CliQr has been cautious in developing a channel, but is now expanding its go-to-market strategy with both resellers and technology partners.
Cloud, Data Centre
Cloud management startup CliQr making channel push in 2016
by Mark Cox •
Tag Archive for hyperconverged
Data Centre, Storage
Plexistor’s software-defined memory platform reaches the market
by Mark Cox •
Plexistor’s Software Defined Memory architecture converges memory and storage technologies to drastically reduce latency and significantly improve performance of data-intensive applications.
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Data Centre, Software
Atlantis unveils two node hyperconverged appliance for ROBO market
by Mark Cox •
Atlantis also announced a new relationship with Dell, the only major OEM for whom its software was not customized when the first Atlantis hyperconverged products were announced last year.
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Data Centre, Servers, Storage
Stratoscale targets test-dev market with launch of software-defined architecture
by Mark Cox •
The hyperconverged startup emphasizes the end product, a highly scalable out-of-the-box private cloud initially focused on development and testing environments, rather than the hyperconverged label itself, which they think has been somewhat overused.
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Data Centre, Storage, Virtualization
Scale Computing ramps up Canadian staff, resources for big 2016 push
by Mark Cox •
Scale, which is distinct among the hyperconverged vendors with its SMB focus, is not new to Canada, but they have added new staff and resources here, and developed new relationships with key DMRs to take their Canadian business to the next level.
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Servers
Lenovo: We want to be the top OEM for hyperconverged
by Mark Cox •
Lenovo sees strong momentum in its server business, with its core server business showing signs of beginning to scale growth, and its roster of hyperconverged partners offering significant potential in that space.
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Data Centre, Servers, Storage, Virtualization
Nutanix adds another big strategic partnership with Lenovo deal
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix sees the Lenovo deal as equal in importance to the Dell one inked last year and said its announcement shortly after Dell’s purchase of EMC is a coincidence. The plan is to get jointly branded products to market through Lenovo in Q1 of 2016.
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Data Centre, Storage, Virtualization
Nutanix aggressively claiming mantle of ‘only true hyperconverged player’
by Mark Cox •
At a customer event in Toronto Wednesday, Nutanix presented the audience with a full-throated positioning of themselves as well ahead of their competition, and also gave an update on their progress in Canada
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Data Centre, Virtualization
VMware continues its hyper-converged journey with EVO SDDC
by Robert Dutt •
VMware’s new Evo SDDC spec takes its converged architecture play into the high end, aiming to simply create software-defined data centres.
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Data Centre, Managed Services
Nutanix targets service provider market with new FlexPrice purchasing program
by Mark Cox •
Nutanix is making a major initiative targeting service provider customers, which sees it introduce a program that lets them pay for their infrastructure by subscription, as they are paid themselves.
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Data Centre, Servers, Storage, Virtualization
Lenovo expands hyperconverged portfolio with SimpliVity alliance
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Data Centre, Servers, Storage, Virtualization
Lenovo, StorMagic partner on hyperconverged low cost ROBO solutions
by Mark Cox •
Lenovo teams up with software-defined storage vendor StorMagic to offer three new hyperconverged offerings. They are unlikely to be their last.
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Servers, Storage
HP announces second generation of hyperconverged StoreVirtual appliances
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Distribution, Storage
SimpliVity to boost Canadian business with new Cisco-related distribution deal
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Cloud
Toronto’s Breqwatr taking appliance to simplify private cloud deployments through the channel
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Data Centre, Software
Nutanix makes ‘biggest announcement ever’ with platform for simpler, cheaper virtualization
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Data Centre, Storage, Virtualization
Scale Computing continues its buildout of SMB hyperconverged channel
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Data Centre, Storage
Nutanix looks to drive innovation with new Community Edition beta
by Mark Cox •
Response to the news of the free edition has been exceptionally strong among Canadian partners.
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Software, Storage
Maxta upgrades hyperconverged software with new UI, enhanced reporting
by Mark Cox •
Maxta also announced MxCloudConnect, a cloud based call-home capability, as well as support for OpenStack Kilo out of the gate.
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Data Centre, Servers, Storage, Virtualization
Hyperconverged startup Stratoscale gears up for late summer product release
by Mark Cox •
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.
