Other new elements, which will be formally announced next week, include an early trial for AFS backup and more efficient support for ROBO environments.
For the first time, Commvault solutions specific to Cisco will be part of Cisco’s Global Price List, making it easier for the two companies’ mutual resellers to deliver joint solutions.
The distribution agreement formalizes a working agreement which began around the companies’ mutual relationship with ConnectWise, and while this one is for Canada only, a U.S. one is coming soon.
In addition to upgrades to VxRail, VxRack SDDC, both their Enterprise and Native hybrid clouds, and new turnkey VMware Ready Systems for ‘do it yourself’ cloud deployments, Dell EMC also announced GA for XtemIO X2 and an upgrade of their Dell Data Protection Suite for Applications.
The cloud services have the same OS as Nutanix’s on-prem software, which provides major benefits for customers – and significant new opportunities for partners.
The BackupAssist-as-a-Service program for MSPs makes the Australian-headquartered company a much more forceful player in the North American MSP market.
The new Storage Guardian integration provides real-time data recovery times and recovery point objectives, rather than estimates, which partners can use to offer new services.
The enhancements, which include support for Oracle RMAN and SQL, as well as the Hyper-V and Nutanix Acropolis hypervisors, strengthen the Rubrik enterprise play.
Zerto has joined the HPE Complete program, making Zerto Virtual Replication an HPE part number that can be ordered directly from HPE for any HPE platform.
The new version of the software designed for VM environments upgrades the interface, improves DR capability and makes it easier to migrate VM workloads to the cloud.
BackupAssist has timed a new channel initiative in North America with Version 10 of its software, which adds several enterprise grade features to its SMB-focused solution.
The final day of VeeamON saw Veeam announce a new DR tool for Azure, management pack enhancements for better visibility, and improvements to Backup for Office 365.
New initiatives include a Veeam Accredited Service Partner program, the release candidate of a new Veeam Availability Console and new multi-tenancy in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365.
The new high-end VMAX model has the expected new oomph in performance, but most of the channel will be more interested in the new software features, which will also apply to VMAX 250F, a stronger channel play.
The Axcient Business Recovery Cloud platform gets a refresh of its HPE hardware, updates for the latest IT environments, and a flurry of improvements based on MSP recommendations.