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Commvault continues deepening strategic alliances with extension of HPE relationship to StoreOnce

October 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault continues deepening strategic alliances with extension of HPE relationship to StoreOnce
Commvault is making several extremely significant strategic partnership announcements at their GO event. The one with HPE extends an existing relationship, so in terms of new business, may not be as significant in terms of new revenues, but it is still important as clear statement of their go-to-market strategy.

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Veritas partners with Pure Storage on joint solution around Pure’s data hub architecture

October 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas partners with Pure Storage on joint solution around Pure’s data hub architecture
The joint solution is targeted at larger customers, and will initially go to market through a select number of the two companies’ joint channel partners, before having its availability broadened out subsequently.

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Arcserve unveils integrated cloud-native solution set with Business Continuity Cloud

October 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve unveils integrated cloud-native solution set with Business Continuity Cloud
Arcserve combines four of its solutions into a single cloud offering that on-prem customers cam still use, but will also give them hybrid and full cloud options.

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Cohesity adds service provider component to expanded partner program with significantly more resources

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity adds service provider component to expanded partner program with significantly more resources
Cohesity has doubled the amount of dollars allocated to their partner program, with new perks like rebates for sales to very large customers and formalized and expanded MDF. They have also established a model for service providers within the program, which provides mechanisms like consumption-based pricing suited to this business model.

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Cohesity announces new Microsoft integrations at Ignite event

September 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity announces new Microsoft integrations at Ignite event
Cohesity says a new integration with Office 365 Exchange Online, support for the new Azure Data Box, and new failover and failback capabilities for Azure DR should make it easier to sell joint Azure-Cohesity solutions, which have shown strong recent momentum.

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Imanis Data adds more machine learning functionality to Hadoop and NOSQL-focused Data Management Platform

September 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Imanis Data adds more machine learning functionality to Hadoop and NOSQL-focused Data Management Platform
Key enhancements include a new RPO-driven backup capability and the first automated Any-Point-In-Time Recovery capability for NoSQL databases.

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Veeam, Cisco expand relationship around Cisco HyperFlex to secondary side

August 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam, Cisco expand relationship around Cisco HyperFlex to secondary side
Cisco and Veeam partnered around HyperFlex over a year ago around a direct snapshot integration for HyperFlex primary storage. Now they are extending that partnership with a new integration on the secondary side that leverages enhancements made in HyperFlex 3.0.

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Cohesity introduces Helios SaaS-based orchestration and management solution

August 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity introduces Helios SaaS-based orchestration and management solution
Helios is the first SaaS-based application on top of the Cohesity platform, something that was always part of the company’s vision, and which provides new data and app orchestration and management capabilities.

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Arcserve stresses higher margins, stronger partner engagement in new channel program

August 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve stresses higher margins, stronger partner engagement in new channel program
Recruitment of new MSP partners, in a business where the cloud is constantly increasing in importance, is a top priority for Arcserve.

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Datrium unveils SaaS-based CloudShift orchestration service that complements core Datrium DVX HCI backup and DR platform

August 14, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datrium unveils SaaS-based CloudShift orchestration service that complements core Datrium DVX HCI backup and DR platform
The new Datrium CloudShift offering provides a more focused and reliable alternative than VMware SRM for deployments using Datrium’s stack.