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HP Enterprise unveils brand, four-point plan

June 2, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

At the last HP Discover before the HP/HPE split, Meg Whitman presents Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s logo, brand, and target markets.

Paragon Software unveils simpler unified host-based backup pricing model

April 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Paragon’s market is the sub-100 user market, and they believe this new model is priced and simplified to become disruptive in this space.

Veeam to continue driving alliances, channel recruitment

April 16, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

In addition to putting more investment into their alliances strategy and their channel, Veeam is encouraging traditional partners to take advantage of the Veeam Availability Suite’s new cloud capabilities.

Acronis rolls out backup service for VARs with no MSP practice

April 7, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The Acronis Backup Service complements last year’s Acronis Backup as a Service. While the latter is aimed at core cloud partners – service providers and MSPs – this new one is targeted at traditional software resellers, and lets them dip their toe in the cloud by having Acronis do most of the work.

Rubrik looks to redefine backup with converged scale-out platform with Apple-like experience

March 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Rubrik sees itself as a threat to every backup vendor, with an offering that will focus on the mid-market at first, and will be sold 100 per cent through the channel.

Intronis slashes image-based recovery times with Winter 2015 release

March 6, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The improved functionality will help Intronis partners have discussions with customers about providing higher-value recovery strategies rather than simply selling storage.

Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13

February 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The long-time cloud backup solution’s new features include Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service enablement, open infrastructure support for FreeBSD on ZFS and CentOS, and integration with Linear Tape File System for archiving.

Arcserve’s first appliance to hit the street by end of February

February 3, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

These models are aimed at the SMB and lower mid-market spaces, but more will be following which will take on the higher midmarket where the Symantec-Veritas NetBackup 5000 plays.