Linux

Partnerships

New IGEL partnership key for Teradici as they move well beyond PCoIP protocol

February 7, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on New IGEL partnership key for Teradici as they move well beyond PCoIP protocol
Teradici, like IGEL, was originally a hardware company that transitioned into a software company as the market changed, and they are looking from big things from this, and other new partnerships as the company continues its focus on a multi-cloud strategy.

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Virtualization

IGEL states intention to be number one in endpoint management space in 24 months

February 6, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on IGEL states intention to be number one in endpoint management space in 24 months
IGEL North America CEO Jed Ayres stated what the company sees as its advantages in the current market, and also announced further signs of their growth, including the hiring of Steve Bell as their first VP of Global OEM Sales.

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Networking

Lenovo adds open source networking portfolio through new partnership with Cumulus Networks

December 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo adds open source networking portfolio through new partnership with Cumulus Networks
Lenovo is the last major infrastructure vendor to join the roster of Cumulus partners. They will offer three ThinkSystem RackSwitch models with support for Cumulus Linux out of the gate, with more coming in 2019.

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Cloud

IBM looks to preserve and enhance Red Hat commitment to channel going forward

October 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on IBM looks to preserve and enhance Red Hat commitment to channel going forward
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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Security

Bomgar to rebrand as BeyondTrust with acquisition of fellow PAM vendor

September 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Bomgar to rebrand as BeyondTrust with acquisition of fellow PAM vendor
The acquisition, their third this year, gives Bomgar a stronger presence in the midmarket and lower part of the enterprise, and will also upgrade their Canadian presence significantly.

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Virtualization

IGEL sees strong momentum in IDC report showing Linux thin client growth

August 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on IGEL sees strong momentum in IDC report showing Linux thin client growth
IGEL will be demonstrating their software-defined endpoint computing solutions around two events this week, at the Open Source Summit in Vancouver, and right next to VMworld in Las Vegas, with the latter being something of a guerilla operation.

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Partnerships

DH2i expands Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat relationships and adds new AWS and Docker partnerships

July 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on DH2i expands Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat relationships and adds new AWS and Docker partnerships
The expansion of the DH2i-Microsoft relationship is around Linux, while the DH2i partnership with VMware now covers VMware’s cloud solutions as well as on-prem.

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Channel Programs

Scale-out NAS vendor Rozo Systems aims to scale up its channel with first partner program

May 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale-out NAS vendor Rozo Systems aims to scale up its channel with first partner program
Rozo Systems, which has been based mainly in the media and entertainment vertical, sells entirely through a select partner channel. They are now looking to augment that channel, and to that end, have introduced their first partner program.

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Cloud

VMware expands NSX platform into Virtual Cloud Network portfolio

May 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on VMware expands NSX platform into Virtual Cloud Network portfolio
The new portfolio is largely an extension of existing NSX capabilities, but there are some new wrinkles, and VMware’s choice to lead the business unit may be particularly well-timed.

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Managed Services

MSPs will be able to add more services with new DH2i cross-platform capability in 17.5 software release

March 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on MSPs will be able to add more services with new DH2i cross-platform capability in 17.5 software release
The new release of the DH2i DxE software also provides automatic Windows/Linux failover for SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups, automatic Windows/Linux failover cluster on AWS and Azure, and management and orchestration of generic Linux services, including native open source databases, with automatic failover.

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Networking

Palo Alto Networks brings cloud management option, new UI to Traps endpoint protection

March 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks brings cloud management option, new UI to Traps endpoint protection
Traps has also been better integrated with the Palo Alto Networks Application Framework, something that is likely to please channel partners. So will the increased channel enablement around this Traps release.

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Cloud

Palo Alto Networks to enhance full range of protection for full range of public clouds

February 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks to enhance full range of protection for full range of public clouds
Improvements to Palo Alto Networks’ Next-Generation Security Platform will extend inline, API-based and host based are protections for all three major public clouds.

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Backup

Zerto launches multi-cloud resilience platform with Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0

February 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zerto launches multi-cloud resilience platform with Zerto Virtual Replication 6.0
ZVR 6.0 extends bi-directional replication that Zerto had introduced in their previous release. Another highlight of 6.0 is a new management portal for Cloud Service Providers.

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Backup

Veeam announces availability of major new flagship release

December 19, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veeam announces availability of major new flagship release
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.

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Storage

Panasas continues to move beyond HPC with next generation of scale-out NAS

November 8, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Panasas continues to move beyond HPC with next generation of scale-out NAS
The big breakthrough for Panasas here is the new ASD-100 disaggregated Director Blade, which allows metadata to be accessed twice as fast as the previous product generation.

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Channel Programs

ATADATA gets systematic about channel with new ATAconnect partner program

August 30, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on ATADATA gets systematic about channel with new ATAconnect partner program
ATADATA has always sold through the channel, but it has mainly been on an ad hoc basis. Now they are formalizing things with their first channel program, and are looking to add partners who are a good fit.

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Storage

DH2i adds Linux and Docker support to DxEnterprise v17 container management software

August 29, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on DH2i adds Linux and Docker support to DxEnterprise v17 container management software
DH2i becomes the only provider able to unify Windows and Linux in the same environment, and manage Docker containers regardless of the OS being used.

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Backup

Cohesity moves beyond backup with 5.0 platform release

August 1, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity moves beyond backup with 5.0 platform release
There are four main enhancements, one of which is the addition of file and object storage support to give the Cohesity platform an archiving capability as well as backup.

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Virtualization

NComputing relaunches VERDE with VERDE VDI 8.1 release

June 14, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on NComputing relaunches VERDE with VERDE VDI 8.1 release
Enhancements include IBM Bluemix support, which significantly strengthens VERDE as an MSP offering.

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