The deal is aimed at strengthening Veeam in the enterprise, and NetApp in the midmarket and SMB, and follows up several other recent Veeam resale partnerships.
D&H co-President Dan Schwab was in attendance at the Toronto show and gave his views on the event and their Canadian business in general.
The M-Series family OEMed from Mellanox, which provide 100 GbE Ethernet connectivity, but also scale down to an SMB price point, provide HPE with a strong channel offering that has a large price-performance differential over Fibre Channel.
The new HPE relationship also brings the D&H HERO program, which provides additional HPE-focused support, into Canada.
While Extreme has always had a significant enterprise business to go along with their mid-market presence, their flurry of recent acquisitions, complemented by internal changes to optimize them, has created a much stronger enterprise focus.
The HPE Adaptive Backup and Recovery suite is composed of three products released last year as a unified package, and this release is designed to further that unified vision.
The Tasktop Integration Hub, focused on software development, provides integration services between large numbers of lifecycle and dev/ops tools – but the company is planning to expand its capabilities.
Ingram Micro Canada takes the veil off its IOT business, offering solution providers a number of pre-integrated IOT solutions across a number of industries.
HPE created its program to validate other vendor solutions and sell them through HPE late last year, and the program has exceeded expectations so far.
Bringing Nimble into the HPE fold raises many questions about how the integration will work. HPE Nimble gives an update on what has happened so far, and where it’s headed.
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 Hedvig software-defined technology collapses disparate tiers of storage and unifies block, file, and object interfaces in a single platform, providing HPE and its partners with a capability not otherwise available to them through HPE.
Qumulo’s software on HPE servers gives HPE a strong distributed file system offering to compete against Isilon and NetApp.
Coho Data, which has recently reworked itself into a software-defined vendor, has just launched a converged turnkey solution through the HPE Complete program.
The upgrade to the HPE composable computing platform provides it with 25GB/s connectivity to its blade servers, and 100 GB/s connectivity to its uplinks.
Mesosphere is looking for this new deal, which integrates their technology directly into HPE Synergy and HPE OneView, to further expand their reach among enterprises facing digital transformation.
HPE says that ProLiant Gen 10 is not only the world’s most secure Industry Standard Server – but that none of their competitors can possibly catch up.
While many of the program’s components existed before, HPE is doubling down on promoting them as a bundle, looking to get greater numbers of them involved in an area where the vendor says many partners need to be doing more.
Nine competencies are available, although some key issues, like how they will fit into Party Ready tiering, have still to be determined.
The exclusive deal with ClearCenter provides a Linux platform that provides server, networking and gateway functionality, and combined with the HPE ProLiant MicroServer, provides a low-cost offering for small businesses and SOHOs.
