Linux

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

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.

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

March 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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

February 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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

February 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

Veeam announces availability of major new flagship release

December 19, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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

November 8, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

ATADATA gets systematic about channel with new ATAconnect partner program

August 30, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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

August 29, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

Cohesity moves beyond backup with 5.0 platform release

August 1, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.