hyperconverged

Data Centre

Lenovo ThinkAgile HX solution with Nutanix certified on SAP HANA

October 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo ThinkAgile HX solution with Nutanix certified on SAP HANA
Lenovo’s ThinkSystem servers have long been certified on SAP HANA, but this is the first certification of their ThinkAgile HCI line with Nutanix, which they see as both a strong validation that HCI is ready for the enterprise, and a great market opportunity.

Cloud

NetApp on course to execute on aggressive channel strategy

October 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp on course to execute on aggressive channel strategy
NetApp asked its partners to place bets this year on the cloud, on HCI and on all-flash, with the first two acknowledged as being a significant ask for some partners. Almost two quarters in, the company said that results so far have been good.

Big Data

X-IO Technologies rebrands as Axellio to focus on edge and HCI after selling storage business to Violin

October 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on X-IO Technologies rebrands as Axellio to focus on edge and HCI after selling storage business to Violin
Axellio has only had its new product portfolio on the market for a little over a year, but has met with a strong response for their edge solutions in the performance part of the market, and just introduced a new HCI solution in partnership with Microsoft that is based on the Microsoft software-defined stack.

Storage

Violin Systems plans full integration with X-IO technology to converge high end performance scalability with price-performance leadership

October 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Violin Systems plans full integration with X-IO technology to converge high end performance scalability with price-performance leadership
Violin Systems, which is focused on the high end of the performance storage market, reaches down to acquire the SME-focused storage business of X-IO Storage. The long-term goal is to fully integrate both technologies to provide high-end systems with the price-performance advantages of the X-IO technology.

Channel Programs

Dell EMC extends Partner Preferred Program to 20,000 commercial accounts, unveils first Dell EMC-VMware co-skilled badges

October 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC extends Partner Preferred Program to 20,000 commercial accounts, unveils first Dell EMC-VMware co-skilled badges
Dell EMC’s quarterly Partner Broadcast was mainly about recounting their many trumps in the first half of the year, but there was some new news here which will interest their channel partners.

Backup

Cohesity adds service provider component to expanded partner program with significantly more resources

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity adds service provider component to expanded partner program with significantly more resources
Cohesity has doubled the amount of dollars allocated to their partner program, with new perks like rebates for sales to very large customers and formalized and expanded MDF. They have also established a model for service providers within the program, which provides mechanisms like consumption-based pricing suited to this business model.

Data Centre

Hitachi Vantara adds agility to data centre portfolio with hyperconverged, converged portfolio upgrades

September 28, 2018 Mark Cox 1
The HCI part of the portfolio introduces the first NVMe offering, while new support on the CI side was announced that will support very large deployments, and a refresh of the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Advisor’s management and orchestration software was announced.

Channel Programs

Hitachi Vantara channel partners climbing the Stairway to Value

September 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara channel partners climbing the Stairway to Value
With a year in the books since the launch of Hitachi Vantara, and five months into a brand new partner program, the company looks at the evolution of the channel changes that accompanied its own reinvention of itself, and what more remains to be done.

Backup

Lenovo adds Veeam to price list as part of strengthened partnership

September 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo adds Veeam to price list as part of strengthened partnership
Lenovo’s enhanced relationship with Veeam is but one part of a much broader initiative they are announcing Thursday at their Lenovo Transform event.

Backup

Veeam, Cisco expand relationship around Cisco HyperFlex to secondary side

August 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam, Cisco expand relationship around Cisco HyperFlex to secondary side
Cisco and Veeam partnered around HyperFlex over a year ago around a direct snapshot integration for HyperFlex primary storage. Now they are extending that partnership with a new integration on the secondary side that leverages enhancements made in HyperFlex 3.0.