Other new elements, which will be formally announced next week, include an early trial for AFS backup and more efficient support for ROBO environments.
Essentials for Office 365 now provides a unified backup for Exchange, Sharepoint and Onedrive, all the major applications where content lives.
Ingram Micro Cloud has also launched a new Cloud Elevate program, in which Ingram partners who register as a partner in Ingram’s Cloud Marketplace by September 30th will receive free Ingram Micro-hosted solutions with $100 credit a month.
Nutanix believes the ability to offer public cloud capacity, together with a more powerful appliance, will make them the go-to vendor for any enterprise converged infrastructure project.
While much attention is being focused on the pending end of life of Windows XP, Microsoft is also discontinuing support for Exchange Server 2003.
HP’s new members of its Just Right IT lineup for SMBs include reference architectures for SAP HANA and Microsoft Exchange, as well as new services.
Hewlett-Packard introduces new small-business storage and a channel program to help VARs target SMB
Move gives a broader range of solution providers access to Microsoft’s easiest pay-as-you-go licensing model for hosted software offerings
Appliances aim to simplify data warehousing and messaging for customers and partners
