hyperconverged

Data Centre

Lenovo expands hyperconverged portfolio with SimpliVity alliance

August 20, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo expands hyperconverged portfolio with SimpliVity alliance
Lenovo announces its second hyperconverged partnership this week, which like the first is focused primarily on the SMB space, where Lenovo is initially focusing with its hyperconverged strategy.

Data Centre

Lenovo, StorMagic partner on hyperconverged low cost ROBO solutions

August 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo, StorMagic partner on hyperconverged low cost ROBO solutions
Lenovo teams up with software-defined storage vendor StorMagic to offer three new hyperconverged offerings. They are unlikely to be their last.

Servers

HP announces second generation of hyperconverged StoreVirtual appliances

August 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP announces second generation of hyperconverged StoreVirtual appliances
The new CS 250 is a much-enhanced followup to the appliance HP first announced in December at HP Discover, and which came to market earlier this year.

Distribution

SimpliVity to boost Canadian business with new Cisco-related distribution deal

July 22, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on SimpliVity to boost Canadian business with new Cisco-related distribution deal
SimpliVity is about to announce a new distribution deal which will strengthen its developing Canadian business, and make their joint solution with Cisco available as a single SKU.

Cloud

Toronto’s Breqwatr taking appliance to simplify private cloud deployments through the channel

July 2, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Toronto’s Breqwatr taking appliance to simplify private cloud deployments through the channel
The Toronto startup is going to market through the channel out of the gate, and unusually for a startup, has been picked up by a major distributor. Arrow is handling their North American distribution.

Data Centre

Nutanix makes ‘biggest announcement ever’ with platform for simpler, cheaper virtualization

June 9, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix makes ‘biggest announcement ever’ with platform for simpler, cheaper virtualization
Acropolis combines Nutanix’s flagship Distributed Storage Fabric with their own hypervisor and a new app mobility fabric which will decouple apps from their hypervisor, let users use the Nutanix hypervisor, and massively cut their virtualization costs. Prism complements it with simple management. Acropolis and Prism make up the new Xtreme Computing Platform.

Data Centre

Scale Computing continues its buildout of SMB hyperconverged channel

May 21, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing continues its buildout of SMB hyperconverged channel
While building a strong SMB-focused channel to sell hyperconverged is more challenging than a channel selling to larger customers, Scale is counting on the simplicity of its solution to even the odds for its partners, who are the company’s entire sales force.

Data Centre

Nutanix looks to drive innovation with new Community Edition beta

May 20, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix looks to drive innovation with new Community Edition beta
Response to the news of the free edition has been exceptionally strong among Canadian partners.

Software

Maxta upgrades hyperconverged software with new UI, enhanced reporting

May 18, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Maxta upgrades hyperconverged software with new UI, enhanced reporting
Maxta also announced MxCloudConnect, a cloud based call-home capability, as well as support for OpenStack Kilo out of the gate.

Data Centre

Hyperconverged startup Stratoscale gears up for late summer product release

May 15, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hyperconverged startup Stratoscale gears up for late summer product release
Stratoscale emerged from stealth late last year with some powerful vendor investors, a unique hyperconverged value proposition and a 100 per cent channel strategy. The plan is for the product to be available this summer.