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Veeam advances strategic vision from availability to hyperavailability at VeeamON

May 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam advances strategic vision from availability to hyperavailability at VeeamON
The main Veeam announcement at this year’s VeeamON event is advancing their core branding, to keep up with customer expectations by providing fully automated data management as part of an availability strategy.

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INFINIDAT comes to first VeeamON with new solution set and new Veeam integration

May 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on INFINIDAT comes to first VeeamON with new solution set and new Veeam integration
INFINIDAT and Veeam come originally from different segments of the market, but have partnered around an enterprise play, and INFINIDAT is looking to enlist some of Veeam’s top solution providers to increase their own ranks of ‘go-to’ partners.

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Asigra adds cybersecurity protection to 14th generation of their backup platform

May 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra adds cybersecurity protection to 14th generation of their backup platform
The Asigra Cloud Backup Evolved platform targets ransomware Attack Loops, which corrupt backup data in order to prevent successful restores and force organizations to pay ransoms. It also adds a new management interface, GDPR compliance certification, and container support.

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Veritas looking to expand partner business with Nutanix

May 14, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas looking to expand partner business with Nutanix
Veritas wants their mutual partners with Nutanix to ramp up their joint business, including Nutanix’s cloud offerings, and they are considering making channel program changes as one way to accomplish this.

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Nutanix-focused HYCU extends total backup coverage message with added non-Nutanix support

May 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix-focused HYCU extends total backup coverage message with added non-Nutanix support
HYCU strengthens its case to be perceived as a one-stop shop for data protection within Nutanix environments, by adding an integration with VMware VADP that enhances HYCU’s protection of VMware data in those environments.

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Cohesity adds CloudSpin capability for faster test/dev in the cloud

April 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity adds CloudSpin capability for faster test/dev in the cloud
CloudSpin will be integrated as a free component within the Cohesity platform when it becomes available in 90-120 days.

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Kaseya upgrades their Office 365 Backup capability with Spanning partnership

April 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaseya upgrades their Office 365 Backup capability with Spanning partnership
The new offering is much stronger than what Kaseya had before for Office 365 Backup, and is something that Kaseya partners should be able to sell to their own customers at a good margin,

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Rubrik introduces complementary Polaris SaaS platform that creates unified system of record

April 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik introduces complementary Polaris SaaS platform that creates unified system of record
Rubrik Polaris is a separate SaaS platform that provides a new turnkey offering that partners can offer to their existing install base, and which should itself generate new sales of entire Rubrik systems among compliance-minded customers.

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Pivot3 announces cloud version of their HCI offering for the AWS Cloud

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 announces cloud version of their HCI offering for the AWS Cloud
The features of the next-gen Pivot3 Acuity platform introduced last year are being migrated to the cloud, beginning with using its dynamic provisioning capability for backup and disaster recovery.

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Strong SMB momentum makes Cohesity first winner of SHI’s Emerging Partner of the Year award

March 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Strong SMB momentum makes Cohesity first winner of SHI’s Emerging Partner of the Year award
Cohesity also met another key criteria for the award, that a vendor provide clear and consistent support to the channel.