HPE

HPE looks to turbocharge partner marketing with new Digital Marketing Program

June 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

HPE unveils more details on channel competencies

June 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Nine competencies are available, although some key issues, like how they will fit into Party Ready tiering, have still to be determined.

HPE strengthens small business servers with ClearCenter partnership, reborn MicroServer

June 5, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

Cohesity broadens go-to-market with HPE, Azure, Lenovo partnerships

May 26, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The HPE deal, which is the only one that has a reselling component, is likely to have the most immediate impact for Cohesity, but both the others have different types of potential as well.

MSA refresh, Nimble availability highlight HPE storage portfolio update

May 24, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

HPE also announces a replacement for its mid-range 3PAR 8450 all-flash array, a Nimble secondary flash array and both new and enhanced storage software.

Nutanix announces new software validations for HPE, Cisco servers

May 3, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Nutanix also announced Nutanix Go, a program that allows acquisition of their appliances on a cloud-like purchase model, but for now, it’s only available in the U.S.

eerti Melkote, senior vice president and general manager of Aruba

HPE: Want to succeed in IoT? Figure out the security first

April 19, 2017 Robert Dutt 2

“Without a good security story, companies simply won’t adopt [IoT]. There’s too much at risk,” HPE Aruba’s Keerti Melkote says.

Cohesity adds object storage, NAS support in fourth gen secondary storage platform

April 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Cohesity also announced its oversubscribed $90 million Series C funding round – which has a couple of interesting partner angles built in.

Axcient makes broad enhancements to SMB cloud platform

March 22, 2017 Mark Cox 1

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.