Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Microsoft announce a cloud deal that will see the two “prefer” each other’s hybrid cloud offerings and more.
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Microsoft, HPE partner on cloud integration
by Robert Dutt •
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Cloud, Distribution, Storage
New Ingram Micro-Acronis deal all about the cloud in Canada
by Mark Cox •
Ingram Micro has significantly expanded their relationship with Acronis, but only part of the deal is relevant to the Canadian market.
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Storage, Virtualization
Veeam CEO lays out three-pronged strategy going forward
by Mark Cox •
Deepening enterprise penetration, increasing cloud business, and improving attach rate on partner VMware and Microsoft sales are at the top of Veeam’s agenda for this year.
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Storage, Virtualization
Veeam unveils Managed Backup Portal to help drive partner cloud business
by Mark Cox •
Veeam is emphasizing that partners not in the cloud need to develop a cloud option for their customers, and opened their VeeamON event by announcing a simple-to-use portal to help partners develop a service provider practice.
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Cloud
EMC, DiData team to tackle mid-enterprise cloud
by Robert Dutt •
The Catalyst Alliance will see EMC and Dimension Data team up to make cloud offerings more available to midsize enterprises with quicker deployments.
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Managed Services, Security
AVG launches ‘game changing’ new Managed Workplace
by Mark Cox •
The big change is the addition of an integrated remote control solution, which will be free to MSP partners, but the new version also improves the integrated backup and disaster recovery, adds a device manager to Mac support, and upgrades its integrated antivirus technology.
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Distribution, Managed Services
Relyenz, new CharTec SaaS distribution division, looks to build large MSP security channel
by Mark Cox •
Relyenz takes over the managed services that CharTec had added to sell to their MSP customers, has added a new one, and plans to keep adding new services backed by Tier 3 support.
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Cloud, Managed Services, Storage
New Arcserve Cloud caps frenetic year since company’s independence from CA
by Mark Cox •
The cloud itself comes from a partner, which does have a Canadian data centre capacity. It is first available as an integration with Arcserve’s UDP appliance and is likely to have special appeal to MSPs, including those not presently offering managed services.
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Managed Services, Storage
Acronis unveils their next-gen data protection platform
by Mark Cox •
Acronis beefs up their data protection platform by enhancing its disaster recovery capability and file sync and share capabilities.
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Managed Services, Solution Provider News
Toshiba signs on IT Weapons to take Toshiba-branded IT services to market
by Mark Cox •
Having exited the consumer market in Canada, Toshiba is beefing up their B2B offerings, and has partnered with Brampton managed services provider IT Weapons to provide what will be a growing package of services and support.
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Cloud, Marketing, Storage
Asigra building brand, partner opportunities, with aggressive marketing campaign
by Mark Cox •
Asigra has a different set of marketing concerns than a decade ago, when customers didn’t know their name at all, but they are continuing to ramp up their efforts.
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Solution Provider News, Storage
Toronto’s Storage Guardian’s new data centre protects data, business operations
by Mark Cox •
Toronto solution provider Storage Guardian has opened a new data centre, which also contains space and facilities to provide temporary office space to customers whose offices are closed by a disaster.
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Data Centre, Virtualization
Accelerite acquisition of Convirture gives partners end-to-end management solution
by Mark Cox •
Adding Convirture’s day to day operations management capability to Accelerite’s disaster recovery focus provides a single pane of glass with a consolidated view of the management of the multiple clouds and internal virtualization technologies in modern hybrid data centres.
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Managed Services, Storage
LogicNow introduces new per-device pricing for MAX Backup
by Mark Cox •
The company formerly known as GFI MAX is introducing a new DRaaS pricing option that charges by the device instead of data usage, something they believe will especially appeal to partners serving larger customers.
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Cloud, Storage
Veeam to add cloud-based VM replication to Veeam Availability Suite v9
by Mark Cox •
The new functionality will also let service providers provide their customers with cloud-based disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) through the new Veeam Cloud Connect Replication for Service Providers offering.
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Cloud, Managed Services, Storage
Axcient targets remote and branch offices, smaller businesses with Direct to Cloud offering
by Mark Cox •
The new cloud-only solution is targeted at customers who don’t want the expense or trouble or deploying a physical or virtual device locally, and is expected to significantly increase the number of Axcient’s MSP partners.
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Small Business, Storage
Paragon Software unveils simpler unified host-based backup pricing model
by Mark Cox •
Paragon’s market is the sub-100 user market, and they believe this new model is priced and simplified to become disruptive in this space.
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Podcasts, Sponsored Content, Storage
New Year’s Podcast Series: Shawn Massey of Storagecraft
by Robert Dutt •
Storagecraft channel sales manager Shawn Massey recaps 2014 in DR, and offers his preview for what his company, and the industry, will accomplish in 2015.
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Cloud, Storage
Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13
by Mark Cox •
The long-time cloud backup solution’s new features include Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service enablement, open infrastructure support for FreeBSD on ZFS and CentOS, and integration with Linear Tape File System for archiving.
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Big Data, Security, Sponsored Content
The double life of data
by Guest Poster •
Avnet Technology Solutions explores the dual roles solution providers play in helping customers gain value from their data, and keeping that same data safe.
