HPE also announces a replacement for its mid-range 3PAR 8450 all-flash array, a Nimble secondary flash array and both new and enhanced storage software.
Storage
MSA refresh, Nimble availability highlight HPE storage portfolio update
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Backup
Australia’s BackupAssist formally launches in North American market
by Mark Cox •
BackupAssist has timed a new channel initiative in North America with Version 10 of its software, which adds several enterprise grade features to its SMB-focused solution.
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Cloud, Virtualization
Continuous Data Protection among highlights of new Veeam Availability Suite
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At VeeamON, Veeam announced several significant new innovations in their flagship product, which will be released later this year.
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Backup, Cloud, Storage
Rubrik extends its data management platform natively into the cloud
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Rubrik previously had the ability to archive in the cloud, but now has extended their cloud capability to allow their software to run natively on the major public cloud providers.
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Cloud, Distribution
Westcon-Comstor becomes first AWS Value Added Distributor in Canada
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Westcon-Comstor will leverage its BlueSky cloud and service management platform and its previous experience as an AWS Value Added Distributor in Asia Pacific to help its resellers build strong practices around AWS.
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Servers, Storage
ARM hyper-converged vendor KALEAO enlists Vancouver’s Tuangru as key channel partner
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KALEAO, which first brought product to market last October, provides an update of both its overall and channel strategies, and where Tuangru fits in.
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Big Data, Cloud, Software
Salesforce kicks off the Year of Einstein
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Salesforce highlighted that Einstein, featured at last fall’s Dreamforce, is part of the new spring release, and is in the hands of customers. They also announced a new partnership with IBM that unites IBM’s Watson with Einstein.
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Cloud, Managed Services, Security
eSentire integrates cloud sources into its Managed Detection and Response service
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The addition of cloud visibility into the Managed Detection and Response service responds to the user vulnerability to issues like phishing and data exfiltration, and presents a strong new opportunity for partners.
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Cloud, Internet of Things, Solution Provider News
Vancouver systems integrator TriNimbus sees massive potential in new AWS announcements
by Mark Cox •
TriNimbus, AWS’ only Premier partner in Canada, highlighted several of the many AWS announcements at the AWS re:Invent show as being highly relevant to their customer base – as well as one that will have less direct short term relevance, but longer term will likely have massive significance.
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AWS launches Canadian region
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AWS formally announces that its Canadian region has now gone live, which the company confidently believes will significantly expand their business and the opportunities for Canadian partners.
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Cloud, Virtualization
Cloud VDI vendor Workspot to offer Desktop as a Service 2.0 on Azure
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Workspot, which has been challenging Citrix and VMware with its simple to deploy cloud VDI offering, is announcing a version tightly integrated with Azure that they expect will become the flagship product.
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Cloud
AWS loves itself some compute
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While AWS made many, many announcements at its re:Invent event, the reworking of its family of instances, and availability of several interesting use case capabilities are likely to turn heads.
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Cloud, Security
Palo Alto Networks extends AWS relationship to enhance firewall scalability
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Palo Alto Networks sees its adaption to the new age of cloud security as fundamental, and has been doing what it can to keep its channel partners moving in tandem on this objective.
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Storage
Cohesity unveils new product for hyper-converged backup to AWS and Azure
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Cohesity, which aims to consolidate all forms of secondary storage on a single platform, builds on cloud archiving and tiering in their spring release with a platform with full cloud capability.
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Channel Programs, Mobility
Parallels beefs up RAS with changes to partner program and new software version
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Parallels makes major changes to the partner program they inherited when they bought 2X and its Remote Application Server solution last year.
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Data Centre, Storage
NetApp learns from past integration failures to leverage SolidFire
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Twelve years ago, NetApp acquired scale-out NAS startup Spinnaker, and began a long and horrific series of integration problems. This year, they acquired SolidFire’s scale-out technology, and took steps to learn from the lessons of the past.
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Scality adds Microsoft Active Directory and AWS IAM support in S3 API commitment
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Version 6.0 of Scality’s RING software significantly enhances their commitment to the AWS S3 protocol, which the company says will significantly expand their business with their vendor and reseller partners.
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Cloud, Managed Services, Storage
Asigra expands partner opportunities with free AWS Snapshot Management tool
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Asigra looks to fill a void in the marketplace by providing its MSPs with a tool for snapshot management in AWS, which will assist partners with workload migrations to AWS and provide a service for which they can charge.
