Chad Dunn, who runs HCI product management at Dell EMC, thinks the stars are aligned for hyperconverged to continue its breakneck growth rates this year
Data Centre, Servers, Storage
Why hyperconverged won’t slow down in 2019: Dell EMC
by Mark Cox •
Tag Archive for containers
Security
vArmour to hire Canadian-based resource as part of major sales and marketing expansion from new funding round
by Mark Cox •
vArmour raises another $44 million in a Series E funding round to address what they see as a massive opportunity, and are investing most of it in sales and marketing resources as a result, including hiring a resident person in Canada for the first time.
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Cloud, Managed Services
LogicMonitor introduces two new services, including Kubernetes monitoring
by Mark Cox •
As Logic Monitor gears up to launch a channel program and a partner portal, it unveils a new Kubernetes service, and another with a services-based focus that monitors resources together in logical groups.
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Networking, Security
DH2i looks to disrupt cloud VPN market with new DxOdyssey software-defined perimeter software
by Mark Cox •
DH2i has adapted the technology from their core Smart Availabiilty offering for container management to solving a problem experienced by their customers. They are demonstrating it this week at the PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle.
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Storage
NetApp extends data fabric with DevOps announcements
by Mark Cox •
NetApp made a flurry of announcements on Wednesday at Insight extending their data fabric, with special relevance to developers and architects, emphasizing their cloud-first focus, and articulating their hybrid and multi-cloud proposition.
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Cloud, Storage
NetApp CEO Kurian lays out four principles for leading in a data-driven world
by Mark Cox •
While digital transformation has become a motherhood term in the tech industry, NetApp CEO George Kurian kicked off the opening keynote at NetApp Insight by saying NetApp is now emphasizing that successful digital transformation requires adherence to four core principles.
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Cloud
Hitachi Vantara enhances Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Container Platform with one-click Kubernetes capabilities
by Mark Cox •
Hitachi Vantara announces enhancements to their cloud vision, with new capabilities around Kubernetes in a multi-cloud environment through their HEC Container Platform.
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Backup, Cloud, Data Centre
Rubrik Datos IO adds new Docker functionality, Azure support in major 3.0 release
by Mark Cox •
The first release since Rubrik acquired Datos IO earlier his year also makes major enhancements to the platform’s scale-out architecture and performance.
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Internet of Things
Dell IoT Solution for Surveillance, IoT channel bundles announced at VMworld
by Mark Cox •
The IoT bundles are designed to give resellers an easy turnkey option, and encourage more of them to get into IoT. Nine bundles, each focused on a specific vendor, are scheduled for launch, with more coming down the road.
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Cloud, Mobility, Security, Virtualization
Pulse Secure looks to channel to lead creative disruption in growth of Virtual ADC business
by Mark Cox •
Pulse Secure is seeing strong momentum in its virtual ADC business this year, with the growth of cloud applications, and is looking to both cloud-focused partners and their traditional partners broadening out their business to continue the trend.
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Cloud, Data Centre
Dell EMC channel needs to pay more attention to PKS: Chad Sakac
by Mark Cox •
Chad Sakac, Pivotal’s SVP Strategic Alliances, talks with ChannelBuzz about his new role, sorts out the Dell Technologies and Pivotal strategy around PKS, and explains why more of the channel needs to give PKS more attention.
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Cloud, Data Centre
Google commits to hybrid cloud vision with ‘truly revolutionary’ Cloud Services Platform
by Mark Cox •
At their Google Cloud Next 2018 event, in addition to their new platform, Google announced GKE On-Prem, a version of Google’s Google Kubernetes Engine for container management. They also announced Istio 1.0 is now available for production deployments, and the first service for it.
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Storage
Addition of InfoSight predictive analytics to HPE 3PAR highlights new 3PAR enhancements
by Mark Cox •
In addition to completing the full integration of the analytics capabilities HPE acquired last year with Nimble, HPE also expanded their tools and integrations to automate 3PAR in the cloud, DevOps, virtualization and container environments.
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Big Data
MapR announces platform breakthroughs to deliver paradigm shift in automated analytics time-to-value
by Mark Cox •
MapR says these changes will let customers fundamentally reshape their use of analytics, which will also open up new opportunities for their channel partners.
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Artificial Intelligence, Networking
Riverbed delivers enhanced scalability, integrated licensing with new SteelCentral release
by Mark Cox •
The enhanced SteelCentral also adds Prism, which uses AI to visualize the conversion funnel and spot issues, and full integration with Riverbed Xirrus WI-Fi.
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Storage
Hitachi Vantara announces new VSP storage systems plus analytics and software updates
by Mark Cox •
Hitachi Vantara expands their midrange offerings for both all-flash and hybrid platforms and extends their flat service model from the all-flash series to their hybrid series as well.
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Cloud, Security
Announcement of McAfee CASB Connect Program highlights cloudy RSA for McAfee
by Mark Cox •
Building on their cloud momentum after the integration of Skyhigh and their Security Cloud, McAfee also announced container support for their cloud workload security offering, and released a survey tracking trends in cloud usage.
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Channel Programs, Storage
Bare metal container platform provider Diamanti launches first channel program
by Mark Cox •
Diamanti quickly adopted an all-channel go-to-market in the face of resellers looking for a turnkey enterprise container management solution, and now has introduced a program to support what will start off as a select value channel.
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Networking, Virtualization
AppOrbit announces four major upgrades in Version 2.0 of integrated application platform
by Mark Cox •
The new AppOrbit capabilities include AppSwitch, which facilitates virtualized networking very close to the application and is fully programmable.
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Managed Services, Storage
MSPs will be able to add more services with new DH2i cross-platform capability in 17.5 software release
by Mark Cox •
The new release of the DH2i DxE software also provides automatic Windows/Linux failover for SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups, automatic Windows/Linux failover cluster on AWS and Azure, and management and orchestration of generic Linux services, including native open source databases, with automatic failover.
