Datrium moves from their original licensing model to a new framework designed to provide customers with maximum portability and flexibility.
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Datrium shifts licensing default to software model with Datrium Forward
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New Arcserve North America SVP of Sales Stephen Thomas looks to enhance partner engagement
by Mark Cox •
Thomas is stressing that Arcserve will remain consistent in its go-to-market and programmatic approach, both of which he sees as strengths in the market, although they will be implementing measures to energize their channel.
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Pure Storage fleshes out hybrid cloud strategy with NVMe-oF support and ObjectEngine launch
by Mark Cox •
Support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet is available now in Purity 5.2 software, while the ObjectEngine flash-to-flash-to-cloud data protection acquired from StorReduce will hit GA in the first half of the year.
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Arcserve steps up disaster recovery capabilities in third generation of appliance series
by Mark Cox •
The enhanced DR capabilities and a doubling of effective capacity will allow Arcserve to position the new appliances a little higher upmarket than before.
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Kaseya adds Xtra component to Unitrends channel program to link Unitrends and Kaseya IT Complete sales
by Mark Cox •
Unitrends now leverages the Kaseya IT Complete suite, and will pay both higher margins on the initial sale of a Unitrends solution, and a full recurring revenue share for any Kaseya IT Complete solution that customer buys, ever.
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Cohesity announces multi-stage anti-ransomware capability
by Mark Cox •
The anti-ransomware components, which are built into the core Cohesity backup platform and not a separate line item, gives their partners the ability to come to customers’ rescue and provide peace of mind against a well-publicized problem.
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SwiftStack sees big pluses in partnering with Veeam around new Veeam Cloud Tier
by Mark Cox •
The SwiftStack integration, their first ever with Veeam, lets local data on Veeam servers be automatically moved between performance and capacity tiers created in SwiftStack, defined by an organization’s management and retention policies.
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Veeam adds new Cloud Tier, enhances Cloud Mobility and DataLabs in new Availability Suite release
by Mark Cox •
In addition to the flood of news around Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4, Veeam also announced Veeam Availability for AWS, Veeam Availability Console V3, and a new licensing option with one license for any workload.
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Commvault, Cisco extend partnership with integration around Cisco HyperFlex HCI systems
by Mark Cox •
The new integration extends ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS to Cisco’s HyperFlex hyperconverged products, and validates Commvault’s IntelliSnap snapshot technology with them.
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New Arcserve North American Channel Director Sue Fossnes looks to further ramp up support for MSPs
by Mark Cox •
Increasing their MSP business is a major Arcserve priority, and the development of some kind of track for them within the company’s new channel program is one new enablement activity that is under active consideration.
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Nutanix-focused backup vendor HYCU to be resold by Lenovo
by Mark Cox •
HYCU extends the market reach for their backup solution designed specifically for Nutanix environments with this new reseller agreement, which will let Lenovo sell HYCU with their Nutanix solutions in a single sale.
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Cohesity announces additional AWS integrations around Snowball, DR and cloud backup
by Mark Cox •
At the AWS Re:Invent event, Cohesity is emphasizing the significance of the AWS partnership to the company’s growing cloud business, by formally announcing and emphasizing the significance of AWS-related enhancements that have become available.
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Pure Storage unveils first Cloud Data Services, which will run in AWS Cloud
by Mark Cox •
The new services are designed to have mission-critical capability, and to give Pure Storage a unified hybrid architecture capability that counters competitor cloud-centric strategies. While these are optimized for AWS, services for the Azure cloud are planned for the future.
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Veritas brings new predictive analytics to appliances
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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.
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StorageCraft sees complex ConnectWise relationship as critical to both MSP and overall strategy
by Mark Cox •
Unlike at the ConnectWise spring event, StorageCraft announced no new integrations at the fall event last week. The ConnectWise relationship remains critical to StorageCraft however, as they evolve their business models and practices to keep up with changes in the market.
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SherWeb relaunches their Office 365 offer, announces new UCaaS offering
by Mark Cox •
SherWeb’s first RMM integration, with ConnectWise, is scheduled to go live in Q1 of next year, a major step for the Cloud Services Provider, who previously had no direct integration with ConnectWise.
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Office 365 protection enhancements, new blockchain-based service highlight Acronis Data Cloud 7.8 update
by Mark Cox •
Acronis has also added improved their ransomware protection and added runbooks to their disaster recovery orchestration, democratizing the process so it can be done without professional services. Previously announced Azure and Google Cloud integrations are also part of this release.
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Druva expands AWS partnership with availability of Druva on AWS Snowball Edge
by Mark Cox •
A new collaboration between Druva and AWS combines data protection and cloud migration abilities in these devices, which back up and restore directly to them, and allow easy petabyte-scale workload transfer to the cloud.
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Commvault continues to build out strategic go-to-market relationships with major expansion of NetApp partnership
by Mark Cox •
Commvault’s head of Worldwide Partners and Market Development comments on the significance of the new NetApp relationship as part of Commvault’s broader strategy, and indicated customers and partners can look for more such relationships.
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Commvault launches ‘know your data’ solution with Commvault Activate
by Mark Cox •
Commvault has had their Activate solution for discovery of data available for a while, but is formally launching it now, as a core component of their simplified four product area portfolio, and says that it will be a strong product for channel partners.
