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Commvault successfully completes reorientation of go-to-market resources towards channel

October 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault successfully completes reorientation of go-to-market resources towards channel
Scott Strubel, Commvault’s vice president of worldwide channels discusses the impact of the recent changes to Commvault’s channel operations, and what still remains to be done.

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Commvault builds out appliance line with offerings for remote offices and higher end

October 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault builds out appliance line with offerings for remote offices and higher end
In what CEO Bob Hammer calls the key to Commvault’s strategy, the company has expanded its appliance from the original model into a full family, with a smaller one node offering for remote offices below it in the market, and a much denser model for larger deployments.

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Commvault takes first step to self-driving backup with Commvault Command Center

October 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault takes first step to self-driving backup with Commvault Command Center
Commvault’s senior executives kicked off their opening keynote at Commvault GO on Wednesday, and while they introduced several new solutions, the highlight was their new Command Center interface.

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Zerto sets the table for next year’s Zerto 7 convergence with Zerto 6.5 release

October 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zerto sets the table for next year’s Zerto 7 convergence with Zerto 6.5 release
Zerto 6.5 has new feature enhancements, which will be of particular interest to Cloud Service Providers, but the most significant news here is more likely the continued moves towards their upcoming version, which they see as a massively disruptive offering.

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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.