Chad Dunn, who runs HCI product management at Dell EMC, thinks the stars are aligned for hyperconverged to continue its breakneck growth rates this year
Data Centre, Servers, Storage
Why hyperconverged won’t slow down in 2019: Dell EMC
by Mark Cox •
Tag Archive for Kubernetes
Big Data, Cloud, Software
Major new channel synergies anticipated from Qlik acquisition of Attunity
by Mark Cox •
While Attunity’s smaller channel, which is principally SI’s, will realize more significant and elastic capabilities through Qlik, Qlik’s legacy channel, which is much larger, will reap new data integration capabilities. This is something Qlik sees as vital because of where they believe the analytics market is headed.
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Cloud, Managed Services
LogicMonitor introduces two new services, including Kubernetes monitoring
by Mark Cox •
As Logic Monitor gears up to launch a channel program and a partner portal, it unveils a new Kubernetes service, and another with a services-based focus that monitors resources together in logical groups.
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Cloud, Storage
Elastifile deepens Google partnership with first fully managed scale-out file storage service for GCP
by Mark Cox •
The new managed service, operated by Elastifile, but with a Google UI and Google billing of the customer, is the product of a deep collaboration between the two companies.
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Cloud, Storage, Virtualization
Extension of HPE InfoSight across infrastructure highlights flurry of intelligent storage news at HPE Discover
by Mark Cox •
Several other significant intelligent storage announcements were also made, including a new Workload Planner utility for InfoSight, new Docker and Kubernetes support for HPE Cloud Volumes, the extension of Peer Persistence from HPE 3PAR to HPE Nimble – and the introduction of HPE Memory-Driven Flash, first for 3PAR, and for Nimble next year.
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Cloud, Data Centre, Virtualization
Address scary change with fearless, optimistic change: Dell Technologies
by Mark Cox •
Pivotal executive and proud tech geek Chad Sakac gave the keynote at the Dell Technologies Forum in Toronto on Tuesday, deconstructing the present process of technological change, and counselling customers on a strategy of how to address scary change that transcended the Dell companies, which involves embracing change in their companies and providing ways to encourage it from the bottom up.
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Cloud, Operating Systems
IBM looks to preserve and enhance Red Hat commitment to channel going forward
by Mark Cox •
IBM pledges that all aspects of their and Red Hat’s vendor and channel partnerships will continue, including their channel partnerships, and vendor relationships.
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Storage
NetApp extends data fabric with DevOps announcements
by Mark Cox •
NetApp made a flurry of announcements on Wednesday at Insight extending their data fabric, with special relevance to developers and architects, emphasizing their cloud-first focus, and articulating their hybrid and multi-cloud proposition.
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Cloud, Storage
NetApp CEO Kurian lays out four principles for leading in a data-driven world
by Mark Cox •
While digital transformation has become a motherhood term in the tech industry, NetApp CEO George Kurian kicked off the opening keynote at NetApp Insight by saying NetApp is now emphasizing that successful digital transformation requires adherence to four core principles.
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Cloud, Storage
Major new Azure integration highlights NetApp cloud announcements
by Mark Cox •
NetApp is touting the new Azure NetApp Files as a huge extension of their Microsoft relationship, which gives them a level of integration with their Azure cloud that Microsoft has not done before with anyone. Other announcements include the General Availability of NetApp Cloud Insights, NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and new ONTAP support for NetApp HCI.
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Big Data, Data Centre, Internet of Things
Splunk enhances analytics scalability, allows separate scaling of compute and storage and enables LOB users in new platform release
by Mark Cox •
Splunk’s announcements at the outset of their Spunk .conf18 event include significant new updates of their Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud platforms
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Cloud
Hitachi Vantara enhances Hitachi Enterprise Cloud Container Platform with one-click Kubernetes capabilities
by Mark Cox •
Hitachi Vantara announces enhancements to their cloud vision, with new capabilities around Kubernetes in a multi-cloud environment through their HEC Container Platform.
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Cloud, Storage
Scality adds commercial version and new features to Zenko multi-cloud data controller in 1.0 release
by Mark Cox •
The new features include the addition of one-to-many replication capability to the Zenko data workflow engine, something that is valuable to the majority of cloud users who have more than one cloud.
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Cloud, Data Centre
Dell EMC channel needs to pay more attention to PKS: Chad Sakac
by Mark Cox •
Chad Sakac, Pivotal’s SVP Strategic Alliances, talks with ChannelBuzz about his new role, sorts out the Dell Technologies and Pivotal strategy around PKS, and explains why more of the channel needs to give PKS more attention.
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Cloud, Data Centre
Google commits to hybrid cloud vision with ‘truly revolutionary’ Cloud Services Platform
by Mark Cox •
At their Google Cloud Next 2018 event, in addition to their new platform, Google announced GKE On-Prem, a version of Google’s Google Kubernetes Engine for container management. They also announced Istio 1.0 is now available for production deployments, and the first service for it.
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Storage
Addition of InfoSight predictive analytics to HPE 3PAR highlights new 3PAR enhancements
by Mark Cox •
In addition to completing the full integration of the analytics capabilities HPE acquired last year with Nimble, HPE also expanded their tools and integrations to automate 3PAR in the cloud, DevOps, virtualization and container environments.
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Big Data, Cloud
Sumo Logic lights up Google Cloud Platform with expanded application, TensorFlow integrations
by Mark Cox •
The Sumo Logic expansion of their GCP capabilities brings their GCP support up to the same level as their support for AWS and Azure, making it easier for partners to effectively provide a full multi-cloud strategy.
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Cloud, Software
Morpheus Data adds new features to their cloud management and orchestration platform
by Mark Cox •
Morpheus Data, which sells entirely through channel partners, is particularly looking to expand in the MSP space.
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Channel Programs, Storage
Bare metal container platform provider Diamanti launches first channel program
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Networking, Virtualization
AppOrbit announces four major upgrades in Version 2.0 of integrated application platform
by Mark Cox •
The new AppOrbit capabilities include AppSwitch, which facilitates virtualized networking very close to the application and is fully programmable.
