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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.

Cisco brings intent-based networking to third parties as DNA Center opens up

Sachin Gupta, senior vice president of product management for enterprise networking at Cisco

Cisco says it will open up its DNA Center to managing other vendors’ gear as it moves to make the intent-based networking hub an open platform for network innovation.

NetApp and Cisco roll out new first of new vertical solutions, plus Managed Private Cloud solution

The vertical solution is FlexPod Datacenter for Epic EHR, and the short-range strategy is to roll out additional solutions for the health care vertical – including additional ones for EHR – and then move to other verticals.

Pure Storage unveils AIRI Mini as ‘game changer’ to democratize AI in the enterprise

AIRI Mini is a joint engineering initiative between Pure and NVIDIA that provides an AI-focused solution with much less compute capability than AIRI, announced in March. It thus has a much lower entry point, and the companies think it will lead to strong interactions between infrastructure teams and data scientists.

Veeam CEO says aggressive strategic partnering strategy central to recent – and future – growth

Veeam CEO Peter McKay credited Veeam’s expansion of their strategic relationships as critical to their success in 2017, and indicated they plan significant further expansion here going forward.

StorMagic building out HCI enterprise edge strategy with expanding channel, strategic partnerships

StorMagic announced a new strategic relationship around Schneider Electric’s APC products this week, the latest step in a strategy of building out a 100 per cent channel model and strategic partnerships that the company thinks has it poised for even more explosive growth.

Commvault continues expanding existing alliances, joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise Complete

The expansion of Commvault go-to-market abilities with HPE comes on the heels of the expansion of theirInfinidat technology integration into a go-to-market relationship, and last year’s similar agreement with Cisco.

Dell EMC rethinks converged infrastructure with next-gen VxBlock System 1000

While in the old Dell EMC converged lineup, a System 1000 would have been a new high-end model, the new VXBlock completely restructures the approach, and integrates all storage types in one offering. It makes this a single-model family with additional flexibility, greater cost efficiencies and simplified lifecycle management.

Commvault channel changes signal doubling-down on commitment to partners

New global channel chief Owen Taraniuk pledges more global expansion, more expanded strategic partnerships like the one announced last year with Cisco, and changes that will make it easier for partners to become proficient with Commvault.

HP vet Ken Archer lays out vision and plans as new Nectar Chief Revenue Officer