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Cloud

Red Hat CEO rallies partners around OpenStack, OpenShift

by Robert Dutt • April 8, 2015

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst tells troops there’s a massive shortage of skills to deliver OpenStack cloud solutions and the company’s OpenShift PaaS offering.

Red Hat channel chief: Time to build an open source practice

by Robert Dutt • April 8, 2015

Mark Enzweiler, senior vice president of global channel sales and alliances at Red Hat

“Don’t miss this wave,” Mark Enzweiler tells partners as Red Hat prepares to invest in helping partners sell open source as innovation, not commoditization.

SanDisk enhances solid state caching software, unveils new bundles

by Mark Cox • March 31, 2015

Nine separate bundles across the Windows, VMware and Linux platforms give SanDisk a broad range of “device+software” solutions for server-side solid-state caching.

Scality simplifies RING 5.0 software installation to facilitate channel installs

by Mark Cox • March 25, 2015

A reseller agreement announced last fall with HP led Scality to greatly simplify their software installation, which had previously required Scality to be involved because of the complexity.

Qumulo breaks stealth with data-aware scale-out NAS

by Mark Cox • March 16, 2015

Qumulo’s software, sold as 1U appliance nodes, integrates real-time data analytics directly into storage, to make data and storage resources much more visible. They sell only through the channel.

3D apps, desktop Linux support among VMware Horizon 6 innovations

by Mark Cox • March 13, 2015

VMware still trails Citrix in the virtual desktop space, and is trying to make up ground by emphasizing some of the new and enhanced features that are unique to Horizon 6.

Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13

by Mark Cox • February 10, 2015

The long-time cloud backup solution’s new features include Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service enablement, open infrastructure support for FreeBSD on ZFS and CentOS, and integration with Linear Tape File System for archiving.

HP brings HP Integrity Superdome X and HP Integrity NonStop X to x86 servers

by Mark Cox • December 2, 2014

HP is looking for more partners to handle these mission-critical servers now that they are on the x86 platform, especially the Superdome X.

ViewSonic, Userful roll out first joint VDI product for low-cost markets

by Mark Cox • November 10, 2014

ViewSonic and Calgary-based Userful announced last month that they would bundle Userful’s software and ViewSonic’s hardware into a VDI bundle, and now the first solution from this partnership has been announced.

ViewSonic, Userful partner to offer hardware-software VDI bundle for economy market

by Mark Cox • October 10, 2014

Both companies see this bundled solution as a great way for PC-focused hardware partners to get into the VDI market.

Permabit unveils appliance to let large storage OEMs strike back at hyperscale upstarts

by Mark Cox • September 16, 2014

Permabit’s SANblox appliance is the software vendor’s first hardware product, requested by the big storage OEMs to help them fend off competition from the new hyperscale vendors.

Storagecraft doubles down on management

by Robert Dutt • September 15, 2014

Matt Urmston, director of product management at Storagecraft

With its own control platform built out, and new hooks into key RMM vendors, Storagecraft is focused on management as it looks to larger customers.

Dell expands its open networking with VMware, Cumulus collaborations

by Mark Cox • August 25, 2014

The new Dell-VMware converged infrastructure solution is aimed at the mid-market, while the offering with Cumulus is targeted more at very large, Linux-savvy organizations.

Violin announces four new Windows Flash Array models with pay-as-you-grow pricing

by Mark Cox • July 15, 2014

Violin Memory builds out its Windows-centric all-flash storage lineup, ramps up recruiting of Microsoft VARs for what will be a major new business.

Dell unveils four new enterprise appliances

by Mark Cox • June 26, 2014

Sam Greenblatt, CTO of the Dell Enterprise Solutions Group.

Dell has introduced four new appliances, in partnership with Nutanix, Cloudera, Oracle and Fusion-IO.

HP announces $1B Helion cloud push around OpenStack

by Robert Dutt • May 8, 2014

HP Helion brand will include two OpenStack distributions, its CloudSystem converged infrastructure offering, a development platform and professional services.