Disaster Recovery

Cloud

New version of EMC Avamar Virtual Edition integrates with Azure

December 16, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on New version of EMC Avamar Virtual Edition integrates with Azure
Azure becomes the first public cloud supported by Avamar outside the EMC federation.

Storage

Canadian retailers ring up low scores in backup protection in new EMC-sponsored study

December 5, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canadian retailers ring up low scores in backup protection in new EMC-sponsored study
EMC Canada’s Michael Sharun also stressed that channel partners (and sales people generally) need to do a better job of adding backup and recovery to their storage sales.

Shawn Massey on selling disaster recovery
Sponsored Content

Selling disaster recovery

November 20, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Selling disaster recovery
Shawn Massey of Storagecraft on how solution providers can position disaster recovery and differentiate their offering in a crowded marketplace.

Cloud

Nutanix announces all-flash appliance, new synchronous replication capability

October 9, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix announces all-flash appliance, new synchronous replication capability
The company is announcing its first all-flash offering, the NX-9000 appliance. It is also announcing Metro Availability, a new capability which allows a customer to deliver synchronous data replication to two data centres.

Cloud

EMC partners with Ottawa’s CloudLink on integrated RecoverPoint cloud solution

September 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC partners with Ottawa’s CloudLink on integrated RecoverPoint cloud solution
The joint offering with EMC, available through EMC and its channel, is designed to provide a secure Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering that is less expensive and less complex to deploy than existing DR solutions.

Matt Urmston, director of product management at Storagecraft
Managed Services

Storagecraft doubles down on management

September 15, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Storagecraft doubles down on management
With its own control platform built out, and new hooks into key RMM vendors, Storagecraft is focused on management as it looks to larger customers.

VMware president and COO Carl Eschenbach
Channel Programs

VMware adds $10B to expected TAM

August 26, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on VMware adds $10B to expected TAM
VMware sees growth in cloud and end user computing, and tells partners it has to shift its sales motion as it becomes much more than a one-product company.

Storage

EMC adds RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

August 26, 2014 Mark Cox 1
The biggest attraction for the channel here is likely to be its integration with VSPEX, when that is available in Q4.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger at VMworld 2014.
Cloud

VMware’s Gelsinger: Hybrid is the endgame

August 25, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on VMware’s Gelsinger: Hybrid is the endgame
Hybrid IT isn’t a waypoint on the way to the cloud, it’s the right long-term approach for enterprises, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says ahead of VMworld.

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.