hyper-converged

Mobility

Nutanix-powered Dell XC Xpress for VDI highlights flurry of Dell VDI announcements

July 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix-powered Dell XC Xpress for VDI highlights flurry of Dell VDI announcements
Dell also announces a new Latitude VDI notebook, upgrading of its ThinOS 8.4 software, and new management software.

Cloud

Nutanix moves strongly into enterprise in Canada with new sales strategy

July 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix moves strongly into enterprise in Canada with new sales strategy
Robert Yelenich, Nutanix country manager in Canada, talks with ChannelBuzz about the measures he has taken over the past year in pursuit of the aggressive growth strategy he laid out a year ago.

Cloud

“There’s a method to the madness:” Nutanix CEO Pandey talks strategy

July 5, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on “There’s a method to the madness:” Nutanix CEO Pandey talks strategy
Nutanix founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey talks about where the company is headed, on multiple fronts.

Backup

Nutanix, Veeam turn their relationship into a partnership

June 29, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix, Veeam turn their relationship into a partnership
Veeam will support Nutanix, for the first time, by the end of the year, and Nutanix will promote Veeam as their premier availability vendor.

Backup

Pure Storage, Cohesity expand partnership with FlashBlade integration

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The new integration between Pure and Cohesity follows up an integration around Pure’s FlashArray//M earlier this year.

Cloud

HPE unveils Project New Stack as top end of expanded HPE composable strategy

June 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE unveils Project New Stack as top end of expanded HPE composable strategy
HPE formally announces its project to extend HPE Synergy to the full hybrid IT environment, which is still known by its internal code name, and which is still in the tech preview stage, but should reach beta in the fall. The company hopes it will be ready to sell by December.

Big Data

HPE promises quick channel integration, availability of new acquisitions

June 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE promises quick channel integration, availability of new acquisitions
In contrast with Aruba, where the program was deliberately kept separate from HPE Partner Ready, the plan with the many new acquisitions is to bring everything together quickly as part of an integrated strategy.

Storage

Entry into hyper-converged market highlights multiple major NetApp announcements

June 5, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Entry into hyper-converged market highlights multiple major NetApp announcements
Other highlights include the new version of their ONTAP software, a new usage-based consumption option to purchase infrastructure, enhancing their OCI software, and expanding their free controller upgrade program to credits for a broader array of NetApp purchases.

Storage

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

May 26, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity broadens go-to-market with HPE, Azure, Lenovo partnerships
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.

Rafael Garzon, vice president of the Americas partner organization at Ctirix
Distribution

Citrix adds Arrow as second North American distributor

May 25, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Citrix adds Arrow as second North American distributor
Citrix steps away from having Ingram as its exclusive North American distributor, aims to re-engage lapse partners and attack the midmarket with Arrow.