hyperconverged

Cloud

‘Gamechanging’ Citrix Workspace Cloud great opportunity for Canadian partners

May 14, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on ‘Gamechanging’ Citrix Workspace Cloud great opportunity for Canadian partners
Michael Murphy, vice-president and country manager of Citrix Canada, reviewed announcements from this year’s Citrix Synergy likely to be of particular interest to Canadian partners and customers.

Mobility

Citrix enters hyperconverged infrastructure market with Citrix Melio

May 13, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix enters hyperconverged infrastructure market with Citrix Melio
Other Day One announcements included XenServer 6.5 Service Pack 1, XenMobile 10.1, and enhancements to Citrix’s ShareFile secure file sharing and syncing tool.

Data Centre

Atlantis Computing enters hyperconverged market with low-cost, high performance appliance

May 5, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Atlantis Computing enters hyperconverged market with low-cost, high performance appliance
Atlantis is adapting its high-performance USX software defined storage platform into a hyperconverged appliance that is easy to deploy and use, and is much less expensive than existing competitive offerings.

Data Centre

New VCE VxRack designed to bring appliance simplicity to datacentre

May 4, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on New VCE VxRack designed to bring appliance simplicity to datacentre
EMC sees this as a new category of product, which provides the same benefits as hyperconverged appliances provide, but to the datacentre, where the appliances do not scale well.

Networking

Riverbed unveils reframed SteelFusion with new hyperconverged platform

April 8, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed unveils reframed SteelFusion with new hyperconverged platform
The new software-defined platform has 2.5 times more compute and ten times more storage than its predecessor, as well as software enhancements that improve security and speed up provisioning and recovery times.

Hardware

Huawei, DataCore partner on hyper-converged solutions

March 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Huawei, DataCore partner on hyper-converged solutions
The DataCore-Huawei offerings are targeted at larger customers than the midmarket and lower end of the enterprise where other hyperconverged vendors have been most successful to date.

Data Centre

Dell announces next generation of XC series converged appliances with Nutanix software

February 25, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell announces next generation of XC series converged appliances with Nutanix software
The new offerings benefit from the thirteenth generation of Dell servers, but also have new configurability and support flexibility options which can bring down the price point significantly.

Data Centre

Scale Computing enhances hyperconverged platform interface for SMBs in 6.0 release

February 24, 2015 Mark Cox 1
Scale is placing its bet on the SMB space, and the latest changes to its platform bring more of the simplicity that market wants.

Steve Kaplan, vice president of channel and strategic sales at Nutanix.
Data Centre

Nutanix adds Canadian channel sales director

February 19, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Nutanix adds Canadian channel sales director
Frank Czyz, new Canadian channel chief at Nutanix, looks to replicate the hyperconverged vendor’s U.S. success in getting closer to top partners.

Channel Programs

Startup Infinio looks to channel to take on flash vendors with new I/O optimization solution

February 2, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Startup Infinio looks to channel to take on flash vendors with new I/O optimization solution
Infinio is announcing a partner program, looking to sign up and support a significant number of partners to sell an innovative software-based I/O optimization solution.