Data Recovery

Cloud

Commvault announces upgrades to Commvault Data Platform

October 14, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commvault announces upgrades to Commvault Data Platform
Improvements to user interfaces in a cloud world, better automation and orchestration to deal with Big Data, increased openness and new software-defined data services highlight what Commvault is calling a very significant series of announcements.

Channel Programs

Unitrends revamps partner program on unique engagement philosophy

February 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Unitrends revamps partner program on unique engagement philosophy
Unitrends is implementing a program based on five stars, with partners earning credit for ranking based on sales, marketing, customer satisfaction, training and social media achievements, in a system that can let smaller partners and even influencers rise in the program.

Channel Programs

Unitrends looks to recruit smaller VARs with move to 100 per cent channel model

June 19, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Unitrends looks to recruit smaller VARs with move to 100 per cent channel model
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.

Distribution

Arcserve signs exclusive North American agreement with Ingram Micro

April 2, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve signs exclusive North American agreement with Ingram Micro
Arcserve believes consolidating with a single broadliner will strengthen their market presence as they continue to bring a range of new offerings to market.

Storage

Arcserve’s first appliance to hit the street by end of February

February 3, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve’s first appliance to hit the street by end of February
These models are aimed at the SMB and lower mid-market spaces, but more will be following which will take on the higher midmarket where the Symantec-Veritas NetBackup 5000 plays.

Hardware

Arcserve announces first appliance offering

November 4, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Arcserve announces first appliance offering
The CA spinoff, which is now free to focus on its SMB and midmarket-focused product line, is also announcing a free edition of its software, and an update of its Unified Data Protection (UDP) which adds some new features.

Cloud

Nutanix adds hybrid cloud, high performance appliance

August 19, 2014 Mark Cox 1
Nutanix believes the ability to offer public cloud capacity, together with a more powerful appliance, will make them the go-to vendor for any enterprise converged infrastructure project.

Eran Farajun, executive vice president, Asigra
Big Data

Asigra Introduces Recovery-Centric Backup Pricing

July 12, 2013 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Asigra Introduces Recovery-Centric Backup Pricing
With data volume continuing to skyrocket, a flat cost for both data backup and recovery is becoming unsustainable, cloud backup vendor Asigra says.

Marlene Mullowney, account executive at Datto Canada
Featured Post

Solution provider brings Datto managed backup to Canada

March 1, 2012 Robert Dutt 1
Modest Mycyk has gone from a major Canadian partner to building the company’s presence in this country

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Storage

Data recovery business full steam ahead

August 23, 2011 Chris Talbot 1
With all the stress vendors have placed on backup solutions, whether it’s tape, disc or the latest cloud solutions, there might be a perception that the data recovery business is shrinking, but that’s not the