Tag Archive for Hybrid

New Year’s Podcast Series: Ed Galasso of Tech Data Canada

Ed Galasso, general manager of Tech Data Canada

Tech Data Canada boss Ed Galasso joins the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast to discuss the distributor’s highlights of the year 2018 and offer his thoughts for what’s to come in 2019.

Extension of HPE InfoSight across infrastructure highlights flurry of intelligent storage news at HPE Discover

Several other significant intelligent storage announcements were also made, including a new Workload Planner utility for InfoSight, new Docker and Kubernetes support for HPE Cloud Volumes, the extension of Peer Persistence from HPE 3PAR to HPE Nimble – and the introduction of HPE Memory-Driven Flash, first for 3PAR, and for Nimble next year.

VMware on track for Canadian launch with AWS in first quarter 2019

VMware Canada country manager Sean Forkan

As it launches its VMware on AWS infrastructure offering Australia, VMware sets a target Canadian launch for the first quarter of 2019, and the Canadian team says the timing is ideal for market maturity and demand.

First-ever OneLogin global channel chief Hurley increasing enterprise emphasis with channel program, strategy changes

OneLogin, which has been focused more on cloud identity management for SMBs, has gotten more aggressive in the enterprise with the differentiating hybrid capabilities from its introduction of OneLogic Access earlier this year.

Hitachi Vantara announces new VSP storage systems plus analytics and software updates

Hitachi Vantara expands their midrange offerings for both all-flash and hybrid platforms and extends their flat service model from the all-flash series to their hybrid series as well.

New HPE Nimble arrays feature enhanced price-performance, inline always-on dedupe and Store More guarantee

The new Nimble arrays are also fully enabled for SCM and NVMe for when HPE supports them on these models, but the support is not yet there out of the gate.

Liquidware strengthens DaaS appeal with new ability to save direct to object-based cloud storage

Liquidware also thinks that the capability to save directly to the AWS, Microsoft and Google object storage clouds, which is a first in this space, will also appeal to customers with a hybrid desktop computing strategy, who are not yet ready for a full move to DaaS.

Pulse Secure adds cloud and virtual Pulse Secure Appliances

The expansion of the PSA appliances beyond their original form factor will open up new opportunities for Pulse Secure partners, particularly around LAN security regarding contractors and partners, which has become a subject of major concern, and where cloud and virtual models offer more flexibility for some use cases.

HP vet Ken Archer lays out vision and plans as new Nectar Chief Revenue Officer

Avaya unveils channel-only video conferencing and collaboration service

Avaya Equinox Meetings Online is a rebranded and significantly upgraded updating of Avaya Live Video. It is a service which integrates well with on-prem video, and is aimed at the premium part of the market where video quality matters.

NetApp augments Big Data portfolio with new systems, software

A new version of the NetApp SANtricity software powers the new all-flash EF570 and hybrid E5700. The new software also adds a new System Manager tool and improves Cloud Connector.

Rubrik looks to get innovative with new Service Delivery Partner Program

It includes a variety of different engagement models, depending on the way the partner’s business is structured, and makes some adjustments to costing as traditionally done in MSP programs.