Linux

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst
Cloud

Red Hat CEO rallies partners around OpenStack, OpenShift

April 8, 2015 Robert Dutt 1
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.

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

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

April 8, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Red Hat channel chief: Time to build an open source practice
“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.

Servers

SanDisk enhances solid state caching software, unveils new bundles

March 31, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on SanDisk enhances solid state caching software, unveils new bundles
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.

Storage

Scality simplifies RING 5.0 software installation to facilitate channel installs

March 25, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scality simplifies RING 5.0 software installation to facilitate channel installs
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.

Big Data

Qumulo breaks stealth with data-aware scale-out NAS

March 16, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Qumulo breaks stealth with data-aware scale-out NAS
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.

Virtualization

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

March 13, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on 3D apps, desktop Linux support among VMware Horizon 6 innovations
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.

Cloud

Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13

February 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13
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.

Servers

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

December 2, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP brings HP Integrity Superdome X and HP Integrity NonStop X to x86 servers
HP is looking for more partners to handle these mission-critical servers now that they are on the x86 platform, especially the Superdome X.

Virtualization

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

November 10, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on ViewSonic, Userful roll out first joint VDI product for low-cost markets
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.

Small Business

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

October 10, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on ViewSonic, Userful partner to offer hardware-software VDI bundle for economy market
Both companies see this bundled solution as a great way for PC-focused hardware partners to get into the VDI market.