Tag Archive for hyper-converged

ARM hyper-converged vendor KALEAO enlists Vancouver’s Tuangru as key channel partner

KALEAO, which first brought product to market last October, provides an update of both its overall and channel strategies, and where Tuangru fits in.

Veeam expands Cisco relationship with unique snapshot integration with Cisco HyperFlex

Veeam is the first availability vendor to be deeply integrated with the new 2.0 version of Cisco’s HyperFlex hyper-converged platform, which will be good news for joint Veeam and Cisco partners.

Massive partner recruitment a key goal of new Scale Computing channel program

The restructured Scale program accommodates managed service providers for the first time, and also makes provision for referral partners.

Lenovo to place new focus on workstations, desktops, low-lying services in 2017

Lenovo is preparing new incent programs to stimulate activity in these areas, believing that as areas where Lenovo lags the market, they represent relatively easy opportunities to grow against the market.

Dell EMC brings turnkey hybrid cloud in a box onto VxRail appliances

The Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud has previously been available on VxBlock, but it will soon be available on VxRail appliances, broadening its presence down market and greatly increasing the channel opportunity.

Cohesity announces virtual version of its unified secondary storage platform

The Cohesity DataPlatform Virtual Edition is intended for remote and branch office use cases, as is a new hardware alternative, the C2100, also being announced.

ZeroStack adds machine-based AI to scale-out private cloud solution

ZeroStack adds a new dimension to their original offering, and lays out the road map for the next two stages of their technology rollout, both of which are scheduled for later this year.

Big changes in data centre technology to help channel in 2017: Dell EMC

The CTO of the Dell EMC Converged Platforms & Solutions Division also stressed the continuing importance of their Nutanix partnership, emphasizing its centrality to Dell EMC’s growing relationship with Microsoft.

Dell collaborates with Citrix on new XenDesktop VXRail solution

The offering with Citrix provides the same capabilities of the latest version of a VMRail VMware solution announced at last year’s Dell EMC World, and gives Dell partners an offering for their Citrix focused customers.

New Pivot3 Canada country manager Grant Aitken looks to raise company visibility

Pivot3’s hyper-converged Canadian business is much stronger today in the physical security space than in compute, and addressing that is one of ex-VMware Canadian country manager’s Aitken’s top priorities.

HPE, Atlantis kick off new hyper-converged infrastructure Citrix Ready program

Citrix has announced the Citrix Ready HCI Workspace Appliance Program, with Atlantis and HPE collaborating with Citrix on the first offering in it, the HPE Intelligent Edge Workspace. It is a turnkey virtual workspace appliance with mid-market simplicity and pricing.

Cohesity unveils new product for hyper-converged backup to AWS and Azure

Cohesity, which aims to consolidate all forms of secondary storage on a single platform, builds on cloud archiving and tiering in their spring release with a platform with full cloud capability.

Partner tiering, accreditation changes on horizon for Lenovo

Lenovo’s increased emphasis over the last year on elements in the server space that go well beyond 1P and 2P servers is leading to some significant programmatic changes coming in 2017.

Nutanix adds native enterprise networking capabilities to enterprise cloud stack

Nutanix is announcing several new networking new capabilities which they believe are critical to their ultimate goal of doing in the private cloud space what AWS did in the public space. Availability of some of this is still a while off, however.