Tag Archive for Appliances

Veritas brings new predictive analytics to appliances

Veritas Predictive Insights will be a core, free feature of their appliances, beginning initially with NetBackup Appliances and extending to Access and Flex appliances next year.

Dell Technologies VxRail HCI appliances receive SAP HANA certification for production environments

Certification on SAP HANA is exceedingly important for HCI vendors, because it validates that HCI will run in a demanding Tier One environment, and opens up a market where enormous pent-up demand exists, that has just been waiting for this validation.

Changes this year to Commvault product portfolio and channel model already showing strong results in Canada

Bassam Hemdan, Commvault’s Canadian county manager, discussed the recent changes to Commvault’s portfolio and policies and their impact in the Canadian market.

Commvault builds out appliance line with offerings for remote offices and higher end

In what CEO Bob Hammer calls the key to Commvault’s strategy, the company has expanded its appliance from the original model into a full family, with a smaller one node offering for remote offices below it in the market, and a much denser model for larger deployments.

Security, compliance and usability are enhancements in Pulse Connect Secure 9.0 release

Features likely to be of significant interest to the partner community include new Android on-demand capability, as well as deployment capability on AWS as well as Azure.

Veeam CEO says aggressive strategic partnering strategy central to recent – and future – growth

Veeam CEO Peter McKay credited Veeam’s expansion of their strategic relationships as critical to their success in 2017, and indicated they plan significant further expansion here going forward.

Dell EMC announces hyper-converged, hybrid cloud upgrades

In addition to upgrades to VxRail, VxRack SDDC, both their Enterprise and Native hybrid clouds, and new turnkey VMware Ready Systems for ‘do it yourself’ cloud deployments, Dell EMC also announced GA for XtemIO X2 and an upgrade of their Dell Data Protection Suite for Applications.

Dell EMC positions new VxRail appliances more towards the enterprise

While VxRail was originally aimed more at the mid-market, unexpected orders for large numbers of nodes from enterprise customers has led Dell EMC to add more enterprise features to the new 4.5 release of the appliances.

Ransomware detection highlights enhancements to Unitrends flagship backup solutions

Unitrends sees both the new anti-ransomware capability, and two enhancements which make Unitrends more attractive to enterprises, as important differentiators for partners.

LookingGlass brings multiple technologies into new ScoutShield Threat Intelligence Gateway

ScoutShield uses technology from LookingGlass’s 2015 acquisitions of CloudShield and Cyveillance to create a Threat Intelligence Gateway that integrates with the LookingGlass ScoutVison threat intelligence platform.

Dell collaborates with Citrix on new XenDesktop VXRail solution

The offering with Citrix provides the same capabilities of the latest version of a VMRail VMware solution announced at last year’s Dell EMC World, and gives Dell partners an offering for their Citrix focused customers.

Qumulo unveils new Qumulo Core 2.0 software, new hybrid storage appliances

Channel-focused scale-out NAS provider Qumulo, which integrates real-time data analytics directly into storage, expands its hardware appliance line and announces a partnership with Western Digital for its HGST 10TB Hard Drives for its appliances.

Atlantis unveils two node hyperconverged appliance for ROBO market

Atlantis also announced a new relationship with Dell, the only major OEM for whom its software was not customized when the first Atlantis hyperconverged products were announced last year.

Bot-buster Distil Networks launches first channel program to build loyal partner network

Distil is looking to supplement its direct sales with a significant partner presence, offering an enterprise grade proactive solution, which is very specific and complements other security solutions, and now a partner program to offer support.

Seagate looks to new enterprise partners as eVault brand departs in enterprise push

The scalability of the old eVault solutions has been massively increased up to 400 per cent, so Seagate is rebranding them with the Seagate name and looking to extend them into the enterprise data centre market, as well as the ROBO space where they play today.

Unitrends looks to recruit smaller VARs with move to 100 per cent channel model

Unitrends only added a channel component to their business in 2013, and now are dispensing with direct entirely to give partners the confidence their vendor won’t poach deals from them, which will in turn encourage them to invest more in Unitrends.

Dell expands Dell XC Series Nutanix offerings

Scheduled to roll out in Q3, the updates to the portfolio address specific use cases. They are: support for KVM, including Nutanix’s new KVM-based hypervisor; a storage-heavy Lite-Compute node; a new appliance that provides Nvidia GPU support; and a short-depth, 1U form factor appliance.