With less than a month to go before the split is finalized, HP and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise announce last details of their soon-to-be-separate partner programs.
Channel Programs
HP puts final touches on post-split partner programs
by Robert Dutt •
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Managed Services, Storage
Barracuda to buy Intronis to broaden reach in MSP market
by Mark Cox •
Details of the integration, such as whether Intronis will be an independent subsidiary, have not been finalized, but Barracuda says they are committed to have a dedicated MSP business, with Intronis at the core of that.
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Marketing, Storage
Intronis boosts marketing assistance to partners with MSP Marketing Booster Pack
by Mark Cox •
The new resource is a key step on the road to an Intronis sales and marketing certification program scheduled to be available in Q4.
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Data Centre, Distribution, Storage, Virtualization
Avnet adds Veeam Software to North American line card
by Mark Cox •
Expanding their EMEA relationship to the U.S. and Canada gives Avnet partners here access to a backup solution well suited for the converged infrastructure space, which complements Avnet’s emphasis in this area.
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Cloud, Storage
CloudBerry Backup extends support to Mac OS and Linux
by Mark Cox •
CloudBerry, which works mainly through MSPs and backs customers up to their choice of public cloud, will initially only have Mac and Linux backup for Amazon S3, but that will be expanded in later releases.
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Cloud, Managed Services, Storage
New Arcserve Cloud caps frenetic year since company’s independence from CA
by Mark Cox •
The cloud itself comes from a partner, which does have a Canadian data centre capacity. It is first available as an integration with Arcserve’s UDP appliance and is likely to have special appeal to MSPs, including those not presently offering managed services.
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Managed Services, Storage
Acronis unveils their next-gen data protection platform
by Mark Cox •
Acronis beefs up their data protection platform by enhancing its disaster recovery capability and file sync and share capabilities.
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Hardware, Small Business, Storage
Paragon Software reworks tech license tool as multi-purpose utility for end users
by Mark Cox •
The new IT Essentials Toolkit, which handles virtualization, disk management and system optimization for servers and workstations, is a product many Paragon partners use themselves, but now it is also packaged in a SKU they can sell to their own customers.
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Channel Programs, Storage
Unitrends looks to recruit smaller VARs with move to 100 per cent channel model
by Mark Cox •
Unitrends only added a channel component to their business in 2013, and now are dispensing with direct entirely to give partners the confidence their vendor won’t poach deals from them, which will in turn encourage them to invest more in Unitrends.
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Cloud, Marketing, Storage
Asigra building brand, partner opportunities, with aggressive marketing campaign
by Mark Cox •
Asigra has a different set of marketing concerns than a decade ago, when customers didn’t know their name at all, but they are continuing to ramp up their efforts.
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Solution Provider News, Storage
Toronto’s Storage Guardian’s new data centre protects data, business operations
by Mark Cox •
Toronto solution provider Storage Guardian has opened a new data centre, which also contains space and facilities to provide temporary office space to customers whose offices are closed by a disaster.
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Cloud, Storage
Asigra lays out strategy for prosperity in potentially tough cloud backup world
by Mark Cox •
At its partner event, Asigra discussed its continuing strategy for keeping itself and its partners competitive in a world of sinking backup margins, including new ways to cut partners’ hardware costs and create new revenue opportunities for them.
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Cloud, Storage
New Asigra appliance to hedge against coming flat zero backup prices
by Mark Cox •
In a grim future of zero backup pricing, Asigra’s CEO told partners their future profitability – and survival – depends on their ability to build trust with the customer, and on their ability to sell additional services around it. An archiving capability, centred on Asigra’s new appliance, is a key part of this.
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Cloud, Storage
Cloud enhancements highlight five new Datto product enhancements
by Mark Cox •
These include a ‘born in the cloud’ router, a sync and share partnership with ownCloud, a new Backupify for Office 365 solution, a new Linux agent and an enhanced partner portal.
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Cloud, Storage
Veeam to add cloud-based VM replication to Veeam Availability Suite v9
by Mark Cox •
The new functionality will also let service providers provide their customers with cloud-based disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) through the new Veeam Cloud Connect Replication for Service Providers offering.
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Cloud, Data Centre
HP Enterprise unveils brand, four-point plan
by Robert Dutt •
At the last HP Discover before the HP/HPE split, Meg Whitman presents Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s logo, brand, and target markets.
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Small Business, Storage
Paragon Software unveils simpler unified host-based backup pricing model
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Cloud, Storage, Virtualization
Veeam to continue driving alliances, channel recruitment
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Cloud, Storage
Acronis rolls out backup service for VARs with no MSP practice
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Storage
Rubrik looks to redefine backup with converged scale-out platform with Apple-like experience
by Mark Cox •
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.
