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Cloud

Nutanix pleased with business growth, channel progress in Canada

May 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix pleased with business growth, channel progress in Canada
Nutanix’s Canadian country manager Robert Yelenich talked with ChannelBuzz at .NEXT and provided an update on the company’s Canadian business, and the progress of their channel in selling and deploying Nutanix’s cloud offerings beyond the HCI foundation.

Networking

StorMagic partners with Cisco, Citrix on edge appliance designed for Citrix Workspace Service

May 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on StorMagic partners with Cisco, Citrix on edge appliance designed for Citrix Workspace Service
The new StorMagic appliance, leveraging its relationship with two of their strategic partners, will go to market through the Cisco channel.

Cloud

New Nutanix announcements flesh out and extend broad strategic vision

May 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Nutanix announcements flesh out and extend broad strategic vision
Nutanix is making three major announcements at their event – Nutanix Flow, Nutanix Beam and Nutanix Era – which are directed to expanding their high-level vision above HCI of making life easy for customers in a multi-cloud world.

Storage

Dell EMC upgrades VxRail, VxRack in push towards VMware-based Clouds

May 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC upgrades VxRail, VxRack in push towards VMware-based Clouds
Technology from the latest 14th generation PowerEdge servers significantly beefs up both the new Vxrail and VxRack offerings.

Backup

Dell EMC puts stake in the ground for the channel with three strategic imperatives

May 1, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC puts stake in the ground for the channel with three strategic imperatives
At their Global Partner Summit kicking off their Dell Technologies World, Dell EMC delineated their channel strategy for the year ahead, and a lengthy list of program offerings designed to help execute it.

Backup

Cohesity adds CloudSpin capability for faster test/dev in the cloud

April 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity adds CloudSpin capability for faster test/dev in the cloud
CloudSpin will be integrated as a free component within the Cohesity platform when it becomes available in 90-120 days.

Data Centre

Cyxtera looks to next-gen data centre colo business with new CXD platform and two on-demand services

April 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cyxtera looks to next-gen data centre colo business with new CXD platform and two on-demand services
The first two services around the new Cyxtera Extensible Data Center Platform are on demand connectivity and compute, with the latter enabled through a partnership with Nutanix.

Channel Programs

Bare metal container platform provider Diamanti launches first channel program

April 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Bare metal container platform provider Diamanti launches first channel program
Diamanti quickly adopted an all-channel go-to-market in the face of resellers looking for a turnkey enterprise container management solution, and now has introduced a program to support what will start off as a select value channel.

Storage

New DataCore leadership team rethinks approach to market to drive growth agenda

April 11, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New DataCore leadership team rethinks approach to market to drive growth agenda
DataCore has a new CEO, Dave Zabrowski, and a new CMO, Gerardo Dada. They were brought in to drive the company to a leadership position that has eluded the company to date, and discuss with ChannelBuzz their strategy to bring this about.

Backup

Pivot3 announces cloud version of their HCI offering for the AWS Cloud

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pivot3 announces cloud version of their HCI offering for the AWS Cloud
The features of the next-gen Pivot3 Acuity platform introduced last year are being migrated to the cloud, beginning with using its dynamic provisioning capability for backup and disaster recovery.