This global deal, which is a very significant one for both companies, also has implications for Nozomi Networks’ strategy of bridging the gap between IT and OT, and for their IT vendor partners like Cisco and Fortinet and their joint channel partners.
WANDisco has developed and patented DConE, its own blockchain technology that they can use today to keep data consistent across multiple clouds, and which they plan to be able to eventually use to manage distributed blockchain environments as well.
Sonrai also has a strong Canadian connection, with one of the two founders and the company’s engineering based in Fredericton N.B., as was the case with their previous company, Q1 Labs.
IBM pledges that all aspects of their and Red Hat’s vendor and channel partnerships will continue, including their channel partnerships, and vendor relationships.
In addition to expanding their capability for the customer to access file data in object clouds, Komprise announced support for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
BI provider Looker is kicking off their JOIN 2018 event in San Francisco with the launch of the latest version of their platform
Kicking off VMworld in VMware’s 20th year, Pat Gelsinger outlines the company’s history of building bridges, and identifies the next bridge to cross.
The new CTERA appliances triple the speed, double the capacity and quadruple the number of users supported over CTERA’s previous edge offerings, allowing them to position them as a full NAS replacement.
New cloud native capabilities will have particular value for Rubrik channel partners, who will be able to offer customers more strategic services rather than providing tactical implementation.
Intelligent data management startup Komprise has also expanded their distribution network, signing on Lifeboat to complement original distribution partner Synnex
Veeam CEO Peter McKay credited Veeam’s expansion of their strategic relationships as critical to their success in 2017, and indicated they plan significant further expansion here going forward.
As SAS seeks to add AI to all its analytics offerings, it says partners play an important role in connecting those smart systems with domain and business expertise.
The McAfee integration with IBM Resilient IRP is available now, and will soon be complemented by full certification of interoperability, which will provider customers and partners with even more value.
IBM CEO GInni Rometty suggests we’re at the beginning of an era where the big differentiator will be how fast companies can learn, with a lot of help from their machines.
Zerto is already an established IBM partner, including a relationship with IBM Resiliency. The partnership is now being extended to the IBM Resiliency Orchestration DRaaS offering.
E8 Storage is looking to recruit partners with a focus on markets where NVMe is a strong opportunity, and with Canada being a green-fields opportunity for partners.
The Spectra Stack is a modular tape library, while the Spectra T950V is a less expensive version of the Spectra T950.
Fortinet now has 42 strategic vendor partnerships, which include many direct competitors, and these relationships are critical to their Security Fabric strategy.
Incents for new logos are on the way, but an even bigger change will be Nutanix moving from partners teaming with sales to making partners more autonomous.
The 9.5.3 release contains some major elements which were scheduled to be part of Veeam 10, but which were pushed out now since they are ready to go.
