containers

Cloud

Dell EMC channel needs to pay more attention to PKS: Chad Sakac

August 8, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC channel needs to pay more attention to PKS: Chad Sakac
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.

Cloud

Google commits to hybrid cloud vision with ‘truly revolutionary’ Cloud Services Platform

July 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Google commits to hybrid cloud vision with ‘truly revolutionary’ Cloud Services Platform
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.

Storage

Addition of InfoSight predictive analytics to HPE 3PAR highlights new 3PAR enhancements

July 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Addition of InfoSight predictive analytics to HPE 3PAR highlights new 3PAR enhancements
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.

Big Data

MapR announces platform breakthroughs to deliver paradigm shift in automated analytics time-to-value

June 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on MapR announces platform breakthroughs to deliver paradigm shift in automated analytics time-to-value
MapR says these changes will let customers fundamentally reshape their use of analytics, which will also open up new opportunities for their channel partners.

Artificial Intelligence

Riverbed delivers enhanced scalability, integrated licensing with new SteelCentral release

June 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed delivers enhanced scalability, integrated licensing with new SteelCentral release
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.

Storage

Hitachi Vantara announces new VSP storage systems plus analytics and software updates

May 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara announces new VSP storage systems plus analytics and software updates
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.

Cloud

Announcement of McAfee CASB Connect Program highlights cloudy RSA for McAfee

April 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Announcement of McAfee CASB Connect Program highlights cloudy RSA for McAfee
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.

Channel Programs

Bare metal container platform provider Diamanti launches first channel program

April 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Bare metal container platform provider Diamanti launches first channel program
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.

Networking

AppOrbit announces four major upgrades in Version 2.0 of integrated application platform

April 2, 2018 Mark Cox 1
The new AppOrbit capabilities include AppSwitch, which facilitates virtualized networking very close to the application and is fully programmable.

Managed Services

MSPs will be able to add more services with new DH2i cross-platform capability in 17.5 software release

March 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on MSPs will be able to add more services with new DH2i cross-platform capability in 17.5 software release
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.