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Cloud

Strong channel opportunity in BlackBerry BRIDGE native integration of Microsoft apps within BlackBerry Dynamics

March 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Strong channel opportunity in BlackBerry BRIDGE native integration of Microsoft apps within BlackBerry Dynamics
BlackBerry BRIDGE integrates Microsoft Office 365 apps with BlackBerry Dynamics, bridging the two separate containers and encryption models, to provide enterprise security for Office 365.

Networking

Nutanix CEO says Netsil acquisition will enable hypervisor-independent networking stack

March 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix CEO says Netsil acquisition will enable hypervisor-independent networking stack
Nutanix makes its second acquisition in little over a week, and with Minjar and Netsil combined, Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey says that Nutanix can build a next-generation control plane, with seamless movement between cloud stacks.

Cloud

HyperGrid pivots to ‘software-defined cloud’ vision as they release new version of HyperCloud platform

February 22, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HyperGrid pivots to ‘software-defined cloud’ vision as they release new version of HyperCloud platform
HyperGrid’s new version of HyperCloud adds new capabilities and services around workload placement, improves multi-tenancy further, and now provides support for Kubernetes as well as Docker.

Cloud

New AWS services resonate with Canadian customers, channel partners

December 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New AWS services resonate with Canadian customers, channel partners
AWS made such a flurry of announcements at last week’s re:Invent event that it was sometimes difficult to keep track. Canadian partners and customers at the event did, however, have pretty clear ideas about what they liked.

Cloud

AWS looks to make developers as creative as musicians with new services

November 30, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on AWS looks to make developers as creative as musicians with new services
AWS CEO Andy Jassy used his keynote presentation at AWS re:Invent to announce a flood of new services intended to empower developers and make them more creative.

Networking

Improved integration of components highlights new Riverbed SteelCentral release

November 2, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Improved integration of components highlights new Riverbed SteelCentral release
The improvements strengthen SteelCentral’s digital experience management capabilities, improved its Dev/Ops performance management, and enhance network performance management in Big Data environments.

Cloud

Containerized app vendor Mesosphere extends strategic relationships with Dell EMC, Hitachi

September 25, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Containerized app vendor Mesosphere extends strategic relationships with Dell EMC, Hitachi
The reseller deal with Dell EMC, and OEM relationship around the Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Container program should significantly increase Mesosphere’s growing channel business.

Storage

New encryption, improved flash support highlight Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform 3.0

August 24, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on New encryption, improved flash support highlight Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform 3.0
The new Hedvig software also adds new plug-ins for Veritas and Red Hat, and enhances an existing one for VMware.

Storage

Coho Data converged solution with HPE and Arista publicly launches

June 7, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Coho Data converged solution with HPE and Arista publicly launches
Coho Data, which has recently reworked itself into a software-defined vendor, has just launched a converged turnkey solution through the HPE Complete program.

Storage

NetApp sees mainstream channel play in 10.4 release of StorageGRID Webscale object storage

May 8, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp sees mainstream channel play in 10.4 release of StorageGRID Webscale object storage
While the channel’s role in NetApp object storage has largely been limited to specific verticals, the company believes object storage’s market has finally grown to the point where broader market opportunities are a reality.