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New subscription-based model highlights new version of Veritas Backup Exec

November 14, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Veritas is hoping that many of its customers will move to its new subscription option, while also emphasizing that the new model’s simplicity will make life easier for partners.

HP personal systems president Ron Coughlin

HP says DaaS a channel-first strategy from the get-go

November 13, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

HP’s PC chief tells Varnex attendees the vendor will build its device-as-a-service business through the channel, outlines momentum for the model.

AppRiver makes first PSA integration, with ConnectWise Manage

November 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

AppRiver’s new Nautical platform provides the open APIs necessary for such integrations that their old platform lacked, and ConnectWise is the first provider for which they have built an integration.

Zebra targets new SMB markets with new TC20 Android enterprise smartphone

October 26, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The TC20 comes with feature functionality geared for SMB rather than enterprise, and a pricing model that eliminates the gulf between list and street prices that characterizes the enterprise mobility market.

Dell EMC announces upcoming availability of Azure Stack on 14G servers

October 19, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Dell EMC expects to be the first OEM to bring Azure Stack to market on next-generation servers, and believes this offering will be a particularly strong one for channel partners.

Tech Data looks to drive channel cloud analytics adoption with 30 Day Program

October 13, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The program, which Tech Data sees as a differentiator for them in the market, is designed to provide a repeatable cloud data migration and integration framework that will provide a proof of value in under 30 days.

NetApp extends Microsoft partnership with NFS service for Azure powered by NetApp

October 4, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

NetApp indicated no plans to extend this service capability to AWS, although from a functionality purpose it is the logical extension of this deal.

Dell EMC XC series upgrade with Avamar integration highlights Microsoft-focused news

September 27, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The XC series, which Dell EMC aims at the Microsoft hypervisor market, is also getting a new Azure Log Analytics Solution.

Scality expands S3 connectivity for Azure with Scality Connect offering

September 27, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Following up their multi-cloud theme which has been central to Scality’s vision since the announcement of Zenko this summer, Scality unveils a tool that lets apps for Amazon S3 support Microsoft Azure Blob Storage without having to be modified.