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Networking

Badu Networks addresses bandwidth underutilization with TCP acceleration solution

April 20, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Badu Networks addresses bandwidth underutilization with TCP acceleration solution
Badu uses its own congestion control algorithms to improve network performance, which makes its solutions compatible with others aimed at improving bandwidth. This appliance solution is aimed at the commercial space, and the plan is to ultimately have it as fully channel for its go-to-market.

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Data Centre

Dell strengthens EMC-VMware presence in its hyper-converged portfolio

April 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell strengthens EMC-VMware presence in its hyper-converged portfolio
Beefing up the offerings owned by organizations soon likely to be owned by Dell comes as no surprise, but the vendor also strongly restated its support for its Nutanix-based XC line, while beefing it up as well, and said it’s not going anywhere.

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Managed Services

Intronis dons Barracuda colours with new appliance, branding

March 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intronis dons Barracuda colours with new appliance, branding
Intronis is now Intronis MSP Solutions by Barracuda. They have also leveraged Barracuda’s hardware to provide an appliance option for partners, the Barracuda Backup – Intronis MSP Edition

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Data Centre

HPE stresses simplicity with new hyper-converged system for the midmarket

March 15, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE stresses simplicity with new hyper-converged system for the midmarket
The new appliance, built on the ProLiant DL 380, brings a new interface to HPE hyper-converged products, which the company says is extremely user-friendly and easy to use.

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Software

EMC-VMware VxRail appliance upgrades VSPEX Blue in VCE hyper-converged lineup

February 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC-VMware VxRail appliance upgrades VSPEX Blue in VCE hyper-converged lineup
VxRail has the same concept as last year’s unsuccessful EMC first foray into hyperconverged, but is designed to be much more flexible and modular, and benefits greatly from an improved software stack. It will also be available through all EMC partners, not just ones certified on VCE.

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Big Data

Improved search, all-in-one packaging highlight Caringo’s Swarm 8

February 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Improved search, all-in-one packaging highlight Caringo’s Swarm 8
Caringo sees its enhanced search capabilities as enabling Swarm’s ability to handle additional tasks, including facilitating Big Data analytics.

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Cloud

Artisan Infrastructure unveils Neverfail HybriStor Data Protection Virtual Appliance

February 10, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Artisan Infrastructure unveils Neverfail HybriStor Data Protection Virtual Appliance
Using patent-pending data optimization and dedupe technology from an acquisition, HybriStor brings enormous scalability and performance to object-based storage.

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Data Centre

Pivot3 looks to rule hyperconverged space with NexGen acquisition

January 28, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 looks to rule hyperconverged space with NexGen acquisition
The combination of the two companies give them what they believe are enormous synergies that can propel them to a leadership role in the hyperconverged space that neither company remotely aspired to when they were separate.

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Virtualization

Dell reaches into midmarket with new Dell Appliance for Wyse — Citrix

January 13, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell reaches into midmarket with new Dell Appliance for Wyse — Citrix
An appliance originally designed to bring Citrix into the low end of the market has had its scalability increased more than tenfold, now supporting up to 5000 users. Dell also announced its new ThinOS software, which now supports Skype for Business, and is backwards compatible into the existing install base.

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Data Centre

Nutanix adds another big strategic partnership with Lenovo deal

November 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix adds another big strategic partnership with Lenovo deal
Nutanix sees the Lenovo deal as equal in importance to the Dell one inked last year and said its announcement shortly after Dell’s purchase of EMC is a coincidence. The plan is to get jointly branded products to market through Lenovo in Q1 of 2016.

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Storage

Dell expands Nutanix XC series with two new models

October 22, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell expands Nutanix XC series with two new models
Dell introduces both its first all-flash appliances and a high-density offering in its popular XC hyperconverged series which combine Dell hardware and Nutanix software.

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Storage

Cohesity’s revolutionary converged secondary storage platform hits general availability

October 14, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity’s revolutionary converged secondary storage platform hits general availability
Led by the original co-founder of Nutanix, Cohesity aims to disrupt the market for secondary storage the same way Nutanix disrupted primary storage.

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Managed Services

New Datto offerings strengthen business continuity play

August 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Datto offerings strengthen business continuity play
Datto also reported a significant increase in support from key Canadian partners, part of the ramifications from their recent increased investment in the Canadian market.

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Servers

HP announces second generation of hyperconverged StoreVirtual appliances

August 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP announces second generation of hyperconverged StoreVirtual appliances
The new CS 250 is a much-enhanced followup to the appliance HP first announced in December at HP Discover, and which came to market earlier this year.

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Hardware

Savage IO relaunches with new converged hardware storage solution

July 28, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Savage IO relaunches with new converged hardware storage solution
The company’s new SavageStor architecture features 12 SAS lanes with 25 GB/s throughput, part of a design intended to completely remove bottlenecks inside the server and address needs of customers who require high performance and throughput.

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Distribution

SimpliVity to boost Canadian business with new Cisco-related distribution deal

July 22, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on SimpliVity to boost Canadian business with new Cisco-related distribution deal
SimpliVity is about to announce a new distribution deal which will strengthen its developing Canadian business, and make their joint solution with Cisco available as a single SKU.

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Cloud

New Arcserve Cloud caps frenetic year since company’s independence from CA

July 14, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Arcserve Cloud caps frenetic year since company’s independence from CA
The cloud itself comes from a partner, which does have a Canadian data centre capacity. It is first available as an integration with Arcserve’s UDP appliance and is likely to have special appeal to MSPs, including those not presently offering managed services.

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VMware Canada country manager Sean Forkan
Cloud

NetBackup 7.7 highlights broad refresh of Veritas portfolio

July 9, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetBackup 7.7 highlights broad refresh of Veritas portfolio
New products include Veritas Information Map, which is built on the company’s new Information Fabric, and Veritas Resiliency Platform, an IT service continuity solution. Veritas InfoScale is an enhancement and rebranding of the old Symantec Storage Foundations.

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Big Data

Canada needs to move beyond traditional IT: Dell

July 6, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canada needs to move beyond traditional IT: Dell
Canadian organizations are not as far along the transition to the new IT as some in other countries, so Dell’s global strategy of forming deep ISV alliances to create Dell Blueprints to help customers make that transition seems particularly relevant here.

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Cloud

Toronto’s Breqwatr taking appliance to simplify private cloud deployments through the channel

July 2, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Toronto’s Breqwatr taking appliance to simplify private cloud deployments through the channel
The Toronto startup is going to market through the channel out of the gate, and unusually for a startup, has been picked up by a major distributor. Arrow is handling their North American distribution.

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