Asigra’s new appliance, is a key part of this.

Hardware

Connected Data augments NAS with Transporter Network Storage Connector

June 15, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Connected Data augments NAS with Transporter Network Storage Connector
The free Connector front-ends a NAS device, allowing the Transporter appliance to sync important files and folders seamlessly to users’ laptops and mobile devices, to overcome NAS’s limitations with mobility.

Virtualization

Dell continues VDI appliance push with VMware EVO:RAIL Horizon Edition appliance

May 22, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell continues VDI appliance push with VMware EVO:RAIL Horizon Edition appliance
Dell becomes the first vendor to offer a hyper-converged end-to-end VDI appliance for EVO:RAIL, which becomes its fifth different VDI appliance in five months, as the company intensifies its emphasis on the space

Cloud

Axcient targets remote and branch offices, smaller businesses with Direct to Cloud offering

May 18, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Axcient targets remote and branch offices, smaller businesses with Direct to Cloud offering
The new cloud-only solution is targeted at customers who don’t want the expense or trouble or deploying a physical or virtual device locally, and is expected to significantly increase the number of Axcient’s MSP partners.

Small Business

New Dell VDI appliance designed to bring Citrix to smaller customers

May 12, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Dell VDI appliance designed to bring Citrix to smaller customers
At Citrix Synergy, Dell also announced new versions of two related software solutions, Dell Wyse Device Manager 5.5 and Foglight for Virtualization 8.2.

Big Data

HDS announces new HANA converged solutions in Big Data analytics push

May 8, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on HDS announces new HANA converged solutions in Big Data analytics push
Hitachi’s Social Innovation strategy is designed to leverage analytics to drive their companies forward, and the new SAP HANA solutions are part of this strategy for HDS.

Channel Programs

Connected Data unveils partner program to support Transporter appliances

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Connected Data unveils partner program to support Transporter appliances
While the sync and share market is hot, cloud-based offerings have limited revenue potential for the channel, something that the Transporter private cloud appliances are designed to address.

Networking

Citrix CloudBridge Virtual WAN to provide ‘always-on’ branch availability

April 27, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix CloudBridge Virtual WAN to provide ‘always-on’ branch availability
Available as a physical or virtual appliance, the new offering is designed to provide reliability at reasonable cost to server-less remote locations which are about as helpless as Chromebooks if network access is lost.