hybrid cloud

Seagate looks to new enterprise partners as eVault brand departs in enterprise push

July 16, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The scalability of the old eVault solutions has been massively increased up to 400 per cent, so Seagate is rebranding them with the Seagate name and looking to extend them into the enterprise data centre market, as well as the ROBO space where they play today.

Acronis unveils their next-gen data protection platform

July 8, 2015 Mark Cox 1

Acronis beefs up their data protection platform by enhancing its disaster recovery capability and file sync and share capabilities.

Xangati eyes managed services partners in channel program reboot

June 22, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The virtualized performance management solutions startup has made unsuccessful channel initiatives before, but now armed with personnel and resources to execute, they are looking to enlist Citrix and VMware partners with professional services practices – and for the first time, MSPs.

Virtustream acquired by EMC, to become separate EMC Federation business

May 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Virtustream will form the basis of EMC’s managed cloud services business, and will be sold both direct and through service provider and integrator partners.

Citrix delivers core cloud solution with Citrix Workspace Cloud

May 13, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The highlight of the first day at Citrix Synergy was the announcement of Citrix Workspace Cloud, a platform of services for the creation of complete workspaces with a strong MSP play.

Microsoft channel chief Sorgen talks up cloud to partners

May 11, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

While the software giant is actively transforming itself into a cloud giant as well, its channel chief says partners need to take fuller advantage of what Microsoft can offer on this journey, and aggressively benchmark themselves in the transformation.

EMC looks to realign alliances strategy

May 6, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The massive pace of technological change is compelling EMC to reassess how it goes to market with its enterprise alliance partners, and while changes to the strategy are very much a work in progress, they are likely to bring significant change to the relationship between the vendor, its alliance partners, and solution providers.