Tag Archive for appliance

Hitachi deepens IoT play with new Hitachi Video Analytics

Hitachi adds a Video Analytics solution to its Internet of Things portfolio, which also includes the Hitachi Video Management Platform and the Hitachi Visualization Suite.

Webroot targets different partner segments with three new product announcements

Webroot SecureAnywhere DNS Protection is aimed at the SMB MSP market, while Webroot FlowScape Analytics is more for MSSPs and Webroot BrightCloud Streaming Malware Detection is primarily an OEM play.

Barracuda refreshes its entire lineup of backup appliances

Memory, performance and capacity have been increased, with capacity on the physical models going up from 100 per cent in the entry level appliances, to between 15-30 per cent in the high end ones.

NetApp unveils small form factor version of top of the line all flash array

The NetApp AFF A700s is aimed at customers looking to improve their data centre economics by significantly reducing physical footprint. NetApp also announced an updating and reworking of its storage capacity guarantee.

HPE, Atlantis kick off new hyper-converged infrastructure Citrix Ready program

Citrix has announced the Citrix Ready HCI Workspace Appliance Program, with Atlantis and HPE collaborating with Citrix on the first offering in it, the HPE Intelligent Edge Workspace. It is a turnkey virtual workspace appliance with mid-market simplicity and pricing.

Partner tiering, accreditation changes on horizon for Lenovo

Lenovo’s increased emphasis over the last year on elements in the server space that go well beyond 1P and 2P servers is leading to some significant programmatic changes coming in 2017.

Scale Computing addresses ‘smallest of the small’ with one node hyper-converged appliance

The most common use case for the new single node Scale Computing configuration will be providing ROBO capabilities and disaster recovery in conjunction with traditional three node appliances.

Lenovo creates new appliance-centric ThinkAgile portfolio

ThinkAgile will initially consist of three components: their existing HX offerings with Nutanix software, beefed up with Lenovo networking; the newly announced CX line from a new partnership with Nimble Storage; and new OpenStack-based offerings that will first be limited to China, and eventually roll into other geos.

Nimble Storage sees huge opportunity in Lenovo partnership

For Nimble, the Lenovo partnership massively expands their route to market, with a series of new appliances that combine the two companies’ technology, and which will go to market through Lenovo and its channel.

ZeroStack adds deployment option on existing servers for their ‘cloud-in-a-box’ appliance

While other companies offer a similar type of product, ZeroStack sees a competitive advantage in what it claims is the broadest range of customer choice in the way it can be deployed.

Scale Computing adds BI capability for SMBs with Information Builders partnership

The Information Builders partnership is the first in a strategy designed to provide Scale partners with additional software services, turning their hardware platform into an App Store of sorts.

SmartFile enhances channel program in push to expand enterprise channel business

Tyler Snetselaar has been named Director of Strategic Alliances and Channel Partnerships, as SmartFile looks to expand its channel presence, especially among systems integrators serving the enterprise.

Oracle urges partners to climb into cloud at Oracle PartnerNetwork kickoff event

While much of the event was based on emphasizing Oracle’s commitment to the cloud, they did announce a new program to help ISVs into the cloud.

HDS targets midmarket with expanded UCP 2000 and new hyper-converged offering

The HC V240, HDS’ first hyper-converged appliance, is based on the VMware stack, but the hyper-converged road map is likely to broaden out beyond that.

New Dell Validated System for SAP HANA Edge to bring HANA to SMBs

Other Dell SAP-related initiatives announced at SAPPHIRE NOW included ones around the Internet of Things, cloud blueprints to optimize SAP environments, and a new optimized architecture for SAP Foundation for Health.

KEMP 2.0 releases KEMP360 application delivery framework

The new two-component application infrastructure monitoring and management solution is aimed at the enterprise, where the former SMB-focused vendor has been increasingly looking for new business.

Scale Computing integrates flash into tiering to strengthen SMB hyper-converged offering

Scale’s new HEAT technology brings flash into hybrid tiering, with all the performance benefits of using flash for a tier rather than just a cache. The challenge here was not introducing flash, but doing so in a way that would not increase complexity, and would be cost-effective for SMBs.