Tag Archive for Azure

Rubrik Datos IO adds new Docker functionality, Azure support in major 3.0 release

The first release since Rubrik acquired Datos IO earlier his year also makes major enhancements to the platform’s scale-out architecture and performance.

Dell IoT Solution for Surveillance, IoT channel bundles announced at VMworld

The IoT bundles are designed to give resellers an easy turnkey option, and encourage more of them to get into IoT. Nine bundles, each focused on a specific vendor, are scheduled for launch, with more coming down the road.

Dell EMC tinkers with cloud-enabled infrastructure solutions portfolio

There were few – actually no – major Dell EMC new product announcements made around their cloud infrastructure portfolio at VMworld. There were a lot of little ones, however, as well as some overarching messaging about focus and strategy.

Acronis extends Microsoft partnership around Azure to give customers and partners more choices

The deeper integration with the Azure cloud will let MSPs leverage Acronis for the Azure environment, instead of having to manage it themselves.

Google commits to hybrid cloud vision with ‘truly revolutionary’ Cloud Services Platform

At their Google Cloud Next 2018 event, in addition to their new platform, Google announced GKE On-Prem, a version of Google’s Google Kubernetes Engine for container management. They also announced Istio 1.0 is now available for production deployments, and the first service for it.

CloudJumper adds smooth ability to manage RDmi workloads with Cloud Workspace for Azure

CloudJumper has had partners ask for this to reduce the complexity of working with Azure, and large integrators who had not worked with the company before see this as a way to make large Azure deployments more cost-effective.

Pax8 announces Professional Services Program to help MSPs fulfill and develop services capability

Pax8 has introduced new Professional Services at partner request, both to perform services for MSPs who lack the necessary skills at a relatively low cost, and also to teach the MSPs how to repeat the service without assistance later.

Microsoft lays out FY19 vision, strategy and plans for execution at Inspire kickoff

Consistency is the big strategic theme this year, following a massive restructuring a year ago, but Microsoft still had a to-do list for partners for the year ahead.

German software-defined archiving company iTernity sees strong expansion potential in strategic HPE alliance

ITernity has many ISV integrations, and a 100 per cent channel strategy, but its participation in the HPE Complete program to drive business through HPE and their channel is critical to their strategy.

‘Lead With the Cloud’ seminal message to NetApp partners going forward

NetApp’s cloud business is still fairly small, but their offerings will roll out in force this year, and NetApp wants customers to lead with them – a strategic decision that would have seemed bizarre not long ago, but is now central to the new NetApp.

HPE to start out new GreenLake Hybrid Cloud on direct model

HPE has announced an exciting extension of their Pointnext Services with HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud. Channel partners will have to wait a while to get their hands on the new offering however, since HPE wants to establish a smooth motion for the service itself before opening it up to the channel.

Archive360 reorganizes solution offerings around more flexible modular structure

The Archive360 Archive2Azure platform now has eight modules, which are purchased separately, allowing customers to tailor their solution to their organization’s specific needs.

AtScale brings their Data Lake middleware to Amazon, Microsoft and Google cloud marketplaces

AtScale allows organizations to use their familiar BI tools like Tableau and Excel to process Big Data at extreme speeds. The new cloud marketplace initiative is aimed mainly at departments of enterprises.

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.

Pivot3 fills out HCI cloud strategy for partners by adding new capabilities, plus Azure and Google support

Pivot3 is stressing that while other HCI vendors have intelligent hybrid cloud strategies, they have one that is in production today.