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New Arcserve North America SVP of Sales Stephen Thomas looks to enhance partner engagement

February 27, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Arcserve North America SVP of Sales Stephen Thomas looks to enhance partner engagement
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

February 19, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage fleshes out hybrid cloud strategy with NVMe-oF support and ObjectEngine launch
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

February 5, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve steps up disaster recovery capabilities in third generation of appliance series
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

January 30, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaseya adds Xtra component to Unitrends channel program to link Unitrends and Kaseya IT Complete sales
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

January 23, 2019 Mark Cox 1
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

January 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on SwiftStack sees big pluses in partnering with Veeam around new Veeam Cloud Tier
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

January 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam adds new Cloud Tier, enhances Cloud Mobility and DataLabs in new Availability Suite release
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

January 16, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault, Cisco extend partnership with integration around Cisco HyperFlex HCI systems
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

December 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Arcserve North American Channel Director Sue Fossnes looks to further ramp up support for MSPs
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

December 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix-focused backup vendor HYCU to be resold by Lenovo
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.